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We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefitfrom a range of perksand opportunities, including:\nOver 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.\n\nFlexible work arrangements to support flexible working hours and working from home arrangements.\n\nThe opportunity to purchaseup to four weeks of additionalleave per year.\n\nAccess to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.\n\nAn award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.\n\nAn innovative team culture that’senabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.\n\nIn addition to standard leave, enjoy threewellness leave days each year.\n\nAccess to end-of-trip facilities at our Perthofficeand South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.\n\n22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.\n\nApplicationsclose on 16 November 2026.\nWe value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180 -endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.\nLearn more about Western Power here: About (westernpower.com.au)\nFind out how we’rebuilding A Network for Life: A network for life (westernpower.com.au)","description_format":"text","description_chars":4627,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Gym membership","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Power Grid"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T07:16:47Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:12","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/western-power-engineering-team-leader-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/western-power-engineering-team-leader-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T14:11:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32959,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":40900},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=40900"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwestern-power-engineering-team-leader-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwestern-power-engineering-team-leader-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwestern-power-engineering-team-leader-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/western-power-engineering-team-leader-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwestern-power-engineering-team-leader-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3954938}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"westernpower.com.au","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3954938},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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