Senior Construction Procurement Specialist - Renewables (Materials and Services)

Essential Energy is hiring a Senior Construction Procurement Specialist for Renewables, focusing on sourcing strategies for materials and services to support the energy transition in NSW. The role allows for a hybrid work environment, emphasizing collaboration and innovation in procurement processes. Candidates should have over five years of relevant experience and a strong background in developing sourcing strategies within the energy or infrastructure sectors.
Job Description

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About The Role

Could you play a key role in the NSW energy transition? We are currently recruiting for a Senior Construction Procurement Specialist – Renewables (Materials and Services) to join the team on a permanent basis.

This role will be based within the Essential Energy footprint with the ability to work from home in a hybrid work environment.

The Senior Construction Procurement Specialist – Renewables, takes the lead to establish new supply capability required to upgrade the Essential Energy network to support the transition to renewable energy. This will require working closely with business stakeholders to develop and deliver sourcing strategies for multiple different services and materials. Your work will directly result in upgrades to sub-transmission lines, substations, switching stations and connections to renewable energy assets.

This role augments an established and high performing Procurement team in which expertise for governance, systems, sustainability and other areas is there to support. This role will help drive the strategic direction and planning for the renewable energy portfolio area, including translation of Essential Energy’s corporate goals and strategies into Procurement priorities.

With the rapid growth in the renewables sector, a proactive and innovative approach is required to solving problems, delivering outcomes and influencing stakeholders and suppliers.

About You

You are a seasoned procurement professional with over five years of experience in energy, infrastructure, or other asset-intensive industries. Your career is marked by a strong track record in developing and implementing sourcing strategies and managing source to contract processes. You are experienced with procurement systems and frameworks, with a keen ability to design and optimise processes that drive measurable performance improvements.

Your leadership style is energetic and collaborative, and you have experience navigating complex resources and priorities. You have experience guiding and influencing business teams through challenging strategic sourcing scenarios and have been regarded as a safe pair of hands. You are commercially astute, leveraging data and insights to inform decisions and deliver tangible business outcomes. Comfortable working in cross-functional project environments, you bring confidence, maturity, and the courage to challenge the status quo in pursuit of excellence.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor Degree in Business, Engineering, Logistics or Finance or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications.

Why Essential Energy

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits including 26 weeks paid parental leave, learning and development opportunities, and Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. For more information on our benefits, please visit the employee benefits page .

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women .

We’re a business with a huge range of operational and corporate roles aimed at connecting our communities.

As a pivotal player in the energy future of NSW and the country – we cover 95% of NSW and parts of southern QLD - we are an organisation with a wider variety of roles than you may first think.

Whether you want to work remotely, in a coastal region or rurally, we will invest in you, develop you and help you shape a career in energy that will give you future opportunities you may never have realised in a sector where there is so much to explore.

For further information please contact Dave Saliba, Manager Sourcing Services on 0415 267 859.

Applications close on Sunday 15 June 2025 at 11:55pm.

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Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.

At Essential Energy, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with a disability to apply to Essential Energy (including alternate formats of application forms or alternate ways for accessibility). To discuss adjustment requirements, please contact careers@essentialenergy.com.au or call us on 1800 255 777.