Associate Manager

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks.

The Role

As an Associate Manager, Project Engineering located in our Sydney office in Macquarie Park, you will perform a key role working with project teams to devise and implement complex solutions to meet the needs of utilities in the energy transmission, distribution and generation business. You will have a team of skilled engineers that you have to manage, as well as coordinate resource assignment and utilization with other team leaders and managers.

This position works in a challenging and fast paced environment, and provides opportunity for engineers to expand their technical knowledge and leadership capabilities in all aspects of the energy utility industry by leading engineering team that will be solving complex, real world issues for our customer base using the tools, processes and training OSI provides.

Your Impact

• Provide mentoring and technical guidance including overseeing activities of less experienced engineers on multiple projects to meet quality, volume, and timeliness objectives;
• Managing the team, including personal involvement, that works on several projects in parallel in a fast-paced environment;
• Further develop leadership capacity through a supportive and engaging culture.
• Assisting engineering manager in resource planning, team training and team expansion;
• Communicate detailed software enhancement requirements to the internal departments as needed;
• Design, plan, integrate, test and commission SCADA systems, either in EMS/GMS or ADMS space, while at the same time be able to report technical details to the Project Manager and internal stakeholders;
• Create project documentation as needed including descriptions of specific customer requirements
• Build lasting relationships with customers through professional, efficient, pleasant, and helpful communication

What You'll Need

• Australian Citizen or Permanent resident with full working rights, preferably based in Sydney
• Ability to attend the office in Macquarie Park, Sydney on a flexible basis, and prepared to travel to customer sites across the region when required.
• Around 5 years of related experience in utility industry with one or more of SCADA, Energy Management System (EMS), Distribution Management System (DMS), Outage Management System (OMS) or DERMS; Preferably this experience shall come from Australian or New Zealand based utilities, consultancy companies or international vendors;
• Min. 2 years of experience in leading team of engineers in the project delivery/implementation space;
• Experience in developing other engineers while working together on particular technical task and/or training them on the products and processes
• Have a natural curiosity and desire to leverage your expertise to develop other team members and improve work environment.
• Excellent organization, interpersonal, communication, reporting and planning skills.
• Effectively influence others to assist achieve objectives more efficiently
• Bachelor's degree either in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related field of engineering;
• Knowledge of electric utilities & power systems operations, communications with field devices (i.e. RTU, IED, etc.), relational databases and operating systems and/or network engineering;
• Strong commitment to providing superior customer service.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts verbally and in writing.