Principal Electrical Engineer

• We deliver the world’s most complex projects.
• Work as part of a collaborative and inclusive team .
• Enjoy a varied & challenging role.

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.

Right now, we’re bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation. Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

The Role

As a Principal Electrical Engineer with Worley, you will work closely with our existing team to deliver projects for our clients while continuing to develop your skills and experience etc.

• Assists business development activities by facilitating the maintenance of personal profiles and resumes, tracking existing capabilities, and strategically addressing future customer capability requirements. Encourages positive working relationships with external parties such as the customer, suppliers, and contractors. May be involved in networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost savings efforts. Maintains pricing records reflecting the effort to complete discipline activities. Supports proposals by developing the discipline execution strategy, estimating and reviewing costs, writing proposal content, and presenting to customers. May be called upon to lead part or all of a proposal.

• May participate in budgeting and manages discipline operations to the budget. Controls discipline staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures. Creates and maintains discipline guidelines. Ensures mentoring/training requirements are met. Manages the employee performance review process. Facilitates coverage of activities when people leave the team. Contributes to dispute resolution efforts. Ensures discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.

• Owns discipline technical competency and quality programs and oversees technical competency of those within the discipline. Ensures team member adherence to company processes, generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications. Supports global standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates and oversees use by the team. Assures the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful. Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence. Appoints senior "known and trusted" team members to conduct checking and perform technical peer reviews and manages the execution of them.

• Facilitates meeting project requirements through the use of discipline guidelines, programs, and management of the resources allocated to projects. May participate in project execution strategy and planning. Drives innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. May work with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Reviews and authorizes work done by direct reports.

• Makes discipline management decisions under the general direction of the Location Manager of Engineering or Discipline Manager. Manages discipline resource mobilization and demobilization to maintain sufficient resourcing and ensure cost effectiveness. Accountable for the performance of the team, discipline risks, and driving continuous improvement. May be responsible for discipline planning, budgeting, and approval of expenditures. Implements approved discipline programs in accordance with budget and company policy.

• Works with self-initiated interaction with supervisor and self-initiated technical guidance. Influence over duties. Receives administrative direction based on organization policies and objectives. Work is reviewed to ensure conformity with policy and for coordination of other company departments

• Plans, coordinates, assigns and reviews the activities of a drafting / design unit engaged in a full range of drafting / design work within a given discipline. Outlines assignments, reviews work progress and checks and approves completed work.

About You

To be considered for this role it is envisaged you will possess the following attributes:

• Awarded a 2 or 3 year technical diploma with discipline specific training or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Will have a strong technical background in discipline work. Trained in leadership and project execution. Will be actively licensed with a local governing body where required by law.

• Training in risk management or quality is preferred.

• Typically has 12+ years of relevant discipline experience and 3+ years in project leadership. Has a strong background in discipline work, and a competent understanding of regulations, codes, manufacturing standards, and industry standard practices. Well versed in discipline setup, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project closeout. Skilled in estimating project costs and writing proposal content

• Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.

• Seasoned ability to inform and persuade on complex matters comes from recognition as subject matter expert. Utilized on the most complex, confidential and difficult problems.

• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint. Can navigate intranet pages, conduct searches, and retrieve information. Can organize information from many sources and retain as per the prescribed format and policies. Has functional awareness of discipline tools. Aware of the interrelationship of tools within the discipline, analytics and modelling, and cross-discipline data centric methods.

• Ability for hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements. Drive Safe and Sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL. Role-model a commitment to personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health, safety and environmental performance.

• Ability to Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.

• Ability to enjoys working in a small high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, able to prioritise workloads and help other team members to achieve team goals.

• Ability to achieve results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity. Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is "right the first time.”

• Ability to deal with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.

Moving forward together

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.