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Power Control Engineers Pty Limited (PCE) is an electrical design, consulting and project management company specialising in electrical power systems.

We have over 250 years of combined electrical engineering experience and pride ourselves on providing practical power engineering solutions; delivering excellence and value to our clients.

PCE is celebrating 20 yearsPCE was founded in Newcastle in 2003 by the late Ken Bode, with a focus on servicing local heavy industry. Initially, the company provided electrical engineering services to the two aluminium smelters in the Hunter Valley: being Tomago Aluminium Company and Hydro Aluminium in Kurri Kurri.

In 2006, as local demand for electrical engineering services increased, particularly in the Hunter Valley, PCE took on a number of senior engineers and began to expand its service offering. Today, with a presence in Newcastle (PCE HQ), Melbourne and Perth, we service a range of clients and industries throughout Australia including primary metals, port, mining, rail, manufacturing, water, energy, construction, and local government. 

 

'We are industry-based electrical engineers providing practical power solutions, rolling up our sleeves since 2003'

 

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Bryce Parker - Managing Director

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Rob Cambourn - Operations Manager

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Katrina Sarich - Finance & Admin Manager

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Donald Carbarns - Lead Electrical Engineer

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Tom Kotsopulos - Lead Electrical Engineer

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Leonie McNeill - Lead Electrical Engineer

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Mark Second - Lead Electrical Engineer

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Anthony Stevens - Lead Electrical Engineer

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Goban Yogalingam - Lead Electrical Engineer

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Paul Doyle - Senior Electrical Engineer

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Uzair Khan - Senior Electrical Engineer

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William Magnussen - Senior Electrical Engineer

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Ettiene Olivier - Senior Electrical Engineer

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Thomas Parkinson - Senior Electrical Engineer

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Brent Stewart - Senior Electrical Engineer

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Chris Boles - Senior ASP3 Designer

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Kieran Jackson - Senior ASP3 Designer

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Joshua Bates - Electrical Engineer

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Timothy Matthews - Electrical Engineer

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Elisha Mutasa - Electrical Engineer

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Nicolas Palmiotto - Electrical Engineer

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Nicholas Sain - Electrical Engineer

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Isaac Zenini - Electrical Engineer

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Colin Bode - ASP3 Designer (Trainee)

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Mark Cornally - CAD Designer

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William Cook - Graduate Electrical Engineer

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Sam Pike - Graduate Electrical Engineer

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Dante Staneke - Graduate Electrical Engineer

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Ollie Hamilton - Undergraduate Electrical Engineer

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Jacob Mahony - Undergraduate Electrical Engineer

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Yvonne Sarich - Administration

Bryce Parker

Managing Director

Bryce is a trusted engineering management professional and passionate business leader who loves inspiring people, managing teams, and driving organisational growth. Working in the electrical field for more than 20 years - across defence aerospace, original equipment manufacture (OEM), and engineering services sectors - he has formal electrical trade, engineering, functional safety, and business management qualifications; with demonstrated ability across operational, engineering management and business development functions. 

Bryce joined PCE as the General Manager in February 2018 and was appointed Managing Director in July 2019. 

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Rob Cambourn

Operations Manager

Katrina Sarich

Finance & Admin Manager

Katrina is a dedicated and detail oriented accounting professional who has been meeting the needs of corporations and individuals across a diverse range of business settings for over 20 years.

Joining as Finance and Administration Manager in 2023, Katrina brings a wealth of experience to PCE across Lithium mining and energy, analytics and trade promotion, as well as commercial planning, asset management and tax services.

 

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Donald Carbarns

Lead Electrical Engineer

Don is a chartered electrical engineer with over twenty-five years of electrical engineering experience across a number of different industries.  He has been a practicing electrical engineer since graduating from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa in 1979. During this period he has worked in engineering and management positions in a number of organisations in South Africa, the UK and Australia.

Don joined Power Control Engineers (PCE) in 2010 as a lead Electrical engineer.  For eight years prior to this, he was employed by WorleyParsons in Newcastle as a senior electrical engineer. Most of this period was spent at the Hunter’s two Aluminium smelters, first at Tomago and then at Hydro Aluminium.

Tom Kotsopulos

Lead Electrical Engineer

Tom Kotsopulos is an Electrical Engineer at Power Control Engineers and has over 17 years’ experience within the Victorian Electrical Distribution industry. Experience includes preparing maximum demand load summary for clients, preparing scope of works for electrical distribution connections, co-ordination & liaison with clients on supply upgrade requirements, completing distribution design to distribution company standards, and project management from distribution connection application to construction.

Projects completed have been within the following industries: Residential developments, industrial developments,  HV/LV assets alterations for road upgrade/widening, cogeneration connections, bushfire mitigation overhead line design, and factory supply upgrade connections.

Tom offers an extensive range of experience and expertise necessary to meet our customer's engineering needs. 

Leonie McNeill

Lead Electrical Engineer

Leonie is a Senior Electrical Engineer with Power Control Engineers and has over fifteen years of engineering experience in the industrial, utility and mining sectors.

Her experience has included power system analysis and studies (PTW, ETAP); arc flash studies and mitigation recommendations; protection studies and settings; secondary detailed design; relay programming; industrial automation design and PLC/SCADA configuration and system commissioning.

Mark Second

Lead Electrical Engineer

Mark is a chartered electrical engineer with over forty years of engineering experience since graduating from the University of Cape Town in 1980.

This experience has been in the power generation, coal, water, chemical and petroleum industries. Since 2008 he has been a co-director and Lead Electrical Engineer with PCE. Presently he holds NER and RPEQ registrations and shares company signoff responsibility for engineering designs when required.

Past experience has included petroleum and industrial automation and instrumentation design, electrical design and commissioning supervision, industrial process control software analysis and development; PLC/SCADA programming and system commissioning; power system analysis and studies; switchgear installations; protection scheme design, programming and commissioning; motor control applications for medium and low voltages; hazardous area evaluations and design; earthing analysis and design and Australian Standards compliance audits.

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Anthony Stevens

Lead Electrical Engineer

Anthony is a highly motivated electrical engineer with 19 years’ experience across a range of industries including manufacturing, mining, utilities, oil & gas. He has been involved in all phases of engineering projects from FEED through to commissioning and operations. Throughout, he has been responsible for the safety and integrity of electrical designs and compliance with standards. Anthony has managed portfolio budgets up to $10M and led direct and matrix reports of up to 20 staff.

Anthony joined Power Control Engineers (PCE) in 2020 as a Lead Electrical Engineer. Prior to this, he was employed by WorleyParsons, where he worked across multiple industrial sites / organisations including; Hazelwood Open Cut Mine, Port Waratah Coal Services, Hunter Water Corporation & Tomago Aluminium Company.

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Goban Yogalingam

Lead Electrical Engineer

Goban is a Lead Electrical Engineer, and he has over 15 years of experience in Electrical Design Engineering. as an Electrical Lead / Protection / Commissioning / Design Engineer in small to large-scale projects including Pre-feasibility Study, FEED, Basic & Detail Design (EPC) projects for Mining, Infrastructure, Water, Wastewater & Power generation plants.

Presently he holds RPEng and RPEQ registrations and provides company signoff responsibility for engineering designs when required. He is also a certified Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV Rheinland).

He is very passionate about in bringing to life sustainability and climate change initiatives across the Australian and international energy landscape.

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Paul Doyle

Senior Electrical Engineer

Uzair Khan

Senior Electrical Engineer

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William Magnussen

Senior Electrical Engineer

Will is a Senior Electrical Engineer at Power Control Engineers, with project experience in industrial, utility, manufacturing, mining and defence sectors.

Since joining PCE in 2017, Will has gained valuable experience in electrical design (HV and LV), power system analysis, control systems integration and engineering project management. Additionally, Will has hands-on experience with the design, programming, and commissioning of various control and protection systems, including PLC, HMI and protection relays.

Away from PCE Will is studying a Master’s of Power Engineering, is a keen Oztag player and aspiring golfer.

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Ettiene Olivier

Senior Electrical Engineer

Ettiene Olivier is a Senior Electrical Engineer at Power Control Engineers and has over 14 years of experience across various industries, including secondary design for the Australian utilities sector and testing and commissioning of power generation systems in his native South Africa. Since joining PCE in early 2022, his experience has been in high voltage & low voltage electrical design (greenfield and brownfield), power system studies, protection coordination, cable calculations, AC Generator protection (scheme review and ITP development), arc flash mitigation, and engineering project management.

Ettiene is an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and disciplined individual that takes a practical, systematic, and efficient approach to solving problems; offering an extensive range of experience and expertise to meet our client’s engineering needs

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Thomas Parkinson

Senior Electrical Engineer

Tom is a Senior Electrical Engineer at Power Control Engineers and has over 15 years of experience in heavy industry.

Since 2017 he has been an electrical engineer with PCE, where his experience has been in high voltage & low voltage electrical design (greenfield and brownfield designs), power system studies, earthing & lightning protection design, arc flash mitigation, protection design, overhead line design, engineering project management, project commissioning and supervision.

Fields of experience include defence, underground coal, bulk materials handling, manufacturing, food processing, meat works, cogeneration, renewables, power generation, distribution, water and mining.

Tom has a passion for pushing high installation standards on delivered projects and for ensuring efficient use of resources in delivering cost effective design solutions for his clients. 

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Brent Stewart

Senior Electrical Engineer

Brent is an Electrical Engineer with Power Control Engineers and has over 8 years of engineering experience in utilities and renewables.

Brent’s experience has included electrical design; overhead line modelling and design; earthing design and testing; telecommunications design, configuration and testing; solar generator performance analysis and reporting; and standards development.

Since 2019 he has been an electrical engineer with PCE.

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Chris Boles

Senior ASP3 Designer

Chris is an ASP3 Associate Electrical Engineer with Power Control Engineers and has 20 years of engineering experience in Distribution and Transmission Networks. Chris has worked for NSW DNSP Ausgrid for 15 years in the construction, planning, design fields as well as 3 years managing contestable projects. Chris has 4 years of experience working as an ASP3 and has experience designing overhead, underground, street lighting projects, URD and commercial subdivision design and single and multi-transformer chamber substation design.

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Kieran Jackson

Senior ASP3 Designer

Kieran started his career in power distribution at Ausgrid in 2008. For 11 years Kieran worked within every region of Ausgrid’s franchise area across a vast array of different roles both office and field based.

A majority of Kieran’s experience is in Distribution Networks, being heavily involved in Maintenance Program Project Management, Design of Distribution Networks, and Contestable Design Certification.

Kieran joined Power Control Engineers (PCE) in 2020 as an associate Electrical Engineer.

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Joshua Bates

Electrical Engineer

Josh is a Graduate Electrical Engineer with Power Control Engineers. Since joining the team in 2020 he has gained experience in power system modelling and analysis, as well as electrical and control system design. Josh has contributed to several engineering projects including multi-site protection and arc flash analysis, LV private network design and PLC.

Josh has prior application experience in C and Matlab, obtained through various work experience within the mining services industry.

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Timothy Matthews

Electrical Engineer

Tim is an Electrical Engineer with Power Control Engineers. Since joining the team in 2022, he has specialised in LV design, specifically MCC and switchboard design.

Tim has a passion for electrical circuit design and the renewables sector. In a previous role, Tim gained 5 years experience in the design and manufacture of electronic protection relays and protection equipment for use in hazardous environments.

Elisha Mutasa

Electrical Engineer

Elisha is a Electrical Engineer with Power Control Engineers. Since joining the team in 2020 he has gained experience in power system modelling and analysis and has contributed to a wide range of engineering projects which include power station expansion and optical fibre network assessment.

Elisha has prior experience in software development for solar power system design and modelling in both Matlab and Javascript.

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Nicolas Palmiotto

Electrical Engineer

Nicholas Sain

Electrical Engineer

Nic is an Electrical Engineer at Power Control Engineers, with experience in industrial, defence, mining and manufacturing sectors. Nic joined Power Control Engineers in 2017 and completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)(Electrical and Electronic) in 2020.

Fields of engineering experience include HV and LV electrical design, power system modelling & analysis, earthing design & testing and control system design & implementation.

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Isaac Zenini

Electrical Engineer

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Colin Bode

ASP3 Designer (Trainee)

Mark Cornally

CAD Designer

Mark is an electrician by trade with over 20 years of industry experience. Mark’s experience includes projects in Water / Waste Water, Heavy Industry including Rail, Coal Mines and Power Stations. Mark has contributed in all stages from design through to commissioning. Mark is experienced in Power Distribution & Control, Automation & Instrumentation.

Mark offers a wide range of skills and expertise necessary to support our customer's engineering needs.

William Cook

Graduate Electrical Engineer

Will graduated from the University of Newcastle in January 2023 with a Bachelor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Hons)'

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Sam Pike

Graduate Electrical Engineer

Sam graduated in November 2023 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle.

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Dante Staneke

Graduate Electrical Engineer

Dante is a Graduate Electrical Engineer at Power Control Engineers, with experience in water, distribution DNSP, mining, industrial and manufacturing sectors. Dante joined Power Control Engineers in 2022 and completed his Bachelor of Engineering(Honours)(Electrical) and Bachelor of Science(Physics) in 2021.

Fields of engineering experience include detailed design of both HV and LV industrial earthing systems, lightning protection specification and design, testing and verification of industrial earthing and lightning protection systems, power system studies, protection and detailed design.

Dante is passionate about furthering his professional development in power systems engineering such that his career can make a positive impact on transitioning energy sectors.  

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Ollie Hamilton

Undergraduate Electrical Engineer

Ollie is currently studying a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle.

Jacob Mahony

Undergraduate Electrical Engineer

Jacob is currently studying a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle.

Yvonne Sarich

Administration