Principal Electrical Engineer - Secondary Systems

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Drive excellence in Australia’s energy networks. As a Principal Electrical Engineer – Secondary Systems at AECOM in Sydney, you’ll lead the design, delivery, and innovation of protection and control systems across transmission and distribution projects. This is your opportunity to guide project teams, shape technical standards, and make a tangible impact on the nation’s critical energy infrastructure. Please note, this role can be based in Sydney, Perth or Brisbane.

How you’ll make a difference:

• Provide technical leadership across secondary systems projects, ensuring protection and control designs meet Australian Standards, client requirements, and industry best practice.
• Lead project delivery from concept through detailed design, including design reviews, specifications, calculations, report writing, and relay configurations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including transmission, distribution, renewables, traction power, and building services engineers, to deliver innovative and technically outstanding solutions.
• Build and maintain client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor on secondary systems matters and ensuring high-quality communication and service.
• Support business growth and innovation, contributing to bids, proposals, and knowledge sharing to enhance AECOM’s profile and technical capability in the energy sector.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

The qualities that help you thrive:

• Extensive experience in secondary systems engineering, ideally 10+ years delivering protection, control, and SCADA projects in transmission and distribution networks.
• Deep technical expertise, including protection and control design, relay configuration, substation secondary systems, and compliance with Australian Standards.
• Proven project leadership ability, with experience managing multidisciplinary teams, project budgets, and timelines in a consultancy environment.
• Strong client engagement and communication skills, with the ability to advise, influence, and maintain long-term client relationships.
• Relevant qualifications, such as a degree in Electrical Engineering, RPEV registration (or eligibility), and familiarity with Transmission Network Service Providers or large-scale utility projects.

Why you’ll love working with us:

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options.
• Up to 22 weeks parental leave, 2 weeks paid partner leave and up to 12 weeks paid alternative primary carer leave.
• Annual professional membership cover.
• Corporate health insurance discount, free annual flu vaccinations and skin checks.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know. 

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.  

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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 $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. 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.