Engineering Team Leader

Engineering Team Leader – Dx Strategy - Permanent Full Time – Perth CBD

Step into a leadership role where you’ll guide a high-performing engineering team shaping the future of asset management in Western Power’s distribution network. In this pivotal position, you’ll champion the development and implementation of best-practice strategies that optimise asset performance across their full life cycle.

You’ll define asset management strategies, drive performance assessment, and develop optimum risk-mitigation and operational plans—ensuring our assets operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. From establishing robust processes to influencing business-critical decisions, you’ll have a direct impact on achieving excellence across our distribution network asset classes.

Your Role in Action

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers and analysts operating in a dynamic, complex technical environment.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation and the adoption of new technologies across the team.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure team capability and performance through effective talent and performance management practices.
• Collaborate across organisational boundaries to achieve asset and asset system performance objectives.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate the team’s work to meet operational and strategic goals.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities that enhance asset life cycle management.
• Develop asset management strategies that support maintenance, life extension and renewal of in-service assets.
• Lead monitoring, reporting and forecasting of risk and performance for distribution in-service assets.
• Lead development of long-term network investment plan and regulatory access arrangement submissions for in-service distribution network assets.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Degree in Engineering.
• Eligible for Professional Engineer membership (MIEAust) with Engineers Australia.
• Comprehensive asset management knowledge and experience, preferably working with a regulated utility.
• Demonstrated ability in continuous improvement and innovation in the management of physical assets.
• Demonstrated experience developing and leading high-performing teams.
• Strong communicator, good articulation skill, strategic acumen.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. 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 benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 03 December 2025.

We 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. 

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