Position Summary:
The Project Engineer reports to the Manager, URD Design and is responsible for producing approved electrical designs for network reticulation systems in residential and industrial developments across Victoria.
As a Project Engineer you are required to produce electrical designs of the highest quality, in accordance with the agreed customer timeframe and budget. All electrical designs must comply with the relevant electrical distribution authority technical requirements as well as the applicable Australian Standards.
Proactive engagement with URD clients, distribution authority stakeholders and other internal and external stakeholders is a must, in order to identify and resolve issues impacting design, and to ensure that client expectations are managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Project Engineer’s are required to work in the office a minimum of three (3) days per week and foster teamwork and collaboration across the team’s portfolio of projects. As a member of the URD Design team you are required to lead by example and demonstrate the Powerplant values of People, Performance and Pride in everything that you do.
Strategy Alignment:
This position supports Powerplant’s vision to become ‘Australia’s leading power consultancy’ by supporting growth and exceptional project delivery in our core distribution design business.
Manage Safety
- Always comply with Powerplant’s HSEQ Policy and Procedures.
- Ensure the SiD (Safety in Design) risk assessment process is followed.
Manage Customers
- Provide the Customer with proactive communications and regular updates on:
- Project status
- Technical risks/issues
- Approvals
- Network authority review and approval progress
- Ensure our obligations to the customer are always defined, clear and understood.
- Attend Customer meetings and site visits, as required.
- Provide consistent and frequent updates to clients on the progress of their project(s).
Manage Technical Solution
- Obtain design approval from the relevant distribution network authority.
- Assume responsibility for the technical solution for the life of the project, from acceptance of the Fee Proposal to design approval.
- Initiate design review meetings with the PM/Detailer to identify and resolve potential construction risks prior to submission to the distribution network authority for approval.
- Review and submit design changes as required for the life of the project.
Manage Design Quality
- Always strive to achieve the highest level of design quality for every project.
- Ensure Powerplant’s quality assurance process is followed at all times.
- Review your own work and ensure it is of the highest standard.
- Support peer reviews and final reviews, as requested.
- Eradicate basic drafting errors and maximise first time pass for all URD designs.
- Maintain accountability for design non-conformances identified by electrical utility.
Manage Customer Schedule
- Maintain the project schedule in Wrike often, identify critical path schedule risks and implementing mitigation steps to maintain customer expectations.
- Maintain a Wrike dashboard to monitor project status for your projects as well a status overview of the URD portfolio of project obligations.
Deliver a Portfolio of URD Design Projects
- Support pre-sales and project initiation activities
- Review fee proposals (as required).
- Ensure the correct project metrics are initiated in Wrike (project timeline, budget and scope).
- Provide Project Support team with necessary information required for network applications, contracts, tenders.
- Support new client presentations and/or company promotions.
- Define the scope of work and/or concept plan to ensure each project is initiated with the correct technical approach.
- Regularly review project schedules, identifying risks and proactively undertake the necessary actions to eradicate schedule slippage.
- Monitor quality, ensuring the QA process is followed and all designs submitted are of the highest possible quality.
- Collaborate with the Engineering Services team to ensure design and drafting activities always support customer expectations and Powerplant values.
- Establish the project budget correctly in Wrike and maximise company cash flow by raising Progress and Final claims in a timely manner (not just EOM) and ensure Variations are raised, approved by the client and invoiced in a timely manner.
- Support the ongoing professional development of design and drafting staff to continuously improve their URD technical knowledge.
Essential Requirements
- Degree qualified in electrical engineering.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in developing electrical designs for distribution network authority approval, up to 22kV.
- Demonstrated experience in the use of electronic design systems including network GIS systems.
- A solid grasp of the project management discipline, capable of demonstrating the ability to simultaneously manage safety, scope, quality, schedule, and cost, for a given project.
Personal Attributes
- Good stakeholder communication and management skills.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Well organised with effective time management skills
- Self-motivated and the willingness to operate autonomously at times as well as a team leader.
- Reliable accountable and assertive in your support of the broader team outcomes.
Please submit your application via the link below only:
Electrical Project Engineer – URD Design Job in Hallam, Melbourne VIC – SEEK
