Senior Traction Power Engineer

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Department: Electrical Engineering

Work Location: onsite

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Working closely with our Discipline Leads, you will play a key role in delivering national projects within the Rail Traction Power sector. You’ll lead project teams and provide technical expertise, support, and guidance to junior engineers, helping to build their knowledge and capabilities. This role is integral to supporting the growth of the team from within, while ensuring high-quality outcomes on significant national projects. You will also receive ongoing support and training to further develop your skills and advance your career.

• Preparing and delivering complex designs, reports, proposals and presentations to clients in the following areas: 
  • AC and DC traction substation system design including preparation of single line diagrams, layouts, circuit diagrams, earthing and bonding schematics, and coordination of the design with communication, civil, structural and mechanical design disciplines
  • AC and DC traction power system studies including  equipment sizing, fault calculations and  insulation coordination studies 
  • Coordination of the traction power system with overhead wiring and signalling system design 
  • Lightning protection system design
  • Earthing system analysis and design including pipeline LFI studies 
  • Earthing, bonding and electrolysis assessment and design
  • AC and DC traction protection systems analysis, setting, specification and design 
• Manage the delivery of specialised components of projects, advising on the most effective team to achieve this.
• Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design
• Leading and mentoring upcoming team members
• Provide technical expertise and overview to client and stakeholders and to assist clients through technical decision-making and provide alternative options/solutions if there are changes to project parameters.
• Liaising with the Project Manager and the client to keep informed of all developments associated with the project

• Tertiary qualification in electrical/power engineering, preferably chartered engineering and RPEQ status;
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills including a working knowledge of MS Office; 
• Highly regarded skills include: 
  • Experience in a design consultancy role 
  • Demonstrated ability to lead the design teams and and deliver traction design packages
  • The experience of working with traction power system modelling software tools.
  • The ability to develop earthing and induction models in CDEGS earthing system software is desirable
  • HV substation design, Protection system design, Power system studies
  • The ability to develop traction power system models in ETAP or equivalent software tool.
  • The ability to develop transient studies in ATP/PSCAD/EMTP
  • The ability to develop EMC management plans and manage the EMC management procedure.
  • The ability to develop maintenance strategies and procedures, commissioning plans and documentation

Note: Not all these skills above are expected and training will be given to develop these.