Beca Looking for Senior Protection Engineer at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

• Senior High Voltage Protection Engineer role delivering conceptual and detailed HV protection system designs for power generation, transmission, distribution, industrial and building services clients across New Zealand and Australia
• Career development opportunities enabling you to broaden your project, technical, industry and engineering capability.
• Learn from and lead others in a collaborative team environment for an industry-leading power engineering business.

Te kāinga rua |

The opportunity

With a strong pipeline of work, our team is growing. We are on design panels for three major transmission utilities in Australia and New Zealand and have a significant backlog of protection systems work.

We undertake protection system studies and relay settings design for high voltage installations up to 500 kV; and we have a growing portfolio of projects assisting solar developers to integrate new renewable generation assets into transmission and distribution networks.

We also value career development at Beca and have established a robust framework to help you own and steer your career. This includes one-on-one coaching from protection system Technical Directors, and support to define and pursue a bespoke technical development plan.

Key Tasks Include

• Lead HV protection systems designs producing high-quality protection settings and studies for HV substation projects across New Zealand and Australia.
• Accountability for financial and programme outcomes on projects and work packages you are leading
• Carrying out quality checks and procedures
• Developing your own technical expertise to support the delivery of high-quality technical advice to our client
• Lead teams of engineers to undertake packages of work, including training and mentoring junior staff
• Work collaboratively with project managers, secondary and other engineers, the client, and installation contractors as required.
• Contribute and drive delivery excellence across the Power team

Te rongoā | About you

Your protection design engineering skills are based on solid fundamentals and have been proven through leading the delivery of robust and innovative engineering design solutions on projects. You will have experience delivering high voltage protection settings and studies with the ability to leverage your experience and technical capability. You will be a problem-solving senior protection engineer with 8+ years’ experience delivering concept and detailed designs for generation, transmission, distribution, industrial and/or building services clients. You will be comfortable collaborating with and leveraging others’ technical knowledge, to deliver conceptual and detailed designs on projects of all sizes.

You will be motivated to learn and grow, learning from the best in the industry. You will enjoy working in dynamic and busy teams where you are known for your enthusiasm, energy, outcome focus and for your excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Previous experience of working in a team environment is a must for this role, along with the ability to manage and support multiple tasks.

Preferably, you will have capability across a range of the following areas:

• Relay & Instrumentation Diagrams – ability to develop relay & instrumentation diagrams to illustrate protection concept for generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial/commercial clients.
• Relay settings design – applying client and industry standards to deliver selective and accurate protection relay settings
• Lead/mentor junior protection engineers to deliver a complete protection design packages on-time and within budget.
• Wide area protection studies in New Zealand
• Short circuit and load flow studies using DigSilent Powerfactory software
• Have a good understanding of New Zealand and Australian HV Power design and regulations, policies and procedures and client standards
• Understand the key technical aspects of projects, implementation, and integration for complex systems
• Be organised, adaptable and able to think outside the box
• Have good interpersonal skills and manage stakeholder relationships
• Strong communicator who can explain complex issues to a range of stakeholders (internal and external)
• Be results-oriented with good technical engineering basis in either generation, transmission, distribution, or rail traction power and managing project delivery
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering, ideally with a BE(Electrical) or equivalent. CP.ENG will be an advantage

Te pakihi mana | The power business

Our Power team operate throughout Australasia on high-voltage power generation, transmission, and distribution projects as well as infrastructure and industrial projects in Airport, Water and Transport markets. We’ve honed our skills over many years providing solutions to our power generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial clients across Australasia. To learn more about our Power business, refer to: https://www.beca.com/powerteam .

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Ko wai mātou | About us

Beca is one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design, and engineering consultancies. We are an employee owned business with a team of 3,300-plus people who brings a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

While our experience has been 102 years in the making, it’s the fresh talent we’re nurturing, the innovative thinking we’re developing and the connections that we’re forging that gets us most excited for the future. Learn more at www.beca.com.