Local recruitment: Specialist Project Engineer

WaterNSW

Parramatta NSW, Australia 🇦🇺

Job No: WaterNSW2853 Location: Parramatta

Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Specialist Project Engineer (Full-Time, Permanent) to join our team in Parramatta.  

This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state.  

This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you will be supported to build a rewarding career.    

Ourperksand Benefits:   

At WaterNSW, we believe that our employees should be as well taken care of as our rivers, dams, and pipelines, that is why we offer a load of benefits.     

  • Flexible working  
  • Fertility leave  
  • Yearly corporate wear allowance  
  • Professional development and educational assistance  
  • Attractive remuneration  
  • And so much more! 

Whatyoulldo:   

  • Lead the development and implementation of technical/engineering solutions across multiple projects and programs; leading all interactions with design consultants and providing technical oversight and risk guidance through project delivery.  
  • Coaching/Knowledge Sharing: Provide technical support and leadership in solving complex design and engineering solutions. Provide guidance and mentorship through their effective facilitation and mediation.  
  • Risk Management: Work with the Project Team and stakeholders to establish and mitigate risks early in solution development, ensuring that high impact design decisions and interdisciplinary efforts are coordinated early in the project lifecycle. Evaluate, monitor, and minimise risk on projects and ensure effective solutions are achieved and project objectives are met, with consideration of Delivery, System, Business, Safety and Environmental Risk.   
  • Technical Delivery: Make recommendations based on technical experience and expertise and confirm project work scope, options, design approach and verification, whilst effectively managing design consultants and contractors.  
  • Quality Assurance: Produce and review documents, records, and assessments to justify engineering related decisions, results, and records to meet corporate Quality expectations, Australian Standards, and best practice. Contribute to continuous improvement of quality assurance practices across Project Delivery by conducting document and quality checks, audits, and peer reviews.  
  • Provide specialist technical support, mentoring, guidance, and recommendations across all project phases to the Project Engineering and Asset Delivery team to enhance engineering knowledge and support overall technical development across Project Engineering.    

What we are looking for:      

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in the relevant engineering discipline and must have Chartered Engineering status with Engineers Australia or recognised equivalent. 
  • Extensive experience in managing the design and engineering aspects of multiple multidisciplinary infrastructure projects through construction and completion. 
  • Drive to create an inclusive technical development and mentoring culture.  
  • Extensive knowledge of Engineering Design and project delivery Risk management practices, and industry best practices and standards as they relate to quality assurance processes systems and methods. 
  • Extensive knowledge of relevant core assets such as dams, water regulating structures, bridges, roads, canals, embankments, buildings, and cranes etc. 
  • Well-developed, demonstrated approach to navigating complex and/or high-risk technical problems and demonstrated clear decision-making to achieve effective outcomes.  
  • Expertise in stakeholder engagement, communication, and meeting facilitation.  
  • A current NSW Driver’s License. 

How we will support you: 

At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility – and the way we work – with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals.

When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you’re required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be achieved in other ways, such as through a condensed work week.

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and are committed to providing equal opportunities for women. Visit our WORK180 page to access our benefits and career development opportunities.

More about our team/ culture:

No matter how or where you work, safety is the number one priority. This means the physical and mental safety of you, your colleagues, and the public.

Who is WaterNSW? 

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.   

We’re the people taking care of the state’s water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering. Find out more at waternsw.com.au 

For more information, please reach out to: Rory Hukins – rory.hukins@waternsw.com.au

Please note applications for this position will close on the 5th February 2025.

Click for Position Description – Please note this can only be accessed on the WaterNSW Careers Page. 

You must have full work rights in Australia to qualify for all positions at WaterNSW.  

  We are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant. 


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