Regional Engineering

Join a Tier 1 constructor with a proud 60 year history delivering creative infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand. As Regional Engineering & Quality Manager SA/WA, you'll lead the technical excellence that underpins our work, from tender through to delivery and completion while enjoying an exceptional work environment.

About the Role

As part of the Regional Management Team, you'll provide strategic technical leadership across multiple projects and tenders, ensuring best-practice engineering, design governance and quality outcomes. You'll champion collaboration between engineering, construction and quality teams, lifting technical capability and strengthening our reputation for innovation and delivery excellence.

What You'll Enjoy

You'll be based in either our Perth office overlooking the Swan River or our Adelaide office with sweeping Adelaide Hills views, both modern, well-appointed workplaces designed to foster collaboration, flexibility and wellbeing. Enjoy access to breakout spaces, end-of-trip facilities and a supportive leadership team that values balance and connection.

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide senior technical oversight across tendering, design, delivery and completions phases.
• Lead a high-performing engineering community across projects, embedding best-practice systems and continuous improvement.
• Partner with the Regional GM and Project Leads to identify and manage engineering risks, ensuring compliance and governance.
• Drive quality performance and ensure projects are set up for successful completion and handover.
• Engage with consultants, SMEs and industry partners to strengthen capability and competitiveness.
• Develop talent and build future capacity across the regional engineering function.

About You 

You're a strategic engineering leader who combines technical depth with commercial acumen. You thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced construction environment and enjoy shaping how projects are delivered. 

• Degree-qualified engineer either currently holding or with eligibility for, chartered membership (NER)
• Proven experience in senior engineering or quality leadership across major infrastructure projects.
• Strong stakeholder management – able to influence, coach and build partnerships across functions and projects.
• A proactive, people-focused leader with a passion for technical excellence and innovation.

About Us 

McConnell Dowell – Creative Construction

Our purpose is Providing a Better Life. We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people. 

From remote major resources and energy projects to city-shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high-quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

Why join us?

The work you'll do will have a tangible positive impact on people's lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that.  Because when you grow, we all grow.

McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but agile enough for you to have an influence on how we do things.

So, join us, be you, and help us create better together. Apply now

We are an equal opportunity employer. People of all ages, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities & cultures including Aboriginal, and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre-employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks.

This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies.