Senior Project Engineer

3 weeks ago

Cairns City, Queensland, Australia John Holland Full time
About John Holland

We're a leading infrastructure company that transforms lives with everything we do. Our purpose is simple: we deliver projects that make a real difference to people's lives.

At John Holland, we're passionate about creating better lives for our customers, employees, and communities. We've got a deep understanding of the infrastructure sector and a genuine care for the people we work with.

About the Project

We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Project Engineer to join our team on a major water treatment plant project in Cairns, Queensland. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a high-profile project that will provide clean water for the local community.

The project involves the construction of a new $300M+ greenfield water treatment plant and associated infrastructure. The scope includes:

  • Draper Road water treatment plant (DRWTP) – capacity of 60 megalitres (ML)/day
  • An 8 ML clear water reservoir (at RL 122 m AHD) delivering treated water into the trunk network and earthworks to accommodate future construction of a 5 ML high-level service reservoir (at RL 116 m AHD)
  • Construction of an all-weather access road from the DRWTP to the reservoir sites
  • Mulgrave River intake (Stage 1) and raw water main delivering 20 ML/day of raw water to the DRWTP
  • Upgrade to the existing Behana Creek intake and pipeline upgrades, augmentations and extensions to the Behana Creek intake treated water supply main to deliver 44ML/day raw water to the new DRWTP
  • Treated water delivery main works (including relevant valving) delivering water from the proposed DRWTP to Council's existing trunk water main network located in the Bruce Highway
  • Reticulation main works to service communities (Aloomba) and properties located south of the Mulgrave River, within Gordonvale
  • New power, telecommunications, and data services to the DRWTP, the Mulgrave River raw water intake and the Behana Creek raw water intake
  • Numerous Cane Rail crossings along with HDD and Thrust Bores under roads and water
About the Role

As a Senior Project Engineer, you will be responsible for coordinating on-site engineering functions to achieve time and budget objectives. You will work closely with the project team to ensure efficient support for construction activities.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Manage on-site engineering functions through subordinates, which may include Project Engineers, and/or Cost/Planning Engineers
  • Obtain relevant design parameter information for incorporation into detailed designs and construction specifications
  • Monitor quality and quantities of incoming equipment and material, check work drawings, construction and specifications against site plans and conditions and arrange corrections or modifications where necessary
  • Coordinate the activities of an engineering team, programme workloads and provide technical and administrative guidance to the engineering staff to ensure aims and objectives are effectively and economically achieved
  • Ensure that project engineering completion is on time and within budget. Record completed work, costs incurred, materials used and retain progress drawings
  • Undertake all tasks within the role safely, in accordance with the key elements of the JH Management System governing GMRs, HSES Policies, HSES Management Manuals, SQE Risk Management System and Our HSE Behaviours
  • Accurate forecasts of costs and revenue and utilise corrective action in line with JH's authority and reporting frameworks to maximise the profit margin
  • Assign work and assist with reviews for accuracy and adherence to required standards of supplier, subcontractor quotations/purchase orders as well as subcontractor arrangements
  • Participate in planning future requirements including machine tools, ancillary equipment, major plant and labour. Direct site surveys and preparatory work prior to construction
  • Liaise with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers and planning authorities to ensure satisfactory completion of structures and construction work
  • Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems, reporting and procedures
  • Perform all duties in accordance with Draper WTP Sustainability and wellbeing policies, processes, systems and procedures including our Corporate Sustainability Framework
  • Follow all WHS Act and Regs including Model Codes of Practice and Australian Standards
Requirements

To be successful in this key role, you must have:

  • 7+ years post graduate engineering experience with 4+ years site based
  • Experience on >$50M Projects
  • Delivered water infrastructure projects including pipeline networks
  • Advanced commercial acumen including cost reduction and meeting budgets
  • Delivery of major projects and teams to program and budget specifications
  • Understanding of the Quality Management Plan. Safety Management Plan, Environmental Management Plan and Projects Design Management Plan
  • Quantitative and qualitative safety, environment and quality risk management
  • Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management
  • People and performance management including the performance of subcontractors
  • Effective time management skills
What's in it for you?

We're committed to being an employer of choice and providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. We pride ourselves on having a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.

We offer:

  • Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options
  • Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing
  • Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities
  • Learning and development opportunities where you'll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities
  • Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that's why we're working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change
  • Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether its flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly

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