CPB Contractors is Australia’s leading contractor and the largest infrastructure construction company in our region. Part of the CIMIC Group, we are proud to be constructing Australia’s future and do so collaboratively with our partners and clients.

We hire for careers, not project life. CPB Contractors has more than 50 major infrastructure projects in delivery, across all key sectors of the construction industry, including roads and bridges, rail, tunnelling, defence, airports, buildings and resources, providing you with career opportunities for years to come.

The Project

With an exciting pipeline of projects on the horizon, CPB Contractors is recruiting an experienced Project Engineer for our defence project located in Townsville, QLD.

Army Aviation Program of Works | Defence

Your opportunity

The Project Engineer is accountable for effectively coordinating the design, procurement and construction elements for a designated area on the project to ensure safety, time, cost and environmental objectives are achieved.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Coordinate procurement and construction elements for the designated work area
• Manage the short- and long-term construction planning for works under control including submittals, start-up planning and programming
• Assist the Senior Project Engineer in preparing accurate monthly reports
• Develop and monitor KPI and productivity analysis against program and budget
• Working with site personnel
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to the SHE Cultural Framework, policies, Safety Essentials and Management System requirements and expectations
• Undertake corrective actions arising from H&S processes, including implementing incident investigations within agreed timeframes
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirement and all relevant Company and Group policies and processes

Our minimum requirements for this role are:

• Either a recognised degree in engineering discipline or other relevant tertiary qualification (TAFE or similar)
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience
• Manage self and other to deliver work to between $1M and $10M
• Demonstrated experience in delivery of building construction projects
• Apply engineering principles to comply with scope of works and technical criteria (SWTC)
• Demonstrated commercial experience to include planning up to 4 weeks ahead and weekly reporting against cost and time
• Development of SHEQ process and procedures and management of other in conducting SHEQ process and procedures

This role is locally based and for those outside of Townsville, relocation is required.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, Veterans and Active Defence Reserve members, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds. CPB Contractors is proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Citation - Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.

We’re always looking for ways to make CPB Contractors a more rewarding place to work and offer a unique set of benefits, including:

• A rewarding career where we support your development, training and promote from within.
• Opportunities across all construction sectors so that there is always an opportunity suitable for the next stage in your career.
• Competitive remuneration and excellent benefits including a health and wellbeing program, discount portal and company-funded salary continuance insurance.
• Flexible work arrangements and a culture that values diversity and innovation.

Please note: This role is being sourced through CPB Contractors directly and we will not accept applications via external recruitment agencies.