Senior / Lead Project Engineer

Lycopodium; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Career progression and skill growth

Benefits platform with discounts

Job summary

Lycopodium is seeking a Lead/Senior Project Engineer based in Brisbane to lead planning, design, evaluation, execution and handover of major Mineral Processing Plants projects in an EPCM setting. Reporting to the Group Manager - Project Delivery, you will drive safety, quality and stakeholder engagement across Clients, Vendors and internal teams, ensuring compliance with codes and standards.

You’ll apply your 7+ years of postgraduate experience and a Mechanical Engineering background to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably mechanical engineering.
• Min 7 years’ postgraduate experience in a similar position, ideally within an EPCM environment.
• Experience working on Mineral Processing Plants (gold, lithium, copper, nickel) or similar capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience working with modularisation including in design, procurement, transport and project implementation.
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including Clients, Vendors and Co-workers.
• Proactively seek and accept guidance and feedback provided by subject matter experts.
• Determination and drive to achieve objectives through continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with ensuring compliance with the project specific requirements and current industry work codes and standards.
• Contributing to project control activities including scheduling, forecasting and other deliverables to a consistently high standard.
• Assisting with and perform procurement, inspection and expediting activities.
• Carrying out assigned project activities, including site engineer duties, in a manner that priorities safety, environment, community and industrial relations.
• Assisting the Project Manager in developing and maintaining the project quality management facility to ensure project quality targets and reporting are met.
• Contributing to the preparation of construction reports, contracts and schedules, managing tender and contract documentation for review in accordance with quality assurance.

Skills

Project management

Mechanical design

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (preferably mechanical)

Job description

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, South America, Southern Africa, Ghana and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Reporting to the Group Manager - Project Delivery, the Lead/Senior Project Engineers will provide technical assistance in the planning, designing, evaluating, executing and handover of the assigned projects in accordance with Company, Client and Project requirements.

The tasks you'll perform

• Assisting with ensuring compliance with the project specific requirements and current industry work codes and standards.
• Contributing to project control activities including scheduling, forecasting and other deliverables to a consistently high standard.
• Assisting with and perform procurement, inspection and expediting activities.
• Carrying out assigned project activities, including site engineer duties, in a manner that priorities safety, environment, community and industrial relations.
• Assisting the Project Manager in developing and maintaining the project quality management facility to ensure project quality targets and reporting are met.
• Contributing to the preparation of construction reports, contracts and schedules, managing tender and contract documentation for review in accordance with quality assurance.

The expertise you'll bring

• Bachelor of Engineering, preferably mechanical engineering.
• Min 7 years’ postgraduate experience in a similar position, ideally within an EPCM environment.
• Experience working on Mineral Processing Plants (gold, lithium, copper, nickel) or similar capital projects will be highly regarded.
• Demonstrated experience working with modularisation including in design, procurement, transport and project implementation
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including Clients, Vendors and Co-workers.
• Proactively seek and accept guidance and feedback provided by subject matter experts.
• Determination and drive to achieve objectives through continued professional development.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we:

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.