# Protection Technician

About Transgrid Transgrid builds and maintains the largest electricity network in Australia, providing the backbone of the National Electricity Market while supporting the transition to a cleaner energy future. Join us and help make a better power system for generations to come. The opportunity Build a specialist career protecting the high voltage network that powers millions of homes and businesses. You will work on the systems that detect faults and respond in milliseconds, protecting people, critical assets and the stability of the wider power system. We are growing our Secondary Systems teams and have opportunities for Protection and Metering Technicians across Greater Sydney (Eastern Creek base location),Newcastle, Yass, Wagga Wagga, Tamworth and Orange. You will help protect the equipment, people and communities that rely on the safe and dependable operation of the high voltage transmission system. We are recruiting across a range of experience levels, from qualified electrical tradespeople ready to move into protection through to experienced protection professionals. Your position level and remuneration will reflect the capability and experience you bring. Protection experie

- **Id**: 3599327
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/trans-grid-protection-technician>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T07:15:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T02:43:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4730
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid

## Company

- **Id**: 2128044
- **Name**: Trans Grid
- **Domain**: transgrid.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/transgrid>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **IEC 61850** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T07:15:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 79
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.841
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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