Group Lead, Transmission Structures & Lines Engineering

AusNet Services Ltd; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AusNet Services Ltd in Victoria seeks a Group Leader, Structural/Lines Engineering based in Southbank with hybrid work (three days in office, two from home). You will lead a multidisciplinary technical team and guide the development of customer and company transmission projects.

You’ll oversee technical due diligence, assess scope, cost, schedule, risk and constructability, and support informed investment and delivery decisions across substations, lines and related infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Electrical, Civil or Mechanical Engineering.
• Extensive experience in substation or lines engineering, project delivery and/or design.
• Strong civil knowledge.
• Strong understanding of regulatory environment AusNet operates within.
• Proven project team leadership skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to identify, assess, and manage project risks, opportunities, assumptions and cost drivers.
• Ability to develop, update and implement engineering standards.
• Ability to build and grow relationships across divisions within AusNet and with external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to a team of project engineers with specialist civil, structural and transmission lines knowledge across AusNet’s transmission networks.
• Review technical requirements on each scope/project including constraints and deliverables.
• Review brownfield and greenfield substation and lines designs, addressing staging, constructability, operability, maintainability and safety in design (civil, structural and transmission lines).
• Apply engineering knowledge to deliver efficient solutions on complex design projects.
• Serve as a reference point for technical issues and provide guidance to the team.
• Identify opportunities to develop/update engineering standards and deliverables.

Skills

Team leadership

Civil knowledge

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Education

Electrical, Civil or Mechanical Engineering

Job description

AusNet Services Ltd in Victoria seeks a Group Leader, Structural/Lines Engineering based in Southbank with hybrid work (three days in office, two from home). You will lead a multidisciplinary technical team and guide the development of customer and company transmission projects.

You’ll oversee technical due diligence, assess scope, cost, schedule, risk and constructability, and support informed investment and delivery decisions across substations, lines and related infrastructure.