Lead Secondary & Protection Engineer

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Well-being benefits

Global giving & volunteering program

Job summary

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is seeking an experienced Secondary & Protection Engineer to join our Auckland team and contribute to the delivery of transmission and distribution projects across New Zealand and the APAC region.

In this role you will work across projects up to 500kV, delivering protection and control engineering packages, developing schemes, settings and logic, and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure project success.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in secondary systems, protection and control engineering within the transmission and/or distribution sector.
• Experience designing protection, metering and control schemes for high-voltage power systems.
• Experience with protection studies, relay coordination, protection settings and logic configurations.
• Knowledge of substation control and communication systems, including IEC 61850.
• Experience producing, checking or reviewing technical engineering deliverables.
• Ability to contribute to or lead engineering activities across multidisciplinary projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide secondary, protection and control engineering expertise across projects up to 500kV.
• Lead and deliver secondary, protection and control engineering packages.
• Develop protection, metering and control schemes, including protection settings, coordination studies and logic configurations.
• Produce and review single-line diagrams, panel layouts, interface schedules, I/O lists, interlocking and inter-tripping schemes.
• Apply IEC 61850 principles and substation communication standards to project solutions.
• Undertake technical reviews and provide checking, reviewing and approval of engineering deliverables.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed project teams.

Skills

Secondary systems

Protection engineering

Power systems

IEC 61850

Relay coordination

Project delivery

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Jacobs’ Energy & Power team is looking for an experienced Secondary & Protection Engineer to join our Auckland team and contribute to the delivery of transmission and distribution projects across New Zealand and the wider APAC region.

This is an opportunity to take a technical role across complex power projects, working with multidisciplinary teams and specialists across Jacobs’ regional and global network. You’ll combine hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, project delivery and the development of other engineers.

Your impact

• Working across transmission and distribution projects up to 500kV, you’ll provide secondary, protection and control engineering expertise throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead and deliver secondary, protection and control engineering packages across transmission and distribution projects.
• Develop protection, metering and control schemes, including protection settings, coordination studies and logic configurations.
• Produce and review single-line diagrams, panel layouts, interface schedules, I/O lists, interlocking and inter-tripping schemes.
• Apply IEC 61850 principles and substation communication standards to project solutions.
• Undertake technical reviews and provide checking, reviewing and approval of engineering deliverables.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed project teams.

Here’s what you’ll need

We’re interested in hearing from experienced power engineers who can bring technical capability together with effective project and stakeholder abilities. We're looking for:

Demonstrated experience in secondary systems, protection and control engineering within the transmission and/or distribution sector.

Experience designing protection, metering and control schemes for high-voltage power systems.

Experience with protection studies, relay coordination, protection settings and logic configurations.

Knowledge of substation control and communication systems, including IEC 61850.

Experience producing, checking or reviewing technical engineering deliverables.

Ability to contribute to or lead engineering activities across multidisciplinary projects.

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With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs here .

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of diverse perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging. Find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here .

Our meticulously curated employee benefits support ALL employees throughout every stage of life. From paid parental leave to a lifetime financial allowance for you and your partner to access family forming Fertility & IVF treatment, adoption, and surrogacy assistance along with menopause and Low T treatment.

We are steadfast in our commitment to the wellbeing of you and your loved ones with a comprehensive suite of wellbeing resources supporting you physically, emotionally and financially. This is demonstrated in our company being recognised by WGEA for 12 consecutive years as an employer of choice for gender equality along with our industry leading GOLD employer status by the Australian Workplace Equality Index.

Cultural Support:

Māori and Pasifika peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Jacobs aims to provide cultural safety at our interviews. Māori and Pasifika people are invited to nominate a Whanau, family or cultural representative to participate on the interview panel; please let your recruiter know in your application. No matter what drives you, you'll discover a way to cultivate, nurture and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support .