Project Engineer

About John Holland:

At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do.

We've always known that at its heart, infrastructure is about people - our customers, our employees, and their communities in which we work.

That's our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Program - SA Water Capital Work Delivery Contracts

In a joint venture with Guidera O'Connor, John Holland is delivering capital projects for SA Water under a four-year framework agreement for up to $500m, focused on water services across southern metropolitan Adelaide and regional areas of SA.

Together, we will deliver a diverse portfolio of projects which includes dam upgrades, water tank refurbishments, water main replacements, sewerage network upgrades and water treatment process changes, with work spread across both the metropolitan area and regions.

About the Position:

As a Project Engineer, you'll be responsible for coordinating on-site engineering functions relating to electrical engineering, to help achieve time and budget objectives as well as provide efficient support for construction activities on the SA Water Program.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the activities of an engineering team, program workloads and provide technical and administrative guidance to the engineering staff to ensure aims and objectives are effectively and economically achieved.
• Play a key role in the accurate forecasting of costs and revenue.
• Assign work and assist with reviews for accuracy and adherence to required standards of supplier/subcontractor quotations and purchase orders.
• Participate in planning future requirements including machine tools, ancillary equipment, major plant and labour.
• Review design and construction plans, schedules, and method statements to ensure constructability.
• Monitor project progress against the programme and budget.
• Effectively assign task. to project team members to deliver the requirement outputs to agreed specifications.
• Prepare accurate project reports.

Key Requirements:

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering (or similar such as Electronic Engineering).
• 5-10 years' site based experience, gained with a principal contractor.
• Experience working on water infrastructure projects (water treatment, dams, pipelines, pump stations etc) or similar is advantageous.
• Leadership ability to provide mentorship to direct reports.
• Demonstrated commercial experience to include planning and reporting on progress, cost and risk.
• Demonstrated personal commitment to health and safety.

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we're committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What's in it for you when you join John Holland?

We're about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

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. We've also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.

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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