Title:  Senior Project Engineer

About John Holland

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

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

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

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the opportunity

We are expanding our Sunshine Coast operations significantly, to reflect the enormous State and Federal Government investment into the Sunshine Coast over the next 10-15 years.

As part of this growth, we are looking for a Senior Project Engineer to coordinate on-site engineering functions relating to hard rock drill and blast tunnelling, to achieve time and budget objectives and provide efficient support for construction activities.

Responsibilities of the role include

• Manage on-site engineering functions through subordinates, including site engineers, project engineers and cost / planning resources
• 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
• Produce accurate forecasts of costs and revenue
• Participate in planning future requirements including machine tools, ancillary equipment, major plant and labour
• Liaise with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers and planning authorities to ensure satisfactory completion of structures and construction work

To be successful in this key role, you must have

• A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
• 5 years tunnelling experience, with experience with hard rock drill and blast tunnelling ideal
• 7-10+ years' postgraduate experience, ideally in a tier one contractor setting
• 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 can help us 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 we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to 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

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 it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.