About us:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. United Energy (UE) is an essential service, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity across the east and south-east of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula, vital for our customers and a clean energy future.
In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. Using advanced analytics, knowledge built through years of practical expertise, partnerships with leading researchers, and the courage to experiment, our people are proud to be disruptive influencers amongst the electricity industry.
Increasingly, our networks are connecting new large-scale renewable energy generators and integrating technologies like solar, batteries and electric vehicles as customers change the way they generate, use, store and share power. This demand is transforming the electricity market faster than any change we’ve ever seen before. As a result, our people are at the frontline in developing and implementing innovative technologies and solutions necessary for the future of our industry not only in Victoria but globally.
About the Role:
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Engineer to join our team in a part time capacity. In this role you be part of a larger team and be supported to make your mark.
Working alongside other Engineers, this role plans for our customers energy future by preparing the networks for growth in Customer Energy Resources. You will have a key focus on a proactive response to maintain high levels of customer power quality and ensures that emerging constraints affecting our customers network experience are economically addressed.
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please submit your application and reach out to our team!
What you’ll deliver:
- Undertake detailed analysis of the current and forecast impacts of Solar PV, Electric Vehicles and demand growth on network performance and power quality, as well as preparing planning reports, strategies, and policy documents to improve our customers network experience
- Develop prudent and efficient investments to benefit our customers and business
- Perform power system simulations using analysis software, and analyse results from power quality monitoring equipment to diagnose emerging power quality issues
- Engineering leadership and continuous improvement to ensure you are ready for a fast paced energy future.
About you:
To succeed in this role you’ll have:
- A Bachelor qualification in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
- Solid working experience in the area of Asset Management or similar
- Additional qualifications or studies in advanced power system simulation and analysis software, in particular PSS SINCAL would be advantageous.
- An understanding of technical impacts of Customer Energy Resources (Solar PV, Electric Vehicles, batteries) on customer power quality
- Electricity supply industry experience and the ability to analyse, design and deliver solutions to the business applying engineering principles
- A team player that strives on continuous improvement initiatives, who enjoys and can effectively communication, and stakeholder management skills.
We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.
With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.
If you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every box, or would like to discuss a different or flexible way of working, please still get in touch with us at careers@powercor.com.au.
Please submit your application by COB Wednesday 10th May 2023.
The successful candidate will be required to hold, or be capable of gaining (within a set period of time), registration with a Victorian Business Licensing Authority as a Professional Engineer in the field of Electrical Engineering
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