Senior Project Engineer - ECI

Location: Perth, WA
Rate: Competitive (dependent on experience)
Type: Contract
Duration: Ongoing
Hours: Monday to Friday

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer to manage mission-critical and Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) workstreams. This role will be responsible for driving project development activities, contractor engagement, design coordination, constructability planning, and transition into detailed engineering and delivery phases.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full ECI workstream from scope development through to close-out
• Develop and manage project deliverables, schedules, governance, and reporting requirements
• Lead contractor mobilisation, meetings, action tracking, and deliverable reviews
• Coordinate constructability reviews, modularisation strategies, execution planning, and project schedules
• Manage pricing inputs and support commercial project outcomes
• Ensure ECI outputs are incorporated into FEED designs, procurement packages, and delivery scopes
• Support readiness activities for transition into detailed engineering and construction phases
• Liaise with engineering, construction, procurement, commercial, and delivery teams
• Drive stakeholder engagement and project alignment across multiple workstreams

Mandatory Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as a Senior Project Engineer or similar role
• Strong experience managing complex infrastructure, engineering, or mission-critical projects
• Experience managing ECI, FEED, or early-stage project development activities
• Strong contractor, stakeholder, and project management capabilities
• Experience managing project schedules, deliverables, and commercial outcomes
• Excellent communication, leadership, and coordination skills
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities

Preferred

• Experience delivering major infrastructure, mining, energy, technology, or industrial projects
• Strong knowledge of constructability, modularisation, and execution planning processes
• Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams
• Exposure to procurement, contract management, and project transition activities

RESPECTFULLY AUSTRALIAN WORKING RIGHTS ONLY

For more information about this opportunity, please click APPLY or contact Alvin on 08 94374400 or via email on alvin.candra@drdgroup.com.au

DRD Group is a specialist recruitment provider renowned for recruiting quality project teams on major projects within the Energy, Resources, Defense, Renewables and Infrastructure sectors.

DRD Group embraces a diverse workforce culture and encourages female and Indigenous applicants to apply. All work assignments are subject to successful completion of a medical, drug and alcohol screen plus verification of all original certifications and qualifications.