Title:  Principal Temporary Works 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.

Are you up for the challenge?

We are currently looking for an experienced Principal Temporary Works Engineer join our Temporary Works team, within the Construction Engineering division. The role can be based out of our Pyrmont office in Sydney, or our Flinders Gate office in Melbourne.

This strategic role will lead the identification and development of the safest, most efficient, and innovative Temporary Works solutions across major infrastructure, rail, and building projects.

You will influence bids and delivery outcomes from pre-contracts through to delivery, drive both internal and external design development, and manage and coordinate external temporary works consultants. You will develop concepts, review a broad range of packages, certify temporary works designs and provide proof engineering verifications, as well as engaging with key stakeholders including clients, consultants, and cross-functional project teams to ensure successful project outcomes.

About the Role:

• Provide holistic Temporary Works support across the Engineering Lifecycle, with focus on complex projects within pre-contracts, project launch/ setup and enabling delivery teams throughout construction
• Engage with projects across Rail, Infrastructure and Buildings groups to influence the design and delivery of Temporary Works across projects.
• Develop high level staging and sequence of works, ensuring consistency in design and engineering management practice and knowledge sharing
• Propose construction methodology solutions to effectively deliver high risk activities
• Identify technical risks or opportunities which may impact the successful delivery of projects in delivery
• Ensure constructability in the permanent works Design and the Construction programme
• Early-stage engagement to develop efficient and technically validated Temporary Works concept solutions, including technical input into design briefs so these can be issued to external Temporary Works consultants for detailed design, documentation and certification
• Undertake reviews of external Temporary Works consultant or sub-contractor certified Temporary Works designs for high-risk Temporary Works packages
• Challenge or optimisation of Temporary Works designs or construction methodologies
• Temporary tender / project secondments to manage high-risk Temporary Works packages, or provide technical guidance to the delivery team
• Provide advice and cost-effective technical solutions which meet John Holland quality, safety and risk requirements
• Ability to use engineering expertise and problem-solving skills to resolve new technical challenges not previously encountered
• Influence and provide technical support to onsite engineering functions ensuring client specifications are met in relation to design, supply, procurement and installation of Temporary Works.
• Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the continued engagement with the Construction Engineering team
• Manage, plan, coordinate and conduct professional engineering works without supervision
• Assist John Holland project compliance with the procedures and processes developed to support the safe delivery of Temporary Works, assist HSEQ team with project audits and incident investigations
• Understand and highlight where project specifications and contractual requirements relating to Temporary Works present project delivery risk, and ensure these are adequately captured during tender
• Facilitate specific Temporary Works training courses focusing on upskilling and educating the workforce on Temporary Works, production of technical notices and ensuring the business continues to learn (and benefit) from past projects

About You:

This position will require you to hold a degree qualification in Civil or Structural Engineering and be a Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartership with Engineer’s Australia.  You bring extensive experience specialising in design and engineering of various Temporary Works and construction methods including major or complex projects.

To succeed in this role, you will have advanced design and analysis capabilities, using software including SpaceGass, Strand7, etc, as well as design   It is essential that you have extensively used and applied various Australian Standards and industry requirements and that you are experienced in the management and coordination of Engineers and Drafting teams to deliver Temporary Works design solutions.

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.

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.