Lead Electrical Engineer

Are you a senior Electrical Lead or Principal Electrical Project Engineer with a strong background in heavy industry, mining, or utility-scale infrastructure? Are you seeking single-point discipline ownership on a flagship brownfield capital program?

We are partnering with an industry-leading national building materials and quarrying group as they deliver a $100M critical infrastructure upgrade at a major regional mining operation in the Southern Highlands region. Replacing a 100-year-old primary crusher with a state-of-the-art impact crusher, stacker reclaimer, rail realignment, and high-voltage power supply realignment, this project is a non-discretionary, long-term capital investment.

As the Project Lead (Electrical) Engineer, you will serve as the single discipline authority for all Electrical, Instrumentation, and Control (EI&C) scope across the capital delivery program. Managing a dedicated internal team (Electrical Site Co-ordinator and Electrical Draftsperson) alongside specialist contractors, you will oversee design assurance, HV power realignment, switchrooms, PLC/SCADA integration, and site energisation within an active operating mine environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Discipline Single Point of Accountability: Own the electrical basis of design, ensuring technical integrity, constructability, and compliance across all EI&C packages against relevant Australian Standards.
• High Voltage & Power Supply Realignment: Lead the delivery of high-voltage (HV) reticulation, regional power supply realignment, substations, transformers, switchrooms, and Motor Control Centres (MCCs).
• NSP & Grid Interfaces: Manage technical interfaces with Network Service Providers (NSPs), network connection approvals, protection settings, and outage tie-in sequencing to ensure zero disruption to live operations.
• Control Systems & Automation Integration: Oversee the PLC, SCADA, and field instrumentation architecture, ensuring seamless integration with existing plant control networks and safety instrumented functions.
• Vendor & Contract Management: Prepare technical RFQs, evaluate major equipment tenders (VSDs, switchgear, transformers), manage vendor Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), and direct site installation contractors.
• Brownfield Site Execution & Energisation: Supervise site installation, verify cable routing and earthing, lead pre-commissioning, and drive safe energisation, testing, and operational handover.
• Electrical Safety & Risk Leadership: Maintain strict compliance with NSW Mining health and safety regulations, electrical isolation protocols, arc flash controls, and high-voltage access authorisations.

We recognise that high-level industrial electrical engineering skills are highly transferable. We welcome applications from senior electrical engineers with a background in Mining & Metals, Heavy Manufacturing, Steel, Oil & Gas, Mineral Processing, Bulk Materials Handling, Power Generation, or Utilities/NSPs.

• Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Chartered Engineer (CPEng) status or eligibility, and High Voltage (HV) Switching/Access Authorisation capability are highly regarded.
• Experience: Minimum 10+ years’ post-graduate experience delivering complex industrial power and capital engineering projects, including experience as a discipline lead.
• HV & Power Infrastructure: Proven track record in high-voltage distribution, substations, switchgear, protection coordination, earthing design, and transformer specification.
• Automation & Drives: Practical understanding of industrial PLC/SCADA architectures, Variable Speed Drives (VSDs), instrumentation, and motor control.
• Brownfield Delivery: Demonstrated site experience managing contractors, outage tie-ins, and energisation sequences in live, continuous operating environments.
• Leadership & Governance: Ability to lead technical teams, manage vendor contracts, review consultant designs, and operate within formal stage-gate capital governance frameworks

Based in the picturesque Southern Highlands, this role will be offered as a 20 month fixed term contract initially. You will work with a strong senior leadership team who are invested in ensuring this projects success.

Any queries or a confidential conversation call Andrew Pinkerton on 0434 218 346.

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.