Site Engineer - Road Asset Maintenance

Location: Sydney NSW Type: Permanent, Full-Time

About the Role

We're recruiting a Site Engineer to join a specialist road infrastructure maintenance contractor operating under a long-term government performance contract. This role owns the scheduling backbone of project delivery, setting up and maintaining multi-level project schedules, tracking progress against baseline, and keeping design, cost and site establishment activities moving in lockstep.

You'll work closely with the Project Delivery team, with direct exposure to site and hands-on responsibility for the design, cost and reporting elements that keep works on program and on budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain multi-level project schedules, updating progress against baseline and reporting on variances
• Manage budget, cost control and earned value for the relevant scope of work, including revenue and cost-to-complete forecasting
• Plan and implement site establishment activities to meet site-specific and contractual requirements
• Manage delivery of engineering design activities through to completion, ensuring deliverables are submitted on time, to budget and to quality standard
• Prepare, update and implement the Design Management Plan for the project
• Ensure timesheets for staff and subcontractors are completed and authorised in a timely manner, and contribute to weekly, fortnightly and monthly reporting
• Liaise with clients, site personnel, vendors, subcontractors and suppliers on design, documentation and site delivery issues
• Coordinate with external parties and statutory authorities as required
• Ensure technical, program, quality, environmental, community, industrial, safety and commercial obligations are met and maintained on site
• Support safety leadership on site, including hazard identification, permits to work, subcontractor safety audits, and incident prevention and reporting

About You

• Bachelor of Engineering
• Current driver's licence
• 5+ years' experience in a similar role
• Demonstrated understanding of planning and scheduling functions, with good command of MS Project or similar
• Project management experience, including schedule sequencing and logical activity linkages
• Familiarity with the commercial, contractual and financial aspects of project delivery, including earned value analysis
• Experience setting up project teams and site establishment for multidiscipline projects
• Ability to work within and lead a team

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and women in engineering.

About the Employer

Our client is a specialist infrastructure services contractor delivering road asset maintenance and renewal works under a major government performance contract, with a strong focus on safety, community outcomes and continuous improvement.

Recruited by Indigenous Business Growth (IBG), a Supply Nation registered, majority Indigenous-owned specialist recruitment agency.