Senior Project Engineer

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What’s on offer?

Project Overview: Cocos & Keeling Islands (CKI) Airfield Upgrade Project

Situated on the CKI Islands, rich in history and culture, the project will see the upgrading of the airfield runway and taxiways. The CKI Islands were incorporated into Australia in 1984 and are situated in the Indian Ocean, approximately 900km from Christmas Island. Known internationally for their unique wildlife habitat and remote tropical beauty.

This project is crucial for local infrastructure and offers a chance to make a meaningful impact, and work on a once in a career project.

Location: Ideally based in Perth, however consideration will be taken for any other major capital city in Australia as well as permanent relocation support to Perth. This position will require committing to a 3:1 roster to CKI with a highly competitive uplift on offer.

About the role

Fulton Hogan is seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer to join our team on the Cocos Keeling Islands project, delivering a complex airfield upgrade including earthworks, pavements, drainage, lighting and associated infrastructure.

Reporting to the Construction Manager, this is a key site leadership role with responsibility for managing major work packages, supporting project delivery teams, and helping drive safe, efficient and high-quality outcomes across the project.

This opportunity will suit a proven civil construction professional who is confident working in remote environments, can lead from the front, and brings strong capability across programme delivery, cost control, subcontractor management, technical coordination and stakeholder engagement.

As Senior Project Engineer, you will take ownership of significant work packages and provide day-to-day leadership across critical project activities. The role includes direct project management responsibilities, increased financial accountability, strong client interface and leading and mentoring junior engineers within the team.

You will play a central role in planning and delivering construction works for the airfield upgrade, ensuring all activities are carried out in accordance with the programme, methodology, specifications and safety requirements. The role also requires strong judgement, the ability to make timely decisions in a dynamic operating environment.

What you’ll do?

• Manage complex work packages and contracts within approved scope and value
• Lead construction delivery for airfield upgrades (earthworks, pavements, drainage, lighting and infrastructure).
• Prepare and maintain detailed construction programmes and staging plans with field operations.
• Manage labour, plant, equipment, materials and subcontractors to achieve programme and budget outcomes.
• Monitor progress, identify risks/delays and implement mitigation; control costs, forecasting, variations and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality and environmental systems (audits, reporting and close-outs).
• Provide technical leadership across civil/pavement/asphalt/concrete works and support stakeholder relationships plus after-hours decision-making.

How you’ll connect to the role?

• A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, with CEng preferred but not essential, or NER.
• Intermediate industry experience in civil construction.
• Strong experience delivering construction packages across civil infrastructure, airfield, pavement, asphalt, drainage or remote area projects.
• Demonstrated capability in cost control, subcontractor management, contract administration, programme delivery and technical coordination.
• The ability to work effectively in a remote environment and adapt to the demands of a fast-paced project.
• Strong leadership skills, sound judgement and the ability to communicate clearly with both internal and external stakeholders.
• A strong commitment to safety, quality, environmental compliance and doing the job right the first time.

Our people share the same set of values that keep us REAL. Respect, Energy and Effort, Attitude and Leadership encapsulate what we stand for at Fulton Hogan and encourage us to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where we listen to, care for, celebrate, and respect everyone.

We are committed to reconciliation and building and nurturing respectful relationships with First Nations peoples. Through our First Nations Engagement Strategy and Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), we aim to promote opportunities, cultural understanding and partnerships that celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of Indigenous communities.

If our values resonate with you, please submit an application for the position. If you’re not sure that you meet 100% of the selection criteria, that’s okay, we would still like to hear from you and potentially discuss how your skills could be utilised at Fulton Hogan.

For over 90 years, Fulton Hogan has been delivering high-quality infrastructure to improve the lives of people every day. Our 10,000+ team works in every kind of weather and environment, creating, connecting, and caring for communities across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.