This role will suit someone who enjoys taking ownership of end‑to‑end project delivery, working across multidisciplinary teams and seeing projects through from concept to commissioning and handover.
You will play a key role in shaping project execution, managing risk, cost and schedule, and ensuring high engineering and safety standards are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead standalone projects or discrete work packages from concept through to commissioning and handover
- Develop project charters, execution plans, scopes of work, schedules and budgets
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and operations readiness
- Manage project risk, decision registers, actions and reporting throughout delivery
- Chair project meetings, track actions and communicate progress to senior stakeholders
- Engage, manage and evaluate suppliers, vendors and contractors, including contract administration
- Oversee procurement activities to ensure quality, cost and schedule outcomes
- Support site-based construction and commissioning activities as required
- Ensure all works comply with Australian and relevant international standards
- Maintain a strong commitment to HSSE and zero-harm principles
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or similar)
- 7+ years’ experience in project engineering or project management roles
- Background delivering multidisciplinary projects, ideally within energy, infrastructure or resources sectors
- Strong capability across detailed design, construction and commissioning phases
- Excellent organisational, leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to manage budgets, schedules and project risk
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, technically complex environments
- Exposure to Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum) is highly regarded
- Opportunity to lead technically interesting and innovative projects
- High level of autonomy and ownership across project delivery
- Collaborative, professional engineering environment
- Long-term career development within a stable project pipeline
For more information about this opportunity, please click APPLY or contact Melvern on 08 94374400 or via email on melvern.manuksuk@drdgroup.com.au
DRD Group is a specialist recruitment provider renowned for recruiting quality project teams on major projects within the Energy, Resources, Defense, Renewables and Infrastructure sectors.
DRD Group embraces a diverse workforce culture and encourages female and Indigenous applicants to apply. All work assignments are subject to successful completion of a medical, drug and alcohol screen plus verification of all original certifications and qualifications