Senior Engineer Power Systems | Adelaide | Monday to Friday Roster
Australia
About BHP
At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.
Come and be a part of this success.
About the Role
This position reports to the Lead Electrical Engineer within BHP's Technical Engineering / Engineering Copper SA team, providing expertise in Power Systems (LV & HV) to support the operations and project teams. This job posting demonstrates BHP's focus on electrical safety and technical excellence at their Copper SA operations, particularly emphasizing the critical role of power systems engineering in their safety programs.
You will be based at our Adelaide office on a Monday to Friday roster, with occassional site travel required.
Key Responsibilities
The role involves comprehensive power systems engineering duties including:
- Power System Analysis and Design: Load flow, fault levels, contingency, stability and optimisation analysis, harmonics analysis, and arc flash hazard assessment for both AC and DC systems
- Network Management: Developing and maintaining power systems network models and protection settings
- Testing and Commissioning: Developing test and commissioning plans for factory and site acceptance testing of protection and control equipment using proprietary equipment such as Omicron/Doble
- Standards Development: Creating policies, procedures, and standards governing high voltage and low voltage networks and protection systems
- Fault Investigation: Investigating and analysing protection-related faults and protection operation, developing reports and data including relay settings and configuration files
- Compliance: Applying sound engineering principles in accordance with industry requirements including AS, IEC/IEEE Standards, Electricity Acts and Regulations, National Electricity Rules, and AEMO guidelines
- Collaboration: Working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and mentoring younger engineers
About You
Ideally you will come with the following education, professional and personal attributes:
- Graduate or postgraduate electrical engineer with specialisation in Power Systems (desirable)
- Chartered Professional Engineer status with Engineers Australia (or ability to acquire)
- Significant experience in design, selection, and installation of electrical equipment and systems.
- Protection design expertise including testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting of HV and LV power systems for oil and gas, mines and mineral processing, heavy industrial and commercial installations.
- Software proficiency in power system modelling software (ETAP preferred) and equipment-specific supplier software packages for configuration and management of protection parameters, logics and setting files.
- Substation automation knowledge including Modbus, DNP, IEC 61850, and interface with higher level SCADA systems.
- Testing experience with protection test equipment and experience in primary and secondary testing of generators, transformers, switchgear, electric motors, and protection relays
- Positive outlook with ability to motivate and inspire others.
- Strong written, oral and presentation skills for communicating complex messages to various audiences.
- Willingness to adapt with changing priorities and focus
Applications to be received by 5pm Tuesday 3rd February 2026.
About Our Process
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Supporting a Diverse Workforce
The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.
At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.
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