Senior Project Engineer

Transport for NSW; Tamworth Regional Council; On-site; AUD 154,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport for NSW is seeking a permanent full-time professional to lead the delivery of regional road infrastructure projects and maintenance across Tamworth region. The role involves travel to Glen Innes and Tenterfield, ensuring on-time delivery, safety, quality and budget compliance while coordinating with contractors and stakeholders.

You will lead and develop diverse teams, foster a strong safety culture, and manage contracts and reporting to support compliance and project success.

Qualifications

• Four-year Engineering degree from an Australian university or equivalent.
• Experience delivering civil road infrastructure projects and maintenance.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to manage project teams and stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel and work outside normal hours when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safe and effective delivery of road infrastructure projects and maintenance programs across regional NSW, ensuring time, cost, quality and scope targets are met.
• Develop delivery plans and schedules, coordinating activities, teams, contractors and service providers across multiple locations.
• Manage customer communication and build productive relationships with contractors, stakeholders and regional communities; administer contracts and ensure WHS and environmental compliance.
• Lead and develop diverse teams, promote safety culture, support wellbeing and build team capability.

Skills

Project leadership

Contract administration

Stakeholder communication

Site management

Education

Engineering degree (4-year)

Job description

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Projects

Job location: South Tamworth, NSW, AU, 2340

Job reference number: 111672

Employment type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary range: $153678.0-$167946.0

You’re someone who wants to create outcomes that have a real impact on the people of NSW.

You’ll tackle challenges head-on, utilising your technical expertise to build sustainable, innovative, and resilient solutions from start to finish.

In this role, you’ll:

• Lead the safe and effective delivery of road infrastructure projects and maintenance programs across regional NSW, ensuring agreed time, cost, quality and scope requirements are achieved.


• Develop delivery plans and schedules and coordinate project activities, teams, contractors and service providers across multiple locations.


• Manage customer communication and build productive relationships with contractors, stakeholders and regional communities throughout project delivery. You’ll administer contracts, monitor project performance and implement appropriate systems, processes and reporting to support work health and safety and environmental compliance.


• Lead and develop diverse teams by promoting a strong safety culture, encouraging collaboration, supporting wellbeing and building team capability.

This is a permanent full‑time role based in Tamworth, supporting road maintenance and construction projects in Glen Innes and Tenterfield. The role involves regular site‑based travel and working away from home. As Transport for NSW takes employee health, safety and fatigue management seriously, you must reside within a reasonable distance of the Tamworth office.

We’re looking for someone who has an affinity to regional NSW. You will be passionate about promoting and enabling a continuous connection with regional NSW and you’ll be inspired by the opportunity to make regional NSW a better place to live, work and enjoy.

• You hold a four-year Engineering Degree from an Australian university, or an equivalent overseas qualification, and are willing to travel and work outside normal business hours when required.


• Your experience delivering civil road infrastructure projects and maintenance programs, supported by knowledge of project management, procurement, tendering and contract administration, will enable you to manage complex delivery requirements and competing priorities.


• You bring strong technical knowledge of infrastructure construction and maintenance, together with the leadership and communication skills to manage project teams and labour workforces, mentor Project Engineers, prioritise workloads, allocate resources and build productive relationships with contractors, stakeholders and regional communities.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers .

This is an in‑person, on‑site role.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Transport acknowledges the Aboriginal people of the country on which we work, their traditions, culture and a shared history and identity. We also pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise the continued connection to country.