Transmission Line Engineer

Beca; Wellington; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Transmission Line Engineer, where your engineering expertise will help reshape power networks for a sustainable future. You'll work on diverse projects that connect renewable energy sites and enhance infrastructure resilience. With a supportive team and access to industry leaders, you'll develop your skills in a dynamic environment. This role offers significant opportunities for professional growth, allowing you to influence project delivery while making a real-world impact in the energy sector. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to learn, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Collaborative Work Environment

Access to Industry Experts

Flexible Working Arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in transmission line projects is essential.
• Strong engineering background with problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with clients and team members.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver transmission line projects across Australia and New Zealand.
• Collaborate with engineers and clients to meet project requirements.
• Investigate and assess structural capacities and electrical clearances.

Skills

Transmission Line Engineering

Problem Solving

Project Delivery

Design Skills

Client Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

PLS-CADD

Job description

Transmission Line Engineer (Te Whanganui-a-tara)

• Apply and develop your civil, structural, mechanical or electrical engineering, design, project delivery and technical capabilities within the Energy and Transmission Line sectors making a real-world difference building electrical transmission line assets
• Broad engineering role, working across projects of different scales, client types, and geographic typographies across both Australia and New Zealand
• Scope to build your career in a range of pathways including niche transmission line disciplines, engineering capability, design, or project delivery with a passionate team focused on your professional development

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

Apply your transmission line, civil, structural, electrical, and mechanical related engineering abilities within a team that investigate, scope, design, and deliver transmission line projects. You will be key in delivering large scale, complex, varied, and unique transmission line related projects throughout Australia and New Zealand. Helping to reshape the power and energy networks to enable decarbonisation through the move to renewable energy.

You will be learning from a vast range of Beca Power technical and subject matter experts, with the scope to contribute as well as to develop your particular domain and subject matter experience. While being based in Wanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, you will be part of a highly diverse and supportive team, with global experience from our technical and project delivery leaders, senior engineers and newly joined graduates.

Each project will have unique design requirements, topography, scale, and client types. You'll tackle various design tasks with team support, considering structural loads, site conditions, extreme weather, and geotechnical factors. Problem-solving and collaborative design solutions will be key aspects of your role. Experience with design tools, especially PLS-CADD, is advantageous.

Projects range from connecting renewable energy sites to upgrading networks for resilience. You'll be involved from feasibility to maintenance, investigating electrical clearances, assessing structural capacities, and creating mitigation plans. This role enhances your power and energy sector expertise, including health and safety standards, supporting your professional growth.

You'll gain on-the-job design experience working on projects across Australia and New Zealand, leading to future career opportunities in technical power and transmission engineering, project management, consulting, and client relationship management. Support for professional development with industry bodies is provided.

At Beca, you'll learn from top professionals and contribute your ideas. Access to a multidisciplinary business allows you to leverage technical expertise for complex transmission line projects. You'll influence project delivery, with opportunities to develop consulting skills, project management, and technical expertise, including industry accreditation.

Learn more about Beca’s transmission line capability and projects via these links:

https://www.beca.com/what-we-do/projects/power-and-energy/bunnythorpe-haywards-transmission-line-reconductoring

https://www.beca.com/what-we-do/projects/power-and-energy/queensland-new-south-wales-interconnector-upgrade

Ko wai koe | About you

Our Transmission Line Engineers come from a range of engineering backgrounds, united by their passion to make a real-world difference through their engineering, design, problem solving and project delivery skills. Joining this team will allow you to bring your engineering abilities to understand client project requirements, analyse and problem solve, as well as your ability to support the design of solutions delivering transmission projects. You will have the curiosity mindset and skills to research and validate data, drawings, site photos and maps, as well as the ability to interpret these with on-site visits. While you will have plenty of scope for success in this role, you will also have the awareness to know your limits, especially knowing when to seek input to validate and confirm your design assumptions such as from Beca’s Transmission sector technical experts, or through other sources.

To be successful in this role, you will have previous engineering experience with an understanding of the transmission line sector and projects being an advantage. While we have plenty of scope to develop your skills, this role won’t suit a person starting their career such as at a graduate level. This experience could be from a range of roles, such as working in a consulting environment on Transmission Line projects, within an asset owner in the transmission sector, or similar related roles such as with large industrial sites.

You will also be a relationship builder, able to work with other engineers collaboratively on projects, as well as with our clients. You will enjoy ‘picking up the phone’ as an approach to connect with clients, especially to problem solve on project site-specific design issues. You will also be passionate about learning from others, ready to listen, engage, support, and positively query situations with a focus on great project outcomes. We also like to have fun along the way, so a good sense of humour will hold you in good stead. This position will provide you with wide exposure and create opportunities for career and professional development across the Beca business, both locally and across Australasia.

We welcome and invite applicants from diverse backgrounds, recognising the civil, structural, mechanical and/or electrical engineering specifically in transmission line design, project, and delivery aspects this role covers.

About Beca’s Power & Energy Business

Beca’s Power business operates as a truly combined Asia Pacific business, with teams based in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Indonesia collaborating to scope, design, procure and build assets for the Power and Energy related sectors. Our range of Technical, client and business leaders, bring a vast range of experience and knowledge to support the rapidly evolving Power and Energy sector with expertise across Power Generation, Transmission, Primary, Secondary, Protection and project delivery. Our teams keep high value and critical power infrastructure assets operating, as well as delivering new technologies and innovative smart grids, intelligent power networks and supporting renewable and virtual power plants. Further details available here: https://www.beca.com/ignite-your-thinking/in-focus/energy.

Ko wai mātou | About us

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. After a century of operation, we have grown from a family-owned business to one of the most progressive, client-centric professional services consultancies in our region. We have more than 4,000 employees in 25 offices around the world and have delivered projects in more than 70 countries.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships and use our skills and systems to empower innovation; helping our clients shape communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations. Find out more about us at www.beca.com.

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