Position: Project Engineer - NPI (Intermediate)
Company: Tier 1 EPCM
Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Employment Type: Contractor
Contract length: Initially 12 Months - Subjected to extensions
Role Responsibilities
As a Project Engineer, you will work closely with project controls, procurement, contracts, and engineering/design teams to support the successful delivery of NPI facilities (site offices, fuel facilities, ablutions, water, power, etc.) for a major iron ore project.
This may include responsibilities but not limited to:
- Manage small multidisciplinary projects or larger single-discipline scopes across all project phases, ensuring safe, efficient, cost-effective, and timely execution.
- Serve as the primary technical liaison with clients, ensuring project alignment with their expectations, approved Basis of Design, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Occasionally travel to project sites for contract management and oversight.
- Lead and promote a strong health and safety culture, providing safety leadership to the project team.
- Participate in constructability, operability, and maintainability workshops.
- Understand procurement, subcontracting, and provide on-site construction support.
- Track and analyze design deliverables, quantities, costs, and schedules, using data to forecast trends and ensure project control.
- Manage project progress through regular reviews and controls, developing action plans to address issues and ensure on-time delivery.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of Project Control Reports, identifying issues and effectively communicating progress, proposals, and reports to staff and management.
- Holds a recognized engineering degree in NPI or related field.
- Experienced in EPCM and EPC projects, with a background in multi-cultural, multi-national environments.
- 6+ years of engineering, project management, and supervisory experience, including workshare and E/EP projects.
- Proven leadership in smaller projects with strong commercial, contractual, and technical expertise.
- Experience in constructing NPI facilities (site offices, fuel facilities, ablutions, water, power, etc.).
- Skilled in making independent decisions, prioritizing tasks, and managing project impacts on cost and schedule.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint) and experienced in Access and Visio for data management.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)
If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to tiffany.kew@airswift.com with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact Tiffany at +61 (08) 6256 0338 for more information.