Senior Electrical Engineer
- Join our fun and inclusive team of professionals
- Learn from a world-leading engineering and project delivery company
- Enjoy a site-based role to obtain valuable real world experience and progress your career
- Eligible employees may access valuable Remote Area salary packaging benefits, helping you make more of your income
About The Job
Build a rewarding career while enjoying the benefits of regional living. Join our growing Portland team and support our customer, Alcoa, delivering engineering solutions across a complex and dynamic industrial environment. You'll have the opportunity to develop your expertise, work alongside experienced professionals, and contribute to meaningful outcomes, all while enjoying the lifestyle advantages of Victoria's stunning southwest coast. With potential regional tax incentives and salary packaging benefits available for eligible permanent employees, there's never been a better time to take your career further in Portland.
Who We Are
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.
We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their asset portfolios. We solve complex problems by finding integrated, data-centric solutions from the first stages of engineering and consulting through to installation and commissioning.
Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.
What You'll Do
As part of our Portland team, you'll work closely with Alcoa to deliver practical engineering solutions across a complex industrial environment, helping to improve plant performance, reliability and asset integrity.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver discipline specific engineering services that meet Worley, the client’s and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Undertake engineering design and technical verification of discipline project deliverables by others (within your technical capability).
- Ensure a ‘fit for purpose’ solution from concept through to as built is developed considering safe and sustainable design, constructability, commissioning phases, operability, maintainability and decommissioning.
- Proactively seek an understanding of the safety hazards and risks associated with the asset lifecycle of the designed product, plant or structure; be responsible for action and close out where relevant.
- Identify issues and problems; develop appropriate and innovative solutions; and ask for assistance if required.
- Prepare engineering estimates for the electrical discipline in response to requests for quotation including:
- scoping engineering requirements.
- detail methodologies and/or engineering tasks in scope and those out of scope.
- clarify and detail assumptions, exclusions, relied upon information and the deliverables list.
- input into the schedule incorporating a realistic delivery sequence for the discipline with consideration to project milestones; input from other disciplines and receival of relied upon information.
- Actively contribute to the development and improvement of Worley engineering systems, processes, practices, and procedures.
In a project lead capacity (where relevant):
- Manage sequence of engineering tasks at a high level to ensure delivery according to project schedules (including activities by third party contractors).
- Be the primary interface with customer for discipline-specific engineering issues.
- Ensure technical integrity of the discipline deliverables through the implementation of checking and design review activities.
- Provide technical direction, control and supervision for engineering and design on the project.
- Responsible for delivering discipline design deliverables within schedule and budget.
- Coordinate change control and technical query process within the discipline.
- Manage discipline resources assigned to the project; this also includes providing active feedback to individuals.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact at one of Australia's largest industrial operations while developing your career in a collaborative and supportive team environment.
What You'll Bring
- Tertiary qualifications with a bachelor’s degree in engineering majoring in Electrical Power or Electrical Engineering.
- Technical experience in the Refinery/Smelter/Mining or similar industry; including experience leading projects on a discipline level.
- Extensive experience in brownfield electrical systems modification detailed design and knowledge of instrumentation and control system interfaces.
- Excellent understanding of Australian electrical standards.
- Hazardous Area Accreditation (desirable) and/or Functional Safety TUV Certification (beneficial)
Why You Should Apply
Work locally on nationally significant industrial assets and projects.
Join a supportive multidisciplinary team with access to broader global expertise.
Develop your career through varied work, mentoring and direct exposure to clients and operating facilities.
Enjoy a regional lifestyle without stepping away from complex engineering challenges.
Build trusted relationships and see your engineering solutions progress into construction and operation.
Access potential regional tax incentives and salary packaging benefits available to eligible permanent employees.
Moving forward together
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.
We’re building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.
Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.