Principal Electrical Engineer

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Eg is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to join its NZ team with options for Wellington, Christchurch or Auckland, on site and full time. As a global firm delivering end-to-end design to operation, Egis works on energy, water and city infrastructure and collaborates across ANZ. You’ll lead electrical network design in Transmission or Distribution, support substation development and asset upgrades, and contribute to master planning and business cases while helping grow NZ energy offerings and coordinating with the Australian TD team, with proficiency in AutoCAD and Revit as well as NEARA and PLS CADD. Ideal candidates have 15+ years in energy, a Washington Accord degree, Chartered status, and substations or distribution experience, plus strong communication and travel flexibility. Benefits include flexible work, development support, parental leave and cross-border opportunities. Apply now.

Company Description

Egis is a global organisation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. With our head office based in Paris, we offer global career opportunities, as well as rewarding careers for our people locally. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we create innovative solutions with our clients worldwide.

Egis is an organisation with the capacity to make meaningful industry and community change in the space of place-making, sustainability and creating connected cities. Different to other engineering firms, Egis offers true end-to-end capability across the entire design-to-operation lifecycle, offering advisory, architecture, engineering, design, asset management and operations services.  

We are committed to creating great teams doing innovative work and would love you to join us to Impact the Future.

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled Principal Electrical Engineer to join our growing team - role can be based in Wellington or Christchurch or Auckland - New Zealand.

Working with us means that you’ll bring your technical design capabilities to work on exciting and complex projects that are shaping the energy market across the ANZ region. We work with key clients in electrical distribution and transmission space and with opportunities to support our Australian Energy team, you’ll contribute to projects nationally and internally.

In this role you will provide technical expertise and leadership in the assessment and strategic planning of water supply and sewerage networks to manage growth, compliance, network performance, and renewals. Your work will include master planning, options assessments, feasibility studies, and business case preparation, while supporting the growth of the team through active business development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Detailed design of electrical networks. This could be in either Transmission or Distribution.
• Ensure engineering calculations, studies, and technical assessments are completed to a high standard to support substation development, asset upgrades and replacements, and distributed generation connections
• Developing and maintaining AutoCAD and Revit models for substation layouts, equipment arrangements, and associated building services.
• Project scoping, estimating and ability to support on-going project management and delivery.
• Collaborating in a team environment, while learning to work efficiently and autonomously on allocated tasks.
• Proactively working with our Australian team of over 100 T&D engineers to deliver high quality work for our clients and local multidisciplinary teams to support a whole of project delivery.
• Helping to support and grow the NZ Energy offering reporting to the Director for Energy to help steer strategy, business needs and staff requirements.

Qualifications

About You

You are a recognised industry professional with a strong background within the Energy industry in Aotearoa. You’re looking for the next step in your carer and are keen to join a high performing team and ambitious, growing business.

Ideally you'll bring:

• Tertiary qualifications in Electrical Engineering (Washington Accord mandatory)
• Chartered Status (CPEng, RPEQ or equivalent)
• 15+ years of experience
• Experience in Substation or Transmission Lines or Distribution
• Demonstrated experience in delivering overhead or underground distribution network designs
• Network of clients/contacts within the industry
• Proficiency with using design programs such as AutoCAD, Revit, NEARA, PLS CADD or similar is essential.
• Effective communication skills with ability to work with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to travel as required

Additional Information

The Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements, including remote working options and full-time or part-time working hours.
• Competitive remuneration
• Purchased additional annual leave.
• A structured learning and development framework to align with career progression goals and dedicated individual training / conference allowances.
• An inclusive team culture that celebrates performance and rewards accordingly.
• Paid Primary and Secondary Carer Leave Policy, reflecting our commitment to work-life balance.
• Support structures like our Employee Assistance Program, professional mentoring, and buddy program for new starters.
• Opportunities to work on special interest projects.
• Opportunities to work across government, private and resource sectors.
• Opportunities to travel for work across multiple offices.
• Great cultural environment where teamwork and camaraderie are promoted and valued.
• Supportive leadership based on openness.

We are open to considering this role on a full-time, part-time or job-share basis. Please let us know of your flexibility requirements.

Egis is committed to creating an inclusive, creative culture that embraces diversity and flexibility. We offer generous parental leave, support flexible work practices and strive to create an environment where employees can connect, collaborate, grow and succeed.

Apply Now!