Beca's Power team delivers innovative solutions across transmission, distribution, renewable energy, industrial, rail, water and airport infrastructure projects throughout Australia and New Zealand. Together, we're helping shape the future of energy across the region.
The Opportunity
Beca's Power team is seeking an experienced Principal Primary Engineer to provide technical leadership across transmission, distribution, renewable energy and infrastructure projects throughout Australia and New Zealand.
As a recognised technical expert, you'll help shape some of the region's most significant energy projects while influencing technical strategy, supporting business growth and developing the next generation of engineering leaders. This role combines deep technical expertise with client engagement, project leadership and industry influence.
In this role, you'll:
- Provide technical leadership, design assurance and governance across major transmission, distribution, renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients and project teams, developing innovative, practical and commercially sound engineering solutions.
- Lead the review and approval of complex engineering deliverables, ensuring quality, safety and technical excellence.
- Support business growth through client engagement, major pursuits, industry involvement and mentoring technical teams.
About You
You're a highly respected engineering professional known for your technical expertise, leadership and ability to build strong client relationships. You enjoy solving complex challenges, influencing outcomes and helping others succeed.
You'll bring:
- Extensive experience delivering transmission, distribution and renewable energy projects, with strong expertise in high-voltage primary substation engineering.
- Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams, providing technical governance and delivering complex engineering outcomes.
- Strong client engagement, stakeholder management and business development capability.
- Excellent communication skills, commercial awareness and a passion for mentoring and developing others.
- Experience in areas such as primary systems design, equipment specification, Safety in Design, constructability reviews, utility standards, and renewable energy or grid connection projects.
What We Offer
A career with Beca will provide you with:
- Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.
- Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work. You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.
- Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.
- Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.
Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.
Ready to make the move? / Apply now
If you want to make every day better, apply online today!
Skills Required
- Extensive experience delivering transmission, distribution, and renewable energy projects
- Strong expertise in high-voltage primary substation engineering
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams
- Experience providing technical governance and delivering complex engineering outcomes
- Strong client engagement, stakeholder management, and business development capability
- Excellent communication skills
- Commercial awareness
- Experience mentoring and developing technical professionals
- Experience with primary systems design
- Experience with equipment specification
- Experience with Safety in Design
- Experience with constructability reviews
- Experience with utility standards
- Experience with renewable energy or grid connection projects
Beca Group Limited Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Beca Group Limited and has not been reviewed or approved by Beca Group Limited.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave options include wellbeing leave, volunteer leave, enhanced compassionate leave, and family‑friendly parental leave layered on top of annual leave. These programs are positioned as core benefits, with specifics varying by country.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include an Employee Assistance Program, wellness initiatives, and employee‑led affinity groups, with some locations also offering gym discounts and similar perks. Flexible working arrangements are emphasized as part of the overall wellbeing approach.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee ownership with a broad shareholding base and a long‑running share scheme provides potential long‑term value and alignment for eligible employees. Participation depends on eligibility and tenure, so the impact varies by individual.
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What We Do
Beca is one of the largest employee-owned professional services consultancy firms in the Asia-Pacific region, providing engineering, design, and advisory services to help clients optimize assets and infrastructure.
