Site Engineer

CPB Contractors is Australia’s leading contractor and the largest infrastructure construction company in our region. Part of the CIMIC Group, we are proud to be constructing Australia’s future and do so collaboratively with our partners and clients.

We hire for careers, not project life. CPB Contractors has more than 50 major building and infrastructure projects in delivery, across all key sectors of the construction industry, including health facilities, correctional centres and defence infrastructure, roads, bridges, rail, tunnelling, airports, and resources, providing you with career opportunities for years to come.

The Project

With an exciting pipeline of projects on the region, CPB Contractors is recruiting experienced Site Engineers for a newly awarded $600M project based in Townsville, QLD.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for experienced Site Engineer to join the project team in Townsville. You will monitor the project plan and record progress against the program, resolve engineering issues, manage the administration of subcontractors, ensure technical matters with the project are compliant and drive a zero-harm safety culture on site.  

Our minimum requirements for this role are:

• Degree qualification in Civil Engineering
• Minimum 2-4 years engineering construction delivery experience on building projects
• Ability to apply engineering principles to comply with scope of works and technical criteria
• Absolute commitment to safety with everything you do
• Demonstrated commercial experience to include planning and reporting on progress, cost and risk
• Subcontractor management and supervision
• Interface with design management, construction delivery teams, client and external stakeholders

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds. CPB Contractors is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We’re always looking for ways to make CPB Contractors a more rewarding place to work and offer a unique set of benefits, including:

• A rewarding career where we support your development, training and promote from within
• Relocation and living away from home allowances for resources from outside the Townsville region
• Opportunities across other major projects in the Townsville region along with other construction sectors nationally so that there is always an opportunity suitable for the next stage in your career
• Competitive remuneration and excellent benefits including a health and wellbeing program, discount portal and company-funded salary continuance insurance

Please note: This role is being sourced through CPB Contractors directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.

How to apply

Applications close

20 Nov 2026 E. Australia Standard Time