Senior Electrical Engineer

Vertiv is seeking to add a Senior Electrical Engineer to our high performing team! 

Provide post-sales engineering review, leadership and support for won projects in Australian and New Zealand. Provide guidance and expertise on critical infrastructure projects, including the application and installation of Vertiv products and services, including support with approved third-party vendors and internal teams, to facilitate smooth deployment of major projects undertaken by the business. They will also provide technical leadership amongst peers in the team with expertise to help drive decision making.

Who we are: 

Nearly all aspects of our lives involve the use of technology. It’s how we work, play & do anything in between. This connectivity or use of data is built into the very fabric of our society. It’s vital to human progress. 

Vertiv believes there’s a better way to meet this accelerating demand for data — one driven by passion & innovation. 

As industry experts & Architects of Continuity, we collaborate with our customers to envision & build future-ready infrastructures. We leverage our portfolio of hardware, software, analytics, & services, to ensure our customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally & scale with business needs. 

Why Join Vertiv? 

• Meaningful & Fulfilling Work 

• Collaborative Culture 

• Global Career Opportunities 

• Inspiring & Caring Leaders in the industry 

• Recharge Your Potential 

Salary & Perks: 

• Base + Super

• Regular training & career progression 

• Specialist tools & company-provided mobile phone 

• Be part of a top-tier team in a world-class company 

Key Responsibilities

• Attend the documentation hand-over process from Pre to Post-Sales teams once a project has been won or has a very high likelihood.

• On receipt of the Document Package, interrogate the documentation to ensure buildability and budget compliance.

• Review all aspects of the proposal, from Statement of Compliance through to Commissioning and Hand-over, including provision of Training and Documentation requirements to the customer.

• Act as technical authority for engineering decisions and design philosophies throughout the project lifecycle.

• Once Technical Review is complete, engage with our partners, contractors, and vendors to assure the most cost-effective and technically sound solution has been selected by the Pre-Sales teams.  

• Work with Product Managers, Service Teams, and our source factories (where necessary), to ensure the best possible and cost-effective solution has been selected for the project.

• During the Post-Sales phase, attend to all project meetings on scope of supply, technical qualifications and testing procedures and programs are understood by Vertiv associates, contractors, other vendors, and our customer.

• Assist with the ownership of the project through to delivery, commissioning and hand-over.

• Ensure a thorough hand-over process to Project Management when the units have arrived in country.

• Operate a comprehensive documentation register for all project files and ensure the latest revisions are uploaded to the company server.

• Check new revisions for details affecting Vertiv’s scope of supply and quickly communicate any impacts to Vertiv’s technical, cost and schedule impacts, back to the customer and the Sales and Projects team for management of variations.

• Provide a completed set of project documentation to the Project Management Team on delivery of the project for hand-over to the client.

• Where necessary, prepare a detailed Scope of Supply to Procurement, where Vertiv contractors and vendors are required to undertake works on our behalf.  Documentation should be thorough enough to be used by procurement to gain the necessary number of quotations and enable tensioning of vendors to occur.

• Scopes of Supply should also ensure there are no areas of overlap or gaps in scop, reducing our risk of double-ups or variations from our vendors.

• Liaise with Sales and Project Managers to capture all site, scope and testing departures from our original submission, are captured, and highlighted to the customer.  Provide variation documentation as and when required to ensure Entry margins are not eroded through the span of the project.

• Manage revisions and updates to site documentation post the Purchase Order.  This will include incorporating documentation changes into revised Statements of Compliance and other affected documents.

• Work with PSA team to have as-built drawings developed and updated as necessary, ready for site hand-over.

Qualifications:

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering

• 10+ years engineering experience

• Market knowledge of mission critical power infrastructure, including application, installation, commissioning, testing and communications connectivity

• Tender processes and the application of products to fit their requirements.

• Knowledge of the application of Australian and international standards framework and industry codes

• Excellent technical understanding and knowledge of emergency power management products and concepts.

• Excellent competency in reading technical drawings and design specifications.

• Proficient in technical writing.

• ACAD drawing skills would be an advantage.

• Prioritisation skills

• Interpersonal skills

• Leadership skills

• Ability to manage a high volume of work.

• Attention to detail.