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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 20, 2026.

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Beca is an employee-owned advisory, design and engineering consultancy headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, working on infrastructure, buildings, energy, water, industrial and environmental projects. After roughly a century in operation it has grown from a family business into one of the largest independent professional services consultancies in the Asia-Pacific region, with more than 4,000 staff in about 25 offices and projects delivered in over 70 countries. It hires electrical, mechanical, seismic and transmission line engineers, resident and project engineers, ecologists, ICT and security specialists, and finance and people teams across New Zealand, Australia and Southeast Asia.

Team Leader - PrimaryEngineering

Beca’s Power businessoperatesas a truly combined Asia Pacific business, with teams based in Australia, New Zealand,Thailandand Indonesia. Working collaboratively, our teams are passionate about renewable energy and the delivery of critical energy projects working across the full project lifecycle from scoping, detailed designthrough toprocurement and construction support. Together they deliver large, complex energy and renewable projects across Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and HV Power services to key utilities, energy developers, major contractors for the commercial, industrial and infrastructure sectors.

The Opportunity

We'relooking for a Team Leader - Primary Engineering to lead and grow our Melbourne based team of talented engineers. This is afantasticopportunity to combine people leadership with technical delivery, supporting aclose-knitteam ofengineers working across transmission, distribution and substation projects throughout Australia and New Zealand.

This role would suit an experienced Primary Engineer withpreviouspeopleleadership experience, or someonewho is ready to take the next step as a Team Leader.

You'llplay a key role in leading and developing an already strong and highly engaged team, fostering a positive,collaborativeand high-performing culture while contributing your technicalexpertiseto the delivery of complex power infrastructure projects.

You will:

  • Lead, mentorandcoach the next generation of power engineers, helping them to undertake packages of work and supporting theircareer development

  • Foster a positive,connectedand collaborative team culture where people feel engaged,supportedand motivated to do their best work

  • Complete concept and detailed designs for High Voltage (HV)and Extra High Voltage (EHV) transmission and distributionprojectsusing the latest in digital design technologies

  • Solve complex engineering challenges across site constraints, client requirements, equipment specifications, earthing,cablingand safety standards

  • Build strong relationships with clients, projectteamsand stakeholders across the business

  • Support work winning, resource planning and the ongoing growth, careerdevelopmentand success of theprimaryengineering team

Our design and project roles are busy, with multiple work projects, differing clientdeadlinesand changingtimeframes. Your ability to work across multiple workstreams managing your time and deliverables will be important, as will being able to adapt to changing project deliverables andtimeframes. Updating stakeholders early and often will be a key mantra that you work by, especially for those ‘hard conversations’ where project timelines are at risk of not being met.

You will be part of a team of Beca’s leading design experts working collaboratively to deliver best-in-class designs. Career development opportunitiesexistincluding moving across technical, design, technology, people,clientor business leadership pathways.

About You

You'rean experienced Primary Engineer who enjoys bringing people together, developing talent and building on the success of an already strong and highly engaged team. You lead by example, communicate openly and are passionate about helping others grow and succeed.

Previouspeopleleadership experience would be highly regarded. However,we'reequally interested in individuals whodemonstratestrong leadership potential, a positiveattitudeand a genuine desire to coach,supportand develop others.

You bring:

  • Experience delivering HV/EHV primary substation designs with strong technical knowledge of substation layouts, equipmentselection, HV cable design and Australian and/or New Zealand design standards

  • Experience with, or exposure to, software platforms such as CYMCAP, CDEGs, Autodesk SBS, Inventor, Navisworks, AutoCAD and/or MicroStation would beadvantageous.

  • Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills across functions and disciplines

  • A people-first approach with a passion for coaching,mentoringand developing others

  • The ability to balance technical delivery, stakeholderengagementand team leadership

You'llbe a valued team member with opportunities to grow your career and contribute to the Power team's success. Our colleagues come from diverse backgrounds, includingclient, consultancy, design-build contractors, and industrial businesses. We invite applications from a broad range of backgrounds.

Who is Beca?

Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4,000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives andexpertiseto every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, ouraspirationsand our purpose - to makeeverydaybetter. Our four values - partnership, tenacity,enjoymentand care - sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

AtBecawe makeeverydaybetter for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility meanyou’renot just on the fringes;you’remaking a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy jugglingworkwith everything else life throws at us.This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

Ready to make the move? / Apply now

If you want to make every day better, apply online today!

If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting https://www.beca.com/ignite-your-thinking/in-focus/energy

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