Downer
Leading provider of integrated services across Australia and New Zealand, delivering infrastructure solutions.
Electrical Designer Estimator/Engineer
Design and estimate electrical distribution projects, manage delivery, and ensure compliance.
Job Highlights
About the Role
You will be a key team member responsible for designing and estimating asset renewal projects, customer‑initiated projects, major tenders, and defect resolutions. You will also manage projects to ensure they meet specifications, stay within budget, and are completed within agreed timeframes. • Offer high-quality engineering design and estimation services, including providing quotations. • Perform quality audits of onsite work to ensure compliance with contract documents, design and construction standards, legislation, regulations, and network operating standards. • Provide detailed scopes of work, proposals, reports, handover packages and commissioning documents. • Oversee projects according to specifications, budget, and deadlines; ensure resources are efficiently coordinated with the project plan. • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸design estimation
- ▸quality audits
- ▸project oversight
- ▸stakeholder management
- ▸tender management
- ▸asset renewal
What You Bring
Multiple roles are available across Auckland, Hamilton, Paeroa, Matamata, Coromandel Town, and Tauranga. Ready to power smarter infrastructure across New Zealand? Join Downer’s Engineering Solutions Division and apply your electrical design expertise. Whether you are a seasoned engineer or transitioning from a trade background, this role offers a dynamic path into electricity distribution projects that genuinely make a difference. The ideal candidate possesses technical skills and practical experience in the power distribution field, whether as a qualified engineer or a trades professional moving into design. Effective communication, problem‑solving, and delivering work to client expectations and safety standards are essential. Knowledge of electricity distribution networks, design and pricing experience in infrastructure or utilities, and a trade or engineering background (e.g., line mechanic, electrician, cable jointer) are required, along with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
Requirements
- ▸electrical design
- ▸power distribution
- ▸design pricing
- ▸engineer
- ▸electrician
- ▸stakeholder engagement
Benefits
A generous salary package and all the tools needed to perform the job well are offered. You will become part of a leading service line in the Energy & Utilities sector, known for its strong community and high‑achieving teams. Benefits include health and wellness programs such as EAP, Beyond Blue, health‑insurance discounts, and access to Perks@Downer for discounts on retail, travel, and entertainment. The business also provides internal mobility support, succession planning, and redeployment opportunities, reflecting Downer’s investment in its people.
Work Environment
Hybrid