Success Profile

Senior Project Engineer

Role Overview:

The Senior Project Engineer, within the Engineering business unit is focused upon defining, designing and implementing
infrastructure construction projects. This position plays a key role in supporting the delivery of the Corporation’s capital
investment program by dynamically responding and leading in an environment of emerging needs. This role reports to
Senior Project Engineer (Coordinator).

Key mindsets for success:

 Committed to advancing and supporting people to succeed.

 Consistent in interactions with people and in applying processes.

 Provide empathy for people and be willing to place oneself in another person’s position.

 Accountable for one’s own actions and responsibilities and playing your part for the success of the
organisation.

 Cooperative with others to work towards the Corporation’s common goals.

You will seek to create and maintain an environment in which you, and your project teams, will contribute to creating a
legacy of engineering infrastructure achievement that will last for generations, by embracing a diverse working environment
which values professional standing, collaboration and personal development.

Although you have reached a high level of project leadership and engineering proficiency, the pursuit of quality continues
from here. With the support and resources of North East Water, you will be able to respond dynamically and efficiently to
emerging work situations.

As the successful leader you get to:

 Influence and encourage an inclusive and equitable working environment where our people can perform at their
optimum and autonomous best.

 Partner with the business to develop and maintain an environment for our people that is safe, healthy and
supports the expansion of our people’s skills.

 Provide leadership that encourages others to build relationships and partner with oneself.

You get to achieve these outcomes:

Water infrastructure assets are inherently long lived, so their design and operation must be underpinned by
sound, professionally engineered solutions, and confidence in the capability to do this consistently is a key
outcome. To achieve this outcome, it requires systematic principals of engineering and project management to
be adhered to in the development and delivery of significant investment projects, year on year.
You will create certainty via remaining cognisant of the status of your team’s allocated projects thus enabling the
delivery of infrastructure within acceptable limits of accuracy surrounding time and cost estimates.
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You get to be accountable for:

You will be responsible for maintaining project and engineering governance while liaising with a broad range of
stakeholders to ensure alignment between stakeholder needs and delivered infrastructure functionality. You will
strive to ensure project delivery is achieved, and will have the drive to pursue innovative and non-traditional
technology options where appropriate.

You are accountable for responding rapidly to emerging needs of stakeholders and third parties to enable safe, efficient,
integrated water systems that are engineered and procured to enable the investment programs defined benefits to be
realised for our region, its centres and communities.

You are accountable for the currency, accuracy, resourcing and timing of project delivery to ensure the Corporations’ capital
investment program remains relevant and benefits are realised by:-

 Making sure professional engineering standards and ethics are maintained through the continuing professional
development (CPD) of yourself and your team, thus allowing the Corporation’s interests in Public Construction to
be informed and represented.

 Ensuring the Corporation’s capital infrastructure projects are delivered in accordance with required internal and
external frameworks, procedures and review processes.

 Ensuring the systematic analysis and evaluation of infrastructure problems to enable the translation of stakeholder
needs into engineering design parameters and specifications suitable for public construction procurement.

 Ensuring engineering and project management are practiced from a basis of adequate knowledge, in accordance
with legislations, codes of practice, standards and industry accepted best practices.

 Ensuring ethics underpins and defines the values and principles that shape the decisions you and your team make
in engineering and project management practice.

 Ensuring commercial interests and obligations are governed and administered in accordance with contractual and
Public Construction requirements

 Ensuring the Capital Investment Program remains informed by liaising and reporting project time and cost
variances and participate in periodic review processes.

 Meeting internal and external status reporting obligations associated with projects.

Qualifications & Credentials for Success are:

You must hold a tertiary qualification recognised by Engineers Australia in an engineering discipline relevant to the role
(civil, mechanical, environmental or chemical).

You will have obtained via sufficient relevant experience, or be considered eligible to achieve, Chartered status by Engineers
Australia (Associate, Technologist, Engineer levels), as a mark that you are recognised globally, by our community, industry
and Government as Professional.

You must have a minimum of 10 years relevant experience.