Senior Project Engineer

Senior Project Engineer – Permanent Full Time– Perth CBD

Join us as a Senior Project Engineer and make a real impact shaping the future of Western Australia’s energy network. This is your chance to lead ambitious projects, drive innovation and safety, and guide a talented team of professionals in a role that’s vital to powering our community’s growth.

Your Role in Action

Effectively manage safety-in-design risk to as low as reasonably practicable, through the active use of safety-in-design principles and practices and in line with Western Power’s Electricity Network Safety Management System

Lead, from a technical perspective, engineering professionals to provide a coordinated design service

Accountable for ensuring that project scope is fit-for-purpose; negotiate, set, and monitor design project performance (cost, quality, time, risk, resources)

Manage design regulatory and legislative compliance, reporting non-compliances where necessary

Relentlessly drive continuous improvement, utilisation of standard designs (and updating thereof) to achieve sustained delivered value, while seamlessly contributing to the overall business

Manage own performance to improve personal effectiveness, while proactively providing technical guidance and coaching to design engineers

Where design work is outsourced, undertake contract management of outsourced design contractors against established frameworks. Identify contractor technical areas for improvement and contribute to development and coaching of design contractors

What Makes You a Great Fit

A degree in an engineering discipline

Eligibility for corporate membership of the Institution of Engineers Australia

Extensive and broad engineering experience and expertise, preferably in electricity transmission design in an electricity utility or design consulting environment

Project management experience in a utility, design consulting, or industrial environment

Sound understanding of the interactions of related disciplines impacting on transmission substation and lines design, including civil/structural issues, environmental issues, and safety issues.

Experience of best practice project management and work management processes

Demonstrated technical leadership and technical coaching experience.

Sound understanding of risk management and its application to safety-in-design

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.

On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.

22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 23 December 2025

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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