SA Water provide reliable and trusted water services to over 1.8 million South Australians every day. Our mission is to ensure that South Australia remains a sustainable and healthy place to live and work. With a rich history spanning more than 165 years, we are dedicated to fostering innovation and sustainability to serve today's community and future generations.
SA Water’s work significantly impacts the state's prosperity, and we are committed to climate-readiness. Guided by our sustainability goals, they deliver continuous and effective services. They encourage their people to share innovative solutions and fresh ideas, contributing to the positive impact they make on the lives of South Australians and the communities they live in.
About the Job
Are you ready to lead and inspire a dynamic team of engineering professionals?
Randstad is partnering with SA Water who is seeking a passionate and experienced Lead Engineer Delivery to drive excellence and play a key role in achieving their strategic goals. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team dedicated to the successful delivery of the capital works program to benefit current and future generations in South Australia.
If you are passionate about making a meaningful impact to the community and driving engineering excellence, we invite you to apply for this rewarding leadership opportunity at SA Water.
Your new role:
- Lead, build and empower a high performing team, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture that encourages open communication and knowledge sharing.
- Promote a culture of safety and sustainability. Ensuring compliance with safety and engineering standards.
- Drive an awareness of sustainable design practices within the team, ensuring standards and guidelines represent value for money, fit for purpose, industry acceptable solutions.
- Oversee the creation and integration of an engineering program of work to maximise the capital framework, by identifying the challenge and implement opportunities to improve program strategy and engineering delivery.
- Lead the monitoring of key performance indicators related to project quality by leading the coordination with the Capital Delivery Team and Engineering Team.
- Work closely with business partners including Lead Design Managers and other engineering leads to meet customer needs and maintain and build strong relationships across the organisation.
- Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement in engineering delivery processes. Champion a culture of service excellence within the team.
- Work closely with the business stakeholders including Asset sponsors, Capital Delivery Portfolio Managers, Lead Design Managers and other engineering leads to meet the program/project needs.
As the single point of contact for engineering from different stakeholders, this will be an integral leading role within the engineering team ensuring the projects are delivered to compliance and safety in design standards, you will need the following to be successful:
- Tertiary qualifications in Civil, or Mechanical Engineering.
- Postgraduate qualifications in Project Management, Business Management or a related area would be desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in large Program/Project Management, Design Management and Technical writing.
- Extensive experience in leadership with a proven ability to build and lead high performing teams.
- Experience in sustainable engineering practices and familiarity with industry standards and guidelines.
- Recognition of discipline expertise by Engineers Australia is essential.
Benefits you will get in return:
- Flexibility to work from home.
- Work with cutting edge technology on a variety of assets and diverse projects.
- Mentorship and opportunities to build up the technical knowledge in engineering to shape the future of the organisation.
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Wellbeing days, Cultural Leave, Volunteering Day
- Super SA benefits
- Option to extend your holidays by Purchasing Leave
You will be an integral part of the organisation and community, mentoring and leading within the team to achieve company strategies. This Lead role will have an impact on the future of SA Water Engineering. SA Water offers flexibility within the position whereby you can work in a hybrid capacity, from both home and the office.
Randstad is exclusively managing candidate applications for this position, for more information or to obtain a copy of the position description please enquire to Jane Barns at jane.barns@randstad.com.au. To apply please submit a copy of your CV and cover letter outlining your experience relevant to this position via “apply now.”
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Randstad is partnering with SA Water who is seeking a passionate and experienced Lead Engineer Delivery to play a key role in achieving their strategic goals. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team dedicated to benefiting current and future generations.
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