What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Engineer position at Western Power?
We are currently seeking a Senior Project Engineer to join our Engineering & Design team on a max-term or permanent basis. This is an immediate opportunity, with the potential for additional positions in the near future within this area.
Be part of an innovative and dynamic team driving exciting projects that focus on customer decarbonisation. As a Senior Project Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, cost-effective designs while using integrated, optimised engineering and project management techniques. Your expertise will help ensure efficient project execution and advance Western Power’s commitment to sustainability and innovation.
Your Role in Action
- Effectively manage safety-in-design risk to as low as reasonably practicable, through the active use of safety-in-design principles and practices and in line with Western Power’s Electricity Network Safety Management System.
- Lead, from a technical perspective, engineering professionals to provide a coordinated design service.
- Accountable for ensuring that project scope is fit-for-purpose; negotiate, set, and monitor design project performance (cost, quality, time, risk, resources).
- Manage design regulatory and legislative compliance, reporting non-compliances where necessary.
- Relentlessly drive continuous improvement, utilisation of standard designs (and updating thereof) to achieve sustained delivered value, while seamlessly contributing to the overall business.
- Manage own performance to improve personal effectiveness, while proactively providing technical guidance and coaching to design engineers.
- Where design work is outsourced, undertake contract management of outsourced design contractors against established frameworks. Identify contractor technical areas for improvement and contribute to development and coaching of design contractors.
What Makes You a Great Fit
By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations.
You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including :
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