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UGL’S Utilities team designs, constructs and maintains critical infrastructure across the power, water and renewable sectors. Ranging from HV Substations and Transmission Lines up to 500kV to power stations and wastewater treatment plants. We design and construct the following assets; substations, transmission lines, power generation, electrical distribution networks, water and waste water treatment plants and water pipelines.
Our Utilities team works hard and celebrates successes and efforts. If you are looking for a bright future and opportunity to grow your career, then join UGL – a great place to work!
UGL is currently looking for an experienced Senior Electrical Designer (Primary Systems) to become a key member of the Power Utilities teams based in Sydney/Brisbane or Melbourne. You will lead and deliver quality, standard compliant engineering documentation and responsible for the production of design deliverables under direction from senior engineering staff.
About the Role
· Reporting to the Principal Electrical Design Engineer (Primary Systems), Team Lead Engineer (Primary Systems) will be responsible but not limited to:
o To prepare engineering documentation as directed
o To apply established engineering principles and standards in the design and preparation of drawings
o To ensure drawings are comprehensively set out and fully dimensioned with reasonable tolerances to facilitate effective construction or manufacture using normally available equipment and processes
o To prepare drawings to budgeted hours and timeframes as directed
o To perform basic engineering design calculations to facilitate accuracy of detail designs
o To ensure that engineering documentation is effectively identified and filed
o To check the drawings prepared by the other draftspersons
o To prepare material take offs from drawings as required
o Monitors budgets and schedule for the areas under their control.
Job Purpose
· Provide conceptual and detailed design of HV Substations up to 500kV for major utilities and renewables projects including BESS, solar and wind farms and also providing support on Transmission Line projects.
Key areas of substation design:
· Substation Configuration and Busbar Config (Single, double, 1.5CB scheme, etc …)
· Plant layouts, sections, and details
· Busbars and Connections (Fittings, Busbar Selection (Rigid, Strung), S/C Forces, Gantry forces, Sags/ Tension/ Deflection, Arrangement)
· Clearances and Layouts (Safety, Fire, Transportation and Maintenance)
· Underground Services (Trenches/ Conduits/Cable routes capacity)
· Earthing services (Main Grid/Tails)
· Transformer/Reactor Bund design and details
· Understanding of HV equipment/Buildings specification and technical particulars.
About You
Qualifications:
· Relevant Tertiary Qualification, Diploma status in engineering
· Construction Safety Awareness Training
Skills & Experience Required:
You will have minimum 10 years of proven skills in problem solving and effective communication, the
ability to meet established deadlines and have experience with Microsoft Office whilst demonstrating:
· Legally able to work in the country in which the position is based
· Experience of working in a project coordination role for CAD/BIM applications
· Excellent communications skills both written and verbal
· Excellent organisational skills
· Able to manage sensitive and sometimes confidential information
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