Position Objectives
The Project Engineer:
- Contributes to the organisation’s capital investment decisions for infrastructure including asset planning, asset
reliability and optimisation. Investment decisions will address the current and future servicing needs and challenges
of our region, including climate change, growth, resilience, and adaptation.
- Provides engineering related advice to the Corporation so that it can make informed decision regarding urban
water and wastewater needs.
- Leads the delivery of projects within the Capital Program through all aspects of the Project Management
Framework.
- Contributes to the development of the organisation’s technical specification and engineering standards.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Developing the Corporation's capital infrastructure projects in accordance with required regulatory frameworks,
standards, guidelines, codes of practice, procedures, and review processes.
- Ensuring the Capital Program remains informed by liaising and reporting project time, resourcing, and cost
variances through periodic review processes.
- Monitoring and reporting the financial performance of projects within the Capital Program.
- Undertaking project management activities including new infrastructure, major asset refurbishment and renewals
with systematic and documented planning, definition, design, implementation, commissioning, verification, and
start-up (CVS).
- Supporting the development and delivery of the Capital Program budgets.
- Obtaining resources, including teams of multi-disciplinary professionals, to achieve organisation infrastructure
requirements, and managing resources and specialist groups of multi-disciplinary professionals to deliver the
projects within the Capital Program.
- Leading community and stakeholder consultation in the delivery of capital projects.
- Providing accurate and current internal and external reporting when required.
- Preparing procurement documentation.
- Evaluating tender responses for conformity against defined requirements.
- Administrating contracts and acting in the role of the Superintendent’s Representative.
- Responsible for the development, currency, accuracy, and timing of infrastructure planning to inform the
Corporation’s capital investment program.
- Leading discussion with regulatory authorities to ensure alignment of both the Corporation’s and Council’s growth
projections and precinct service strategies.
- Delivering short, medium, and long-term plans to support the delivery of the Capital Investment Program.
- Developing technical specifications, engineering standards and contract requirements for capital projects.
- Maintaining project and engineering governance while liaising with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure
alignment between stakeholder needs and delivered infrastructure functionality.
- Reviewing and accepting design documentation on behalf of the Corporation.
Organisational Relationships
This role reports to the Team Leader Capital Delivery and liaises with all stakeholders as required.
Accountability and Extent of Authority
- Authority to act under Senior Engineer delegated authority within
Schedule 1 – Water Act 1989, Schedule 2 – Legislation, Regulation and Other Instruments, and Schedule 3 –
Financial Authority Delegations.
- Accountable to the Coordinator Capital Delivery (West) and required to fulfill the objectives of the position and
manage resources to ensure the attainment of objectives independent of direct management supervision.
- Accountable for the timely, effective, and compliant provision of capital delivery.
