Lead HV Substation Engineer — Mentor & Drive Innovation

Syscon; Newcastle; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Syscon, part of the Borg Group, seeks a Lead Electrical Engineer to provide technical leadership across HV substations and customer connection projects. You will oversee primary, secondary and protection system designs, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence.

This role focuses on safe, compliant, innovative solutions across a diverse HV portfolio, with responsibilities spanning design reviews, stakeholder engagement, and contributing to tenders and project delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical/Power) accredited by Engineers Australia.
• Extensive HV primary, secondary and protection systems design experience for substations and/or HV customer connection projects.
• Strong knowledge of primary plant selection and layout, protection philosophies, relay coordination, fault studies, arc flash assessments, CT zone application, AS 2067, IEC 61850 and HV design standards.
• Experience preparing technical designs, managing submissions and obtaining approvals from network authorities, clients and other stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience configuring protection relays using SEL, ABB or Siemens platforms, and supporting testing, commissioning and energisation.
• Demonstrated leadership with ability to mentor engineers and designers across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of HV primary, secondary and protection designs for substations and customer connections.
• Act as the technical authority across projects, reviewing calculations, specs, drawings and deliverables.
• Manage submissions and approvals with network authorities, clients and project teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and designers.
• Support tenders, estimating, commissioning and energisation activities, plus risk management.
• Drive standards, design processes and quality systems to meet Australian standards.

Skills

HV systems design

Protection systems design

Substations

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Relay coordination

AS 2067

IEC 61850

DNP3

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical/Power) accredited by Engineers Australia

Tools

SEL AcSELerator

ABB CAP 505/531

Siemens DIGSI

Job description

Syscon, part of the Borg Group, seeks a Lead Electrical Engineer to provide technical leadership across HV substations and customer connection projects. You will oversee primary, secondary and protection system designs, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence.

This role focuses on safe, compliant, innovative solutions across a diverse HV portfolio, with responsibilities spanning design reviews, stakeholder engagement, and contributing to tenders and project delivery.