Owners Site Representative

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We're seeking an experience Owners Site Representative to be based on-site at the Goorambat East Solar Farm to support the Project Manager in the delivery of the project by representing ENGIE's interests on the site and monitoring the construction of all EPC and connection works.

The incumbent will be accountable to the Project Manager and will ideally be based at the project site near Benalla, 2 hours from Melbourne.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and monitoring all construction activities for compliance with contractual conditions and relevant regulations and providing status updates to the Project Manager as required
• Coordination of onsite activities between EPC contractor and connection works contractor to ensure that each contractor's activities are planned in a way that minimises the impact on the other contractors
• Overseeing and monitoring the EPC contractor's implementation of all health, safety and environmental management obligations and systems on the site
• Assist the Owner's Engineering in reviewing and monitoring the quality of works delivered by the contractors, ensuring quality requirements are satisfied and any defects/non-conformances are properly captured with corrective actions properly tracked until resolution
• Responsible for ensuring ENGIE / project owner is fully compliant with all contractual obligations
• Manage and report progress against the project schedule
• Represent ENGIE, establish and maintain excellent working relationships with all external stakeholders including the local community, landowners, regulatory bodies
• Identify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Proactively develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these
• Review and endorse final punch lists for each work package.

About You:

To be successful in this role, you will have experience with onsite construction management of renewable energy infrastructure projects, particularly solar. You have gained sound project and contract management experience for construction projects and able to work under pressure to meet scheduled and demanding timelines.

You can ensure accountability, communicate effectively and balance stakeholders.

Next Steps

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply with a covering letter, together with your up-to-date resume.

All applicants must have unlimited rights to work in Australia.

Please note we consider applications on an ongoing basis and therefore encourage you to apply at your earliest opportunity.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, carer's responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, marital status, health, disability or political opinions. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people of the LGBTIQA+ community are encouraged to apply. Our differences are our strengths

About ENGIE Australia & New Zealand:

ENGIE has operated in Australia since 1996 and is supporting the transition to a carbon-neutral economy by providing energy solutions to households, businesses and communities.

Globally, ENGIE has been driving innovation for more than 180 years. Today, ENGIE is changing the face of energy and services by creating and developing a diverse range of energy solutions, supported by global expertise, and delivered by local teams who understand their local markets.

In Australia we have an ambitious goal – to achieve net zero by 2045 by deploying renewable energy, hydrogen, storage and e-mobility infrastructure at pace, while leading the transformation from coal-fired power to a clean energy future at our Hazelwood Rehabilitation Project.

We have more than 1,000MW of low-carbon generation capacity and almost 3,000MW of renewable energy under development. Our retail business has more than 700,000 customer accounts across Australia.

ENGIE's trading arm, Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides low-energy supply agreements, energy trading, risk management and asset management services to business customers.

Our Business Units

Thermal & Supply

• Simply Energy is one of Australia's fastest growing energy retailers, with more than 700,000 electricity and gas customer accounts in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.
• Simply Energy offers simple and affordable energy plans for Australian households and businesses.
  They offer 100% carbon neutral plans certified by Climate Active where carbon emissions are offset from energy usage.
• Our gas power plants in South Australia are an essential component of our strategy to achieve a sustainable energy future, and we remain committed to optimizing their performance and reducing emissions while we invest in the energy systems of tomorrow.
• The Hazelwood Rehabilitation Project is a dedicated business stream leading the safe, stable and sustainable rehabilitation of the former Hazelwood Power Station and Mine, which ceased operation in 2017.

Renewables

• With 165MW of operating wind farms in South Australia and 3000MW of identified pipeline of solar, wind and large-scale batteries under development, ENGIE is making a sizeable contribution to the progress of renewable energy production in Australia.
• We strive for operational excellence in all aspects of green hydrogen production, including process design, equipment selection, and when up and operational in the optimization of our asset infrastructure. ENGIE and Mitsui are developing one of the world's first industrial-scale renewable hydrogen projects to provide feedstock into Yara Pilbara Fertilisers' (Yara) existing ammonia operations near Karratha in Western Australia.

Energy Solutions

• ENGIE is building the future of electric vehicle fast charging stations in Australia for both fleets and the public. ENGIE is aiming to be operating 300 charging points across Australia by 2024. With approximately 1,000 charge points scheduled to be installed by 2025, this will mean the ENGIE public rapid charger network will be accessible within 10km for around 80% of the Australian population, and our Fleet network will be helping business and government to accelerate their decarbonisation goals.

Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS)

• GEMS provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE's assets and contributing to value creation.
• ENGIE is leading the Australian green corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) market, with several high-profile partnerships including Coles, Pepsi, L'Oréal Australia, Sanitarium, Veolia and NAB.

Division: REN AMEA - Australia

Legal Entity: INTERNATIONAL POWER (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Type: Full - Time

Professional Experience: Skilled ( >3 experience