Senior Project Engineer - Landfill

REPURPOSE IT P/L; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Repurpose It is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to own technical interfaces across a highly regulated landfill and resource recovery operation at Botanic Ridge. You will oversee civil, environmental and site-improvement projects, in collaboration with an experienced site operations contractor.

This hands-on role requires delivering environmental and site improvements, ensuring regulator compliance, contractor performance and practical outcomes through strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• A degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical or related Engineering.
• Experience in a highly regulated operational environment with relevance to landfill, waste or resource recovery.
• Strong knowledge of earthworks, infrastructure, risk and project delivery in live operating environments.
• Experience overseeing contractors or major service providers and managing compliance issues.
• Strong stakeholder communication with regulators, environmental specialists and teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as Repurpose It’s technical interface with the contractor responsible for day-to-day site operations, monitoring performance against contractual, safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Scope, plan and deliver landfill, operational, environmental and site-improvement projects, including technical scopes, specifications, cost estimates, risk assessments, design reviews, assurance and handover.
• Provide technical oversight across cell development, geotechnical works, leachate and landfill-gas infrastructure.
• Coordinate day-to-day EPA and environmental matters, regulatory commitments and broader stakeholder issues, ensuring actions and risks are tracked through to resolution.
• Provide technical leadership to the environmental and site interface team while working closely with consultants, civil contractors, internal teams and external stakeholders.

Skills

Civil Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Project Management

Regulated Environment

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Engineering degree (Civil/Environmental/Mechanical)

Job description

• Own the technical interface for a highly regulated landfill and resource recovery operation.
• Lead civil, environmental and site-improvement projects while working closely with an experienced site operations contractor.
• Build your exposure across engineering, EPA compliance, contractor assurance and complex stakeholder engagement.

About Repurpose It

Repurpose It is a recognised leader in the circular economy, giving new life to materials that would otherwise go to waste. We recover resources from construction and demolition, excavation, infrastructure projects and local council organics, transforming them into valuable products that support a more sustainable future.

Our values of Integrity, Future Focused, Sustainability, and Care & Protect guide everything we do. As part of our team, you’ll join a workplace focused on innovation, sustainability and supporting its people.

About the role

Based at Botanic Ridge, the Senior Project Engineer provides technical, regulatory and stakeholder oversight across a highly regulated landfill and resource recovery operation. With an appointed contractor responsible for day-to-day site operations, you will act as Repurpose It’s key technical interface, ensuring contractor performance, engineering integrity, environmental compliance and the successful delivery of environmental and site-improvement projects.

This is a hands‑on role for who is comfortable in a live operational environment and enjoys bringing together contractors, regulators, technical specialists and operational stakeholders to solve problems and deliver practical outcomes.

What we offer

• A technically varied role with genuine ownership across projects and site assurance.
• Exposure to complex operational and environmental works within a highly regulated operating environment.
• The opportunity to influence contractor performance and work directly with regulators and key stakeholders.
• Shape your career through an Individual Development Plan.
• Stable, long‑term employment with a growing circular‑economy organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Act as Repurpose It’s technical interface with the contractor responsible for day‑to‑day site operations, monitoring performance against contractual, safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Scope, plan and deliver landfill, operational, environmental and site‑improvement projects, including technical scopes, specifications, cost estimates, risk assessments, design reviews, assurance and handover.
• Provide technical oversight across cell development, geotechnical works, leachate and landfill‑gas infrastructure.
• Coordinate day‑to‑day EPA and environmental matters, regulatory commitments and broader stakeholder issues, ensuring actions and risks are tracked through to resolution.
• Provide technical leadership to the environmental and site interface team while working closely with consultants, civil contractors, internal teams and external stakeholders.

About you

• A degree in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical or a related Engineering discipline, viewed favourably.
• Demonstrated engineering or technical project experience within a highly regulated operational environment; experience in landfill, waste, resource recovery, quarrying, mining, heavy industry or civil infrastructure will be highly relevant.
• Strong practical knowledge of earthworks, infrastructure, technical risk and project delivery within live operating environments.
• Experience overseeing contractors or major service providers, with the confidence to challenge performance and manage technical, commercial and compliance issues.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, including experience engaging regulators, environmental specialists, consultants, contractors and operational teams.

Repurpose It exists to make premium quality repurposed materials accessible to everyone. We recover resources and give them new life via Construction and Demolition, Excavation and Drilling, Road and Rail, Infrastructure Projects, Local Councils, Food and Organics, Construction and Landscaping materials. By partnering with the public and private sectors, our best practice technologies connect waste disposal to materials supply to ensure we deliver a truly closed loop solution to our clients. We invest in technology to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases and environmental degradation to protect the planet for future generations.

Repurpose It exists to make premium quality repurposed materials accessible to everyone. We recover resources and give them new life via Construction and Demolition, Excavation and Drilling, Road and Rail, Infrastructure Projects, Local Councils, Food and Organics, Construction and Landscaping materials. By partnering with the public and private sectors, our best practice technologies connect waste disposal to materials supply to ensure we deliver a truly closed loop solution to our clients. We invest in technology to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases and environmental degradation to protect the planet for future generations.