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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Lead the Operations Planning and Access team to ensure the provision of effective, efficient, and quality services while continuously influencing, building and contributing to a positive team culture
• Proactively build and maintain effective relationships, working constructively and providing advice and guidance to relevant stakeholders
• Lead and manage the provision of operations engineering support and efficient outage coordination services
• Manage the provision of effective engineering advice for management of new and existing non-regulated customer connections
• Power system security risks and market impact assessments
• Network capacity and capability analysis

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Provide network capacity and capability analysis, including development of strategic options.
• Provide advice on generation outlooks and demand/supply balance.
• Development and publishing of strategic operational philosophy and standards
• Monitoring, analysis, strategic review and reporting of transmission network performance
• Review power system operational engineering applications.
• Provision of current and future focused strategic analysis and advice on complex aspects of the operation of the transmission network in the National Electricity Market (NEM).

• Reviewing and developing operational procedures and standards.
• Performing detailed power systems analysis services.
• Developing and maintaining a library of power system contingency plans.
• Facilitating knowledge capture and the dissemination of operational knowledge throughout the organisation.
• Investigating and reporting on system incidences.
• Managing network constraints and the communication of limits advice to AEMO.

Port Macquarie

• Engineering Manager in System Control is responsible for the secure operation of the entire Essential Energy electrical network. This extends to a number of different task with some of the major ones listed below:
• Incident Investigations
• Load-flow modelling
• Protection Studies
• Advising System Operators in Technical aspects of operating the network
• Technical training/presenting to System Operators

• Load-flow modeling
• Advising, training and presenting to System Operators
• Auditing and investigating switching instructions
• Reviewing operating protocols
• Co-ordinating scheduled planned outages with external companies
• Input into Black-start critical incident training model

Port Macquarie

Earthing Engineer

Port Macquarie

Graduate Engineer, rotations included:Reliability (7 months)System Control (10 months)Network Earthing (8 months)Network Protection (10 months)

Master'S Degree, Professional Engineering Leadership, With Distinction

Master'S Degree, Master Of Electrical Power Engineering, With Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Bachelor Of Engineering Honours (Electrical), Honours