About North East Link

The Spark Consortium has been selected to deliver the Central Package of the North East Link Project - Victoria's biggest road project.

The Spark Consortium’s Design and Construction Contractor - which comprises Webuild, CPB Contractors, GS Engineering and Construction and China Construction Oceania - will deliver the twin three-lane tunnels and key interchanges for the project.

The Central Package will be delivered as a Public Private Partnership and provides three-lane twin tunnels that will close the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network from the M80 Ring Road to an upgraded Eastern Freeway, reducing journey times and diverting heavy vehicles away from local roads. Up to 135,000 vehicles will use North East Link every day, reducing congestion in the north-east while maintaining local roads.

About the Opportunity

The Senior ME&I Engineer plays an integral part in successful delivery of North East Link’s Mechanical, Electrical and Instrumentation (MEI) scope. This position requires exceptional leadership skills and engineering knowledge in tunnel MEI systems.

The purpose of the role is to ensure the seamless coordination of various teams and stakeholders, effectively managing and supervising technical aspects, maintaining strict compliance with standards, engineering designs and team performance KRAs. The SPE plays a key role managing subcontract packages and fostering Digital Delivery ways of working. By leveraging their engineering acumen and practical experience, they contribute significantly to optimization of project performance and the achievement of objectives.

Position Specific Responsibilities:

• Project Planning: Define project scopes, objectives, and deliverables, considering the project's strategic alignment and resources available. Plan and prepare project schedules, defining milestones and identifying potential risks and mitigation strategies.
• Project Execution: Oversee execution of allocated mechanical and electrical activities where assigned, ensuring all activities align with project plans, standards, regulations, and safety protocols. Direct project execution by coordinating resources, suppliers, and subcontractors effectively.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor junior engineers and team members, promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation. Facilitate clear communication within the team, managing tasks, and ensuring roles and responsibilities are understood and delivered.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for all relevant project stakeholders, including site based teams, consultants, contractors, and regulatory bodies. Coordinate meetings, present progress reports, manage expectations, and build robust relationships.
• Digital Delivery: Ensure effective implementation of Digital Delivery plan(s) to ensure robustness of MEI delivery performance. The SPE is expected to champion this way of working and ensure consistency across all MEI teams and relevant third parties.
• Quality and Compliance Management: Implement quality control processes, ensuring the work meets the necessary industry standards, contractual requirements, and client expectations. Regularly conduct site inspections to verify compliance and promote a culture of quality and safety.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks. Develop and implement risk management plans, ensuring prompt response to changes or issues affecting project performance including routine assessment of risk control effectiveness.
• Budget and Schedule Control: Manage assigned project budgets and schedules, monitoring the progress of work against plans, identifying deviations, and taking corrective actions when necessary. Responsible for cost estimating, budgeting, financial planning, and cost control.
• Documentation and Reporting: Ensure thorough documentation of all project activities, decisions, changes, and lessons learned. Produce accurate and timely project reports, detailing project status, issues, risks, and performance metrics.
• Handover and Closure: Supervise assigned project close-out processes, including testing and commissioning of installed systems, preparation of handover documents, and transition to operations and maintenance teams. Ensure that project deliverables meet the operational requirements and client satisfaction.

Minimum requirements for this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• Extensive experience in relevant field.
• Minimum 10 years experience
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Effectively manage tasks, deadlines and individuals.
• Ability to interact with colleagues in a self-managed team structure.
• Must be able to multitask, problem solve, and implement innovative processes within a fast-paced environment.
• Display attention to detail.
• Experienced in training, supporting and motivating operational staff

If this opportunity is of interest to you, please click on the ‘Apply now’ button to register your interest and please also subscribe to ‘Job Alerts’ to be notified of upcoming opportunities with SPARK.

Whilst we are keen to hear from candidates with proven infrastructure project experience or experience working for a Tier 1 or Tier 2 Contractor to be a part of an iconic construction project in Melbourne, Victoria, we also will consider applicants that are seeking to enter or re-enter the industry.

SPARK is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) and actively seeks to remove barriers people may face in gaining a successful position on the North East Link Central Package. We value diversity, inclusion and equity through providing a working environment where all employees feel included, valued, and free to bring their different skills, experiences and perspectives.