Protection Engineer – Design / Senior | Major HV Network

Talesca; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work flexibility

Job summary

Talesca in Sydney seeks an Electrical Design Engineer with high-voltage protection and metering design experience to join a major transmission network. You will contribute to protection design across new connections, upgrades and asset replacements.

You'll work within a secondary systems team, delivering protection schemes, relay configurations and design documentation while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Practical experience in high-voltage protection or secondary systems design.
• Experience across transmission, distribution, generation, renewables or major electrical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• HV substation protection and metering design.
• Protection schemes for transmission and connection projects.
• Protection philosophies, schematics and engineering calculations.
• Numerical protection relay selection, configuration and settings.
• Power system analysis for HV protection.
• New customer connections and modifications to existing network assets.
• Network augmentation, remediation and asset replacement projects.
• Preparation of technical specifications and design documentation.
• Supporting commissioning teams and resolving site issues.
• Fault investigations and technical analysis.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary design, construction and commissioning teams.

Skills

HV protection design

Protection schemes

Numerical protection relays

Power system analysis

HV substation protection

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Electrical Design Engineer – Protection & Metering

High Voltage Transmission | Secondary Systems | Sydney

This is an opportunity for an Electrical Engineer with high-voltage protection design experience to join a major Australian electricity transmission network and work across a significant pipeline of critical infrastructure projects.

We are looking for engineers from established Design Engineer through to experienced Intermediate level, with practical experience designing protection and secondary systems for high-voltage substations.

You could currently be working within a transmission or distribution utility, engineering consultancy, EPC contractor, renewable energy developer, generation business or major electrical infrastructure environment.

The opportunity

Working as part of an established secondary systems engineering team, you will contribute to the design and delivery of protection and metering systems across new connections, network upgrades, asset replacement, remediation and major transmission projects.

Depending on your level of experience, you could be producing designs with support from senior engineers or taking greater ownership of complete design packages, technical interfaces and engineering deliverables.

The role can include:

• HV substation protection and metering design
• Protection schemes for transmission and connection projects
• Protection philosophies, schematics and engineering calculations
• Numerical protection relay selection, configuration and settings
• Power system analysis associated with HV protection
• New customer connections and modifications to existing network assets
• Network augmentation, remediation and asset replacement projects
• Preparation of technical specifications and design documentation
• Supporting commissioning teams and resolving site-based technical issues
• Fault investigations and technical analysis
• Working with multidisciplinary design, construction and commissioning teams

For more experienced engineers, there is also the opportunity to take ownership of larger design packages, review engineering work, coordinate external consultants, guide developing engineers and contribute to engineering standards and technical improvements.

About you

You will ideally hold a degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent and have practical experience in high-voltage protection or secondary systems design. We are particularly interested in engineers who have worked across transmission, distribution, generation, renewables, substations or major electrical infrastructure. You do not need to already be a design approver, technical authority or standards owner. Likewise, candidates coming from commissioning or testing backgrounds can be considered where they can demonstrate genuine engineering design experience alongside their site exposure.

The key requirement is a solid technical foundation in HV protection design and the ability to continue developing within a highly experienced engineering environment.

Why consider it?

Hybrid and flexible working arrangements give you genuine flexibility around where and how you work, alongside the opportunity to build your career within a large, technically sophisticated energy infrastructure environment. You'll also have access to ongoing technical training and professional development, workplace mentoring, tertiary study support, 20 weeks' paid parental leave, Fitness Passport, corporate retail/travel/wellbeing discounts and salary packaging options.

You’ll be working directly within one of Australia’s major electricity networks at a time of significant investment in transmission infrastructure, renewable connections and network development.

It offers exposure to technically complex HV projects, an experienced secondary systems team and the opportunity to build deeper capability across protection design, network connections, engineering governance and major project delivery.