Senior Project Engineer

Patch Personnel Pty Ltd

City of Brisbane

On-site

AUD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Patch Personnel Pty Ltd is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead the site engineering team on an energy and infrastructure project in Brisbane. The role involves delivering work packages from design to handover and coordinating procurement and interfaces across multiple disciplines.

You will manage planning, progress, and constructability reviews, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring compliance to project baselines and safety standards.

Qualifications

Experience leading site engineering teams in oil and gas projects.
Background working for a contractor on large-scale projects.
Tertiary qualification in an Engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

Lead the site engineering team and deliver work packages from design through handover.
Manage construction planning and scheduling against project baselines.
Review IFC drawings, specs, and scopes for constructability and readiness.
Coordinate procurement, scopes, and subcontractor interfaces.
Monitor costs, forecasts, and variations; manage commercial matters.
Lead SIMOPS coordination with contractors and stakeholders.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring to project staff.

Skills

Leadership

Oil & gas experience

Contractor background

Team mentoring

Education

Engineering degree (tertiary)

Job description

An opportunity is available to join and energy and infrastructure services company in the role of Senior Project Engineer.

The Company has extensive operations across Australia's onshore gas, pipeline and renewable energy sectors.

This role's POH is Brisbane and offers a 18/10 roster.

Responsibilities will include

Lead the site engineering team and delivery of assigned work packages from design and procurement through construction, testing, completion and handover.
Manage construction planning and scheduling, including MSP programmes, construction trackers, look-ahead schedules and progress monitoring against project baselines.
Lead the review of IFC drawings, specifications, scopes of work and other technical documentation to confirm constructability, compliance and readiness for construction.
Identify engineering, constructability and interface issues and coordinate their resolution with the Client, design consultants, construction teams and relevant project stakeholders.
Manage technical queries, design changes and engineering interfaces throughout construction, ensuring changes are appropriately assessed, documented and communicated.
Coordinate procurement activities for assigned packages, including preparation and review of scopes, technical evaluations, bid analysis and management of subcontractor and supplier interfaces.
Monitor package costs, commitments and forecasts, identify potential cost and schedule impacts, and support the management of variations and commercial matters.
Lead coordination of SIMOPS and interfaces with other contractors, stakeholders and operational activities to minimise impacts to project delivery.
Work closely with Construction, Quality, HSE and Survey teams to resolve issues and ensure project requirements are achieved.
Identify and manage project risks and opportunities, including safety, quality, environmental, engineering, schedule and constructability risks.
Investigate and drive the close-out of technical, safety, quality and environmental issues arising during project execution.
Monitor construction progress and proactively identify constraints, delays and emerging risks, developing and implementing mitigation and recovery actions where required.
Provide technical guidance, leadership and mentoring to Project Engineers, Field Engineers and other members of the project team.