Karl Olsen Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Electrical Building Services Engineer

Collingwood, Victoria, AU

• Perform detailed Energy Audits (levels 1-3) to AS 3598 for large/small businesses incl households.
• Solar Power viability and optimal system sizing based on measured electricity load profile.
• Electricity & gas bill tariff analysis to recommend best value for clients.
• Identification of energy waste using power metering techniques.
• Reveal energy efficiency strategies to obtain 10 - 40% reduction in energy consumption.
• Detailed auditing of mechanical plant, lighting, computers, motors, boilers, heaters & more.

• Creator of a new FREE online lighting search tool, for Australian lighting industry professionals to save time in searching for lights. LightSeeker.com.au contains a huge database of 1000+ lighting suppliers &.
• Responsible for overall design of the online lighting search tool.
• Website Database management & content research for lighting education & articles.
• Technical engineering support for all lighting design aspects.
• Design of the search engine tool & associated filters
• LightSeeker™ marketing to lighting professionals

Melbourne, VIC, AU

• Coles Supermarkets division.
• Create specifications for the National Electrical Safety Project
• Project Management of Electrical Safety Initiatives to all 750 Coles supermarkets across Australia. Management of Consulting Engineers & Contractors for successful implementation.
• Create new electrical engineering standards to address Energy Efficiency within Supermarket Stores. Close liaison with Coles Environment Manager.
• Life cycle cost analysis leading to energy efficiency initiatives for the design of new supermarkets.
• Design & tender documentation for centralised UPS system to serve supermarket critical systems.

St Leonards, NSW, AU

• Designer of Electrical Engineering Services for new buildings.
• Design, documentation, tender and project co-ordination of electrical services, for many projects comprising juvenile justice centres, prisons, nursing homes, sports centres, office fitouts, shopping centres and.
• Site construction phase administration of building services projects.
• Fire Safety Audits to all prisons in Victoria
• Submission of fee proposals for tenders and contract variations
• Project planning and cost estimation - mentoring & training of junior electrical team members

• Designer of Electrical Engineering Services for new buildings.
• Designed & completed over 30 hospital & Healthcare projects from start to finish.
• Design, documentation, tender and project co-ordination of electrical services for a wide range of building projects, educational facilities, sporting centres, prisons, including a specialty in hospitals. Namely, The.
• Supervision and management of electrical contractors on site including negotiation of project variations.
• Production and analysis of company labour resource allocation reports.
• Development of company project cost control-monitoring system interfaced with electronic timesheets, using Visual Basic Application programming.

• Contract positions with Umoi Lai & Associates and CDR Electrical.
• Design, documentation, tender and project management of electrical services for hospitals, educational facilities and office fitouts.
• Design and production of control drawings for continuous process machinery, including PLC programming, project programming, commissioning and final handover.

• Electrical design for Water filtration and sewerage treatment plant - “design & construct” projects. Worked on Penrith & Myponga projects from initial concept through to design and the commissioning.
• Design of electrical circuits for control of all plant equipment.
• PLC programming & commissioning, PLC Input/output diagrams, Plant logic diagrams.
• "Hands on” testing and commissioning of plant operation and fine tuning performance.
• Motor schematics, Motorised valve control, common control circuits, block cabling diagrams.
• Termination sheets, Cable schedules, Plant Mimic diagrams.

• Various contract & employee positions with Engineering Consultants in Sydney: Toni Mury & Associates, Thompson Gallagher & Haron Robson Reeves & Partners.
• Design, documentation, tender and project management of electrical services for buildings.
• Projects included cinemas, shopping centres, office fitouts, nightclubs, RSL clubs

• Electrical engineer within signalling design, maintenance, technical and contracts departments.
• Electrical project programme planning and forecasting
• Investigation of and the reporting of electrical failures on rail signalling network
• Railway maintenance department procedures development
• Design of level-crossing electrical control circuits

Bachelor, Electrical Engineering

Nsw Higher School Certificate