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Associate Director – Electrical Engineer, Generation & Storage | Energy

AECOM
Sydney, AUS
Full-time
Director · 12+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Come and grow with us.

AECOM’s Energy practice provides a wide range of advisory, consulting and engineering design services to power and renewable energy clients. Our understanding of the wider energy system - the interconnection between generation, transmission and distribution, storage, and demand - enables us to deliver integrated solutions that support the transformation of next-generation energy infrastructure.

Our approach across Australia and New Zealand to collaborate across technical, design and delivery disciplines enables us to bring capability that is best for project across diverse teams, as well as providing rewarding career pathways based throughout our network of AECOM offices.

Actively leveraging our global network, we bring together multidisciplinary teams of engineers, planners and project managers to support major transmission and renewable energy projects shaping the future grid.

Everyone belongs at AECOM

We’re committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging - because great ideas come from diverse perspectives. AECOM is proud to be a Fortune 500 Most Admired Company, a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, # Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards 2025 Winner and an AWEI Bronze Tier LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience (12+ years) designing and leading medium-voltage electrical systems, typically at 11 kV to 33 kV, across concept, preliminary and detailed design stages.
  • Demonstrated cable-system design capability, including ampacity and derating, voltage drop, short-circuit withstand, screen and sheath arrangements, earthing, routing and cable schedules.
  • Proficiency in DIgSILENT PowerFactory, with experience undertaking and reviewing load-flow, fault-level, voltage, reactive-power, harmonic or related power-system studies.
  • Strong understanding of transformer and switchgear specification, including transformer rating, impedance, vector group, tapping, losses, earthing and equipment-duty requirements.
  • Experience developing or reviewing protection and control philosophies, protection grading, relay settings or interfaces, and commissioning requirements.
  • Ability to prepare and review high-quality electrical calculations, reports, drawings, specifications, datasheets, schedules, tender documentation and design-review comments.
  • Strong client engagement and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and explain complex electrical matters clearly and practically.
  • Either registered, or working towards professional registration, on the National Engineering Register in Australia (such as RPEV or RPEQ), ideally supported by Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or equivalent international accreditation.
  • A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a closely related power-engineering discipline.
  • Experience in engineering consulting, design and construction, EPC contracting, utilities or complex industrial projects; renewable energy experience is highly regarded but not required.

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