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Principal Electrical Engineer

Requisition ID: 275433 

  • Relocation Authorized: None 
  • Telework Type: Part-Time Telework 
  • Work Location: Brisbane, QLD 

 

Bechtel Mining and Metals has an opportunity for an electrical engineering professional with proven capabilities to join the team as Principal Electrical Engineer, based in Brisbane.  This position is an opportunity for an electrical engineer with strong experience and is now looking for the next stage of growth in both a technical and team leadership roles.

  

What We Offer:

There are many reasons why choosing to join Bechtel is one of the best career decisions you will ever make. In addition to working with talented, dedicated people and having the opportunity to play an integral role in stimulating and challenging local and international projects, Bechtel is committed to offering employees the benefits and resources to live healthy lives. With a market aligned salary package and annual discretionary performance bonus scheme in place, employee wellbeing is also at the centre of our business - promoted through our strong health and safety focus and private health cover including access to a leading employee assistance program.

 

Essential Job Duties:

As Principal Electrical Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across Mining and Metals projects, leading a small team of Engineers and Designers in the production of deliverables according to departmental procedures, codes and standards, design guides, appropriate software and administrative practices.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Produce electrical calculations and power system studies per Bechtel and client requirements, utilizing industry standard modelling programs (ETAP, DIgSILENT, PSCAD etc.)
  • Lead the formulation of engineering concepts during preliminary design phases and present these to client.
  • Optimize system design to meet production targets such as maximum capacity, operating schedule, availability, and utilization with minimum energy
  • Assist and contribute to the preparation of and reviews discipline estimates, discipline work plans, budgets and schedules.
  • Conduct or lead special or unique studies requiring unconventional or novel approaches or research techniques, using all available guides and precedents and expands and develops where these contain critical gaps.
  • Serve as a consultant to projects providing advice on assignments having unique features.
  • Other responsibilities as designated.

 

Qualifications and Skills:

  • The role will require knowledge of bulk material handling systems for large mining operations in industries such as Bauxite, Iron, Copper or battery metals, and / or other heavy industry such as the oil and gas business. 
  • Degree in Electrical Engineering, or a professional license in an appropriate discipline from a recognized licensing board, to meet job requirements is essential. Higher qualifications in the same or related discipline would be highly regarded.
  • Experience in the execution of Basic/Conceptual Engineering, FEED, EPCM, EPC modes of execution of mining and minerals projects and should have at least some experience in the following areas:
    • High Voltage system specification and design
    • Low Voltage system specification and design
    • Large rotating synchronous machines
    • Industrial power systems study and analysis
    • Start-up, field engineering or plant operation in large industrial plants, utilities or process plants is desirable.
  • Knowledge of systems engineering, calculations, applications, construction methods and materials.
  • Good working knowledge of industry and regulatory standards such as MSHA, OSHA, ISO, DIN etc
  • Has the capability to develop procedures and design criteria/guides and demonstrated knowledge of computer aided engineering (CAE) tools to perform calculations.
  • Experience with High Voltage reticulation, power systems analysis and large rotating electrical machines will be well regarded.

 

Working Rights in Australia without employer sponsorship are required.

 

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Why Choose Bechtel?

At Bechtel, we know that people like you deliver our customers’ projects—projects with a purpose that create a lasting positive legacy in the communities where we live and work. Just as we are committed to helping our customers achieve their visions, we are committed to offering the best people in the industry—people like you—with rewarding, challenging, and flexible long-term careers. People like you are needed on projects that create jobs and grow economies; improve the resiliency of the world's infrastructure; connect communities to resources and opportunities; get us closer to net zero; tackle critical environmental challenges to protect people and the planet; and accelerate progress to make the world a cleaner, greener, safer place.

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Shaping tomorrow together

Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we’ve completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through five global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; Mining & Metals; and Manufacturing & Technology. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live.  
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Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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