Engineering Team Leader – Permanent Full Time – Perth CBD
Lead a specialist team responsible for long‑term network strategy standards, and high‑level technical direction. This role plays a key part in shaping Western Power’s future, operating in a complex environment with competing priorities and uncertainty. Ideal for a hands‑on, technically strong leader with strategic planning experience in utilities or large enterprises, strong stakeholder skills, and the ability to guide teams through ambiguity to deliver outcomes.
Your Role in Action
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing team of transmission planning engineers.
- Perform forecast & network requirements.
- Develop the business plan.
- Provide technical leadership on transmission planning standards, methodologies, and strategic frameworks.
- Develop and maintain a detailed short to medium term (up to 10 years) Transmission System Plan in line with the Network Management Plan considering both Asset and Growth drivers.
- Ensure planning studies comply with regulatory obligations, internal standards, and industry best practice.
- Deliver timely, accessible and accurate long term planning advice to key stakeholders (internal and external).
- Develop Network strategies to ensure consistency with long term development plans and the network investment strategy.
- Effectively lead and manage the transmission standards and strategy planning teams.
- Ensures alignment between technical needs and economic and regulatory requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement in planning tools, processes, and analytical capability.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Degree qualification in Engineering (Electrical)
- Eligibility to CPEng status by Engineers Australia
- Highly developed written, verbal and presentation communication skills
- Extensive understanding of network utility regulation and the requirements this places on justification and development of transmission & distribution projects.
- Proven track record of effective management and leadership of planning teams
- Proven track record of delivering robust transmission/distribution plans and project justifications
- Knowledge of regulatory process, arrangements and legislation, as well as Market and technical rules.
- Valid WA Driver’s license Class ‘C’ or ‘C-A’.
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:
- Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
- Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
- The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
- Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
- An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
- An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
- In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
- Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.
- 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.
Applications close on 9 April 2026
We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.
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