This is a hands-on design management / technical project management opportunity for someone who can push schedules, hold engineering service providers (ESPs) to account, and confidently review/sign off designs within a structured engineering governance framework.
The Opportunity
- Title: Mechanical Project Engineer (Mechanical Design / Design Manager)
- Location: Perth CBD (Hybrid) — occasional site trips to support projects / attend FATs
- Roster: Monday–Friday (5/2), standard office hours with ad hoc travel
- Contract: 6-month contract(increase in work)
- Start: ASAP
- Pay: $105/hr + super (PAYG)
You’ll be responsible for managing the engineering design development end-to-end, ensuring designs are fit-for-purpose and delivered in line with engineering governance requirements.
Key accountabilities include:
- Driving design delivery and maintaining momentum across multiple work fronts
- Managing ESPs and ensuring outputs meet scope, schedule, and quality expectations
- Reviewing and critically analysing design deliverables (drawings, documentation, design decisions)
- Providing disciplined schedule focus and progressing designs through approvals
- Making sound engineering/design decisions and signing off designs for construction readiness
- Proactive stakeholder engagement and clear communication across project teams
- Degree-qualified Mechanical Engineer(design engineering background)
- Senior-level experience (approx. 12–15 years) in mechanical engineering / design delivery environments
- Proven ability to drive projects, remain disciplined, and deliver to schedule
- Strong capability reviewing engineering deliverables and approving design submissions
- Confident decision-maker with a solutions-focused mindset
- Strong organisation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong general capability working within large asset-owner engineering frameworks
- Excel
- SPO, MicroStation, P6, SAP
- Join a high-performing engineering function supporting critical project outcomes
- High-autonomy role suited to a motivated “driver” (not purely advisory)
- Perth-based, professional environment with varied project exposure
Chandler Macleod is committed to building inclusive and diverse workplaces. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
