Senior Electrical Designer
Fyfe is a multi-disciplinary consultancy providing comprehensive engineering, environmental, planning and surveying services throughout Australia. Fyfe work with a wide range of clients in the Energy & Resources and Property & Infrastructure sectors to provide high quality, commercially pragmatic solutions with a strong focus on client service and delivery.
About the role
Our Energy and Resources Division works with major energy developers to deliver large-scale Wind, Solar, BESS and HV substation projects across the country. These include greenfield developments for new energy infrastructure and brownfield projects involving the expansion, upgrade and augmentation of existing facilities.
There is an opportunity to work across a diverse range of projects and technical disciplines. In the renewable energy sector, typical projects include Electrical Balance of Plant (EBOP) for large wind farms, solar farms and BESS developments, including HV substation primary design, earthing design, protection and control interfaces, cable reticulation, grid connection infrastructure and utility coordination.
The role will also involve the design and delivery of HV infrastructure including transmission and distribution substations, switchyards, underground and overhead HV reticulation systems, and associated studies such as load flow, short circuit, arc flash, insulation coordination and earthing assessments in accordance with relevant Australian and international standards detailed further below.
Skills & experience
We are looking for an experienced qualified Senior Electrical Designer with 8+ years' experience within a design consultancy working in the renewable energy, onshore gas, or power industries.
- Prepare detailed electrical design documentation for HV substation and utility
infrastructure projects.
- Develop primary design deliverables including general arrangements, equipment
layouts, cable routing, earthing layouts, conduit layouts, and associated detailed
design drawings.
- Support the preparation and coordination of design packages in accordance with
project requirements and delivery schedules.
- Assist engineers and project teams with design development and drawing
production activities.๏ปฟ
- You have experience in the delivery of electrical engineering design within a design consultancy.
- You are experienced in undertaking LV and HV power generation and distribution systems design and equipment selection such as circuit breakers, transformers, PFC etc.
- You are fluent in using software such as Etap, EMTP or PS CAD for electrical systems modelling.
- You are experienced in HV and LV power system studies including but not limited to load flow, short circuit, fault loop impedance, cable sizing, arc flash, discrimination and protection, TRV and EMT transient analysis earthing and harmonics.
- Producing electrical drawings such as single line diagrams, schematic diagrams and cable block diagrams comes as second nature.
- High Voltage V & Low Voltage Switchboard design experience as per AS 61439 and familiarity with Instrumentation and control systems are an advantage.
- You have practical working knowledge of relevant Australian Standards such as AS 2067, IEEE 80, AS/NZS 1768, AS 3000, AS 3008, IEEE 1584, NFPA 70.
Requirements:
- Tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering
- 8+ years relevant experience for a design consultancy
- High Voltage substation experience - MicroStation and AutoCAD
- Previous exposure to Australian projects
- Diverse experience including experience on Energy projects
- Proven experience in design, analysis, and delivery of electrical works in energy projects (renewables, transmission, substations, hydrogen, oil & gas, or power generation).
- Strong knowledge of Australian Standards, codes, and regulations
- High level communication, interpersonal and team management skills
- Advanced time management, planning and organisational skills
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