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Principal Primary Engineer

Perth, Western Australia💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical design and supervision for high-voltage (HV) substations, transmission lines, and renewable energy projects including BESS, solar, and wind farms.

Role type

Principal Electrical Engineer (HV & Transmission)

Builds

HV substations, transmission lines, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), solar farms, and wind farms

Domain

Power Systems / High Voltage Engineering / Renewable Energy

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

HV cable design, earthing design, lightning protection, insulation coordination, EMF analysis, lighting design, substation configuration, busbar schemes, transposition, impedance calculation, electrical clearances, noise studies, corona studies, LFI studies, BESS integration, solar/wind farm integration, civil/structural interface understanding

Preferred skills

Site experience during construction and commissioning of HV substations, secondary design for HV plants, solar, and wind farms

Technologies

Cymcap, CDEGS (MALZ/MALT/SESshield), EMTP, CDEGS (FCDIST, RESAP, HIFREQ, SPLITS), PVsyst

Responsibilities

Supervise and provide technical leadership for professional engineers, plan and coordinate work of technical staff, develop detailed designs for HV assets, create technical specifications, mentor engineers, monitor budgets and schedules, resolve complex engineering challenges, conduct detailed studies (insulation coordination, lightning protection)

Seniority

Principal, technical leadership & mentorship

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