Principal Engineer

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Western Power is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership across our transmission network. This is a pivotal role – enabling the connection of renewable energy, influencing engineering direction, driving network innovation, and ensuring the day-to-day reliability and security of the energy systems millions of Western Australians depend upon.

With broad scope and impact, you’ll set the standards, policies, and technical criteria that guide how our critical infrastructure is operated and accessed.

Your Role in Action

• Provide high level subject matter expertise engineering advice and guidance for short term network security, reliability, capacity and constraint management (operating the networks within limits).
• Set strategy, develop and approve Network Operations policies and standards for managing the operation of the transmi...