Principal Process Engineer

KBR Careers; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry leading salaries

Flexible work arrangements

Salary packaging and novated leases

Paid professional membership fees

Life/Health insurance discounts

Employee stock purchase plans

Paid parental leave

Career development plans

Growth and promotion opportunities

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Principal Process Engineer for Melbourne to lead the detailed design of major water and wastewater plants, mentor engineers, and manage client relationships. You will contribute to national projects across Victoria and Australia, advancing digital and design excellence within water infrastructure.

Join a team delivering pipelines, pumping stations, and advanced treatment facilities, with opportunities to influence strategy and engage with key utilities, while upholding KBR’s

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing water and wastewater treatment plants for major utilities.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex processes into constructible designs.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership of multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the detailed design of large water and wastewater treatment plants with technical and commercial leadership.
• Provide technical guidance across RO, PRW, UV, and digestion processes.
• Lead investigations and prepare reports, drawings, and contract documents.

Skills

Detailed design

Process engineering

Water & wastewater

Commercial acumen

People leadership

Job description

Principal Process Engineer

We support water customers across Australia to provide our communities with the best drinking water and wastewater treatment services, whilst innovating ways to safeguard and secure our country’s water supplies, elevating public spaces and enhancing liveability.

The Opportunity

You’ll be a key member of our Melbourne water team, supporting projects that are helping shape the future of water infrastructure across Victoria and Australia. Our Water team offers services across the full water cycle, delivering major pipelines, large pumping stations, and advanced water, wastewater and recycled water treatment plants.

KBR has significant work in hand supporting key water utilities such as Melbourne Water, South East Water, Sydney Water, WaterNSW, SA Water, Seqwater, Urban Utilities and Unitywater to achieve phased savings in capital expenditure while delivering the best environmental and community outcomes.

We have long‑term panel contracts across consulting, design and construction, enabling us to offer opportunities from strategy development and planning through all stages of design and into construction and commissioning support.

You will play a vital role in not only the local Melbourne team, but also the national water business, leading projects, mentoring people, providing technical oversight and managing client relationships on a range of projects across the country.

KBR is exploring new ways to integrate digital engineering, virtual reality and artificial intelligence into projects, providing opportunities to future‑proof and broaden your skills in the digital sphere.

Who are you?

You are a detailed design focused Principal Process Engineer who is motivated by achievement and outcome orientated. Your experience with design practices for water & wastewater treatment plants across major utilities will be champinoed. You possess a pragmatic approach to the development of constructable design solutions and have proven commercial acumen in the delivery of water infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the detailed design of large water and wastewater treatment plants, showing technical, commercial and people leadership
• Technical adviser across RO, PRW, UV, aerobic and anaerobic digestion - detailed design phases
• Lead investigations, and preparation of technical reports, designs and drawings, contract documents and technical specifications
• Provide guidance to process engineers across the company
• Responsibility for maintaining relationship with clients
• Assisting the Industry Leads in business strategy development
• Lead the preparation of large and small bids
• Promote and practice KBR’s Zero Harm policy

Who are we?

KBR’s Infrastructure Services Australia business offers a wide range of professional services to private and public sector clients delivering projects in both urban and remote environments across transport, water, environment, buildings and defence.

We are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset that drives innovation within our business, for our customers and stakeholders.

Our continued growth allows us to offer unrivalled opportunities to our staff in terms of career paths, career development and project exposure.

At KBR, we value you – here’s how. While our people are busy delivering leading science, technology, and engineering solutions, we’re committed to providing them with a supportive, trusting environment and benefits that enable them to thrive and continue doing what they do best.

Benefits

• Industry leading salaries reviewed annually.
• Flexible work arrangements (start/finish times, WFH, Flex time)
• Salary packaging and novated leases
• Paid professional membership fees
• Life/Health insurance discounts
• Employee stock purchase plans
• Paid parental leave
• Personal career development plans
• Growth and promotion opportunities

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