Lead Electrical and Instrumentation Designer

The Opportunity

Are you a skilled Electrical and Instrumentation Designer looking to take the next step in your career? Join our team at Mipac as a Lead Electrical and Instrumentation Designer, where you will play a pivotal role in preparing high-quality electrical, control, and instrumentation deliverables for our clients. In this newly created position, you will also support CAD Operators and Drafters, ensuring excellence in AutoCAD and design tool administration.

Key Responsibilities

• Design Detail: Interpreting Engineer’s conceptual designs and transforming them into detailed technical deliverables.
• Drawing Preparation: Create and update electrical and control system deliverables, including Single Line Diagrams, Schematics, P&ID’s, Cable Block Diagrams, Termination Diagrams, Loop Diagrams, Hookup Diagrams, Equipment BOM’s and Panel Arrangements.
• Site Inspections: Conduct site inspections to gather data and verify existing drawings.
• Support & Maintenance: Maintain AutoCAD infrastructure and design tool procedures including assessing most appropriate software and tools and driving continual improvement.
• Training & Audits: Train new starters in MIPAC’s AutoCAD and design tool procedures and conduct regular audits.
• Team Collaboration: Work with drafters, designers, and Engineers to ensure timely project completion that is within budget.
• Standards Compliance: Ensure consistency and compliance with design standards across Mipac and relevant Australian Standards.
• AutoCAD Administration: Maintain MIPAC’s CAD standards and library. Ensures that Client CAD standards are implemented.

 Qualifications and Skills Required

• Diploma or Advanced Diploma in Electrical Engineering (or recognised equivalent) with relevant industry experience, or a relevant electrical trade background.
• Proven experience as an Electrical/Instrumentation/Control Detail Draftsperson.
• Proficiency in CAD software, such as AutoCAD (Advanced to Expert level) and/or MicroStation.
• Proficiency in design tools like AVEVA Instrumentation and Eplan.
• Experience in 3D modelling software.
• Strong oral communication skills for effective client and team interaction.
• High level of computer literacy and excellent mathematical skills.
• Strong attention to detail, quality focus, and ideally an understanding of ISO 9001 principles.
• Previous experience overseeing and reviewing design work of direct reports.
• Focused and ability to prioritise workload to ensure efficient project delivery.

What We Can Offer You

At Mipac, we pride ourselves on offering an exciting and challenging place to grow your career in an environment that allows for creativity, flexibility, and support. We believe you’ll love working with us if you:

• Thrive collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds
• Welcome challenges with a can-do attitude and solution focus
• Value excellence and hard work
• Want to work on some of the world’s biggest projects
• Are a keen learner interested in being exposed to different technologies, sites, vendors, and/or programming languages
• Value leaders who are approachable, supportive, and roll up their sleeves when needed

We see our people as our most valuable asset and are committed to ensuring our staff feel safe, secure, and comfortable, are given continuous learning opportunities, and feel valued. That’s why we offer:

• Competitive salaries with an annual bonus payment, including a site remuneration policy
• An opportunity to work on exciting and diverse projects nationally and internationally
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible and hybrid work options
• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities, including free access to LinkedIn Learning
• Support to gain further accreditation and certifications through our Study Support policy
• Health & wellbeing benefits, including private health discounts and access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About Us

For Mipac, we’re global leaders in operational technology, control systems, and engineering services across a range of sectors. We empower and engage workforces, creating automation and digitalisation solutions for our clients which enable easy decision-making and increased productivity, performance, and safety. We believe every problem has a solution and are dedicated to solving even the most complex of challenges.

For more about what we do, visit www.mipac.com.au.

Does this sound like you?

If this opportunity sounds right for you, please apply today.

Any questions? You can email hr@mipac.com.au

Please note: Applicants must have full working rights in Australia.

Not the right opportunity for you right now, but you'd still like to work for Mipac? Visit www.mipac.com.au careers section to see what other vacancies for which we are currently recruiting. Here you can also submit an expression of interest application so that you can be considered for other opportunities.