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About the role

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Engineer with a Network Strategic Planning focus to join our Network Planning and Development team. Ideally, this role will be based within Essential Energy’s Northern NSW planning area footprint. This Northern NSW planning footprint extends from Bulahdelah to Tweed Heads, and out through regional NSW to Cobar.

As our Senior Engineer for Network Strategic Planning, you will join an experienced, capable and supportive team that is at the forefront of shaping the network into what it needs to be for the future. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with our other Senior Engineering specialist and Network Planners, solve emerging and traditional network issues, implement new technologies, provide leadership for your focus area of strategic planning and see your decisions turn into real world solutions for the network and our customers.

Key responsibilities include developing consistent processes, templates, and policies, and supporting our Planners to produce high-quality strategic plans and business cases within required timeframes. In addition, the roles is responsible for providing leadership in strategic planning within the Network Planning team, including:

• Champion and promote innovative, strategic thinking to support the energy transition, optimise the network and enable energy solutions of the future, maximise the value and utilisation of the network, and meet our customer’s needs
• Develop and implement well defined processes, policy, guidelines and tools for the execution of network strategic planning and continually manage the regular review and updating of network strategic plans
• Lead workshops with team members and stakeholders to ensure that our strategic planning activities meets their needs, and that the content of the strategic plans covers the broad topics required for best practice strategic thinking whilst also enabling others to understand our future plans for the network so that they can be in a more informed position to make well aligned, consistent, and optimal decisions
• Develop a template that forms the basis for our strategic plans that achieves professionally presented, well structured, complete, and useful documents for both internal and external audiences
• Provide expert guidance and support to Network Planners during their network strategy reviews
• Provide expert guidance and support in the development of high level internal and external documents for strategic programs and projects
• Establish and manage the required information sources so that the Network Planners have ready access to consistent, relevant information for their network strategy reviews
• Peer review of reports, data and modelling related to strategic planning
  

About You

The following attributes are considered highly desirable for success in this role:

• Extensive experience at a senior engineer level as a Network Planner
• A complete understanding of Distribution and Subtransmission networks
• Able to produce examples of high quality strategic plans that you have completed in previous roles
• Advanced skills in network modelling, and a sound understanding of network forecasting
• High level, professional report writing skills with examples that you can produce
• A future thinking mindset that embraces technology, renewables, and a customer mindset whilst also driving productivity and meeting agreed targets
• Demonstrated problem solving and decision making skills with the ability to manage diverse and complex issues
• Demonstrated ability to manage implementation and monitoring outcomes of enterprise required audits and provide reports with recommended improvements
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to deliver technical services in a professional, collaborative and timely manner
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering to satisfy Professional Membership criterion of Engineers Australia or other Professional Body as aligned to the Washington Accord
• Drivers licence
• WorkCover NSW Construction Induction Certificate
  

Desirable

• Level 3 Restricted Zone Substation access.

Why Essential Energy

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas, Optus, nib and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visit our employee benefits page for more information.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

An energy network doesn’t just keep the lights on… it’s a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.

It requires innovation, commitment, and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.

Your potential will be realised, and you’ll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today.

For further information please contact Scott Taylor, Planning Manager on 0421 559 541.

Applications close on Sunday 16 November at 11:55pm    

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As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees. 

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