Senior Engineer - Generation & Storage

Aecom; Sydney; Remote; AUD 89,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Additional annual leave

Volunteer leave

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Generation and Storage team. You will apply engineering skills across wind, solar, battery storage, and hybrid projects for diverse clients, developing technical solutions and guiding project delivery end‑to‑end.

You will work across stages from prefeasibility to commissioning, mentor graduates, and help maintain high standards of quality, safety and client satisfaction in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience on renewable energy projects across wind, solar or battery storage.
• Electrical engineering qualification with knowledge of electrical balance of plant (AC/DC) and project interfaces.
• Ability to plan and complete detailed engineering, technical advisory and design work packages.
• Strong communication and ability to coordinate multidisciplinary inputs.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering reviews, designs, calculations and technical advisory tasks.
• Support delivery through verification tasks within technical standards and processes.
• Raise design discrepancies and contribute to problem solving in a collaborative team.
• Mentor early career engineers and develop their technical abilities.
• Contribute to delivery excellence while upholding quality and client satisfaction.

Skills

Electrical Engineer

Renewable energy

Project delivery

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Chartered Engineer (desirable)

Job description

About AECOM

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Company Culture & Sharing

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Job Description

Grow your career in this Senior Engineering role within AECOM's Generation and Storage team. You will be applying and building your engineering abilities across a rapidly evolving sector covering utility-scale wind, solar, battery storage (BESS) and hybrid projects for a variety of clients, asset owners and developers. This role and project variety will provide the opportunity to develop your technical and project delivery abilities while also learning from AECOM's technical leaders.

You will also be working across project stages, preparing documentation, designs and engineering inputs across the project life cycle. Depending on the project, you may get involved in prefeasibility studies, concept design, technical studies for planning approvals, development of Principal's requirements, tender evaluation, detailed design reviews on Owners Engineer (OE) engagements, construction phase support (including quality assurance), and commissioning phase activities. The common thread is helping to communicate complex technical concepts and solutions, in a simple and easy to understand way for a variety of stakeholders. The fast paced and innovative nature of projects will suit a Senior Engineer looking to make a difference across major and complex projects where understanding client needs, balancing engineering concepts, and problem solving to ensure technical and project delivery excellence.

Key role responsibilities include:

• Provide and complete engineering reviews, designs, calculations and technical advisory tasks, meeting project technical requirements.
• Supporting project delivery excellence through arranging technical verification tasks are completed, working within AECOM's technical standards and processes.
• Raising design discrepancies and contributing to problem solving, within a collaborative team environment.
• Work with the current local team to help mentor graduate and early-stage career engineers, developing their technical and project abilities.
• Contributing to delivery excellence maintaining AECOM's high standards of quality, safety, digital innovation and client satisfaction.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will be an experienced Electrical Engineer with a track record of working across various project types in the Renewable and Electrical sector. You will be known for your ability to support delivery of projects, working collaboratively in teams, with a project and client-first focus.

Experience across a variety of renewable projects (ideally a mix of wind, solar and battery, with hybrid experience highly regarded) will be important for success in this role. Having exposure to working across different project types, site requirements, and geographies at utility scale will be an advantage. While the majority of our projects are on utility-scale projects, we also work on commercial and industrial scale solar and BESS projects, so this experience is also valuable.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don't tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role.

• 5+ years of demonstrated engineering experience working on renewable energy projects across a range of technologies and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), with experience during construction and commissioning highly regarded.
• Electrical engineering or renewable energy related engineering qualification, with a developed knowledge of electrical balance of plant systems (AC and DC), equipment and project interfaces.
• Ability to own, plan and complete detailed engineering, technical advisory and design work packages. This can span across technical reviews, site inspections, reports, modelling or calculations and coordinating workshops, gaining technical input and verification as required.
• An ability to proactively problem solve, identify discrepancies, and work within agreed client timelines, scopes and budgets independently.
• Strong communication skills and ability to confidently coordinate multidisciplinary inputs, as the Generation and Storage team is often required to play an integration role on Owner's Engineering and technical advisory engagements.
• Either registered, or working towards professional registration, on the National Engineering Register in Australia (such as RPEV or RPEQ) ideally supported by a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) designation or equivalent international accreditation.
• Displays a passion to grow their technical, engineering, and electrical knowledge learning from others, as well as providing hands-on guidance to other engineers.

Additional Information

Why you'll love working with us

• Flexible work arrangements available, aligned with the market and client facing role requirements
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
• Volunteer and representation leave
• Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

Work Details

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