Design Engineer Project Officer

Why work with us?

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region - Healthy, Smart, and Creative, council is at the forefront of delivering a number of region-shaping projects that will see the region become a hub for innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity, along with opportunities and a lifestyle for all to enjoy.

About the Role

The Design & Placemaking Services Branch plays a key role in providing coordinated expert solutions and designs to facilitate the ongoing management of our civil assets and associated services. The Branch focuses on service outcomes when deriving solutions to be delivered through assets, operations, or a combination, to satisfy the specific need or council policy / direction.

Contributing to the success of this Branch, the Design Engineer Project Officer is responsible for managing outsourced designs and external advice to identify and resolve technical issues that will affect delivery of the designs.

Primarily, you will:

• Manage the design of infrastructure projects and priority projects for the region.
• Identify project anomalies, project risks by applying a due diligence approach, variations and resolve or implement effective risk mitigation strategies to the design.
• Provide proactive technical design advice (under RPEQ Supervision) to council officers,
• Working towards become an RPEQ, you will be required to support responsible for the direct supervision of the allocated Civil Designers resources to deliver the designs required in for the capital works program.

About you

As a professional in this field you will be well versed with strong project management experience in a project development, economic analysis and financial management focus. You will have demonstrated leaderships skills to lead and coach other staff in the team. To be successful in this role, you will have strong time management and communication skills as well as substantial knowledge working with the relevant legislation.

As a requirement of this role, you will posses a Tertiary qualification in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Project Management, Planning or other similar qualifications relevant to the field and substantial relevant experience.

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

• Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities. 
• Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working including a 9-day fortnight and a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.
• Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices. We also pay you 17.5% leave loading and generous Superannuation where council will contribute 12% Superannuation in addition to your 6% superannuation contribution.

How to apply

Your written application should include:

• A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and
• A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

Further Information

Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2023-2027.

For specific enquiries contact Sudershan Kanthakadi during business hours on (07) 5413 3149.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.