Senior Architectural Engineer

About the company

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation. We're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.

And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here.

Your tasks

Technical competency

• Supports adherence to generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
• Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
• Supports checking, peer reviews, and incorporation of comments and findings.
• Prepares plans, layouts and designs with supporting calculations for specifications, and supplies drafting and estimating staff with information to assist in the production of detailed drawings, the development of tools, quantities, materials lists and cost estimates as required.
• Checks plans, designs and materials for conformity with specifications.
• Performs studies, design concepts, design criteria, reports, plant layout drawings, detail design and construction drawings.
• Prepares materials and writes construction specifications.
• May conduct surveys, studies, and site investigations.
• Prepares and issues drawing packages.
• Provides technical guidance to drafters and designers working on the same project.
• Ensures compliance of design with applicable codes and regulations.

Project execution

• Knows the discipline scope/cost/time requirements, assists the team to meet expectations, and coordinates with other disciplines to ensure project success.
• Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the project management team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability.
• Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.
• Provides technical support within the discipline team, liaises with the project team, and consults with relevant resources as required.

Major accountabilities of position

• Coordinates review and approval of design and interfaces on client requirements and specifications.
• Ensures all work is checked and approved before issue.
• Responsible for maintaining work progress (budget, schedule) and raising change documentation where necessary.
• Liaises with research and development engineers regarding development work or construction and production engineers regarding manufacture of designed products or planned structures.
• Liaises with suppliers, clients, consultants or commissioning engineers concerning the design, installation or construction and commissioning of assigned work.
• Assists in the preparation of technical detail for sales inquiries, quotations, contract documentation, technical literature or in the analysis of failures following customer complaints.
• Extracts engineering and estimating information from drawings.
• Studies and implements lessons learnt from previous projects.
• Responds to contractor's requests for information (RFIs) and reviews contractor's shop drawings.

Project deliverables

• Gathers data from multiple sources and prepares engineering studies, analyses, calculations, etc.
• Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
• Creates final documentation incorporating all relevant information and pursues customer approval.
• Performs discipline specific engineering services such as:

• Identifies and reports changes to project scope;
• Contributes to appropriate studies, analyses and recommends actions;
• Assists with the preparation of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations and reports;
• Provides assistance during procurement, construction and commissioning activities.

General accountabilities

• Complies and keeps up-to-date with the behaviour and business practices outlined in Worley processes, and with all applicable laws, regulations and standards.
• Delivers quality services and demonstrates a commitment to understand and meet customer needs.
• Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to achieving the Worley vision and its associated requirements.
• Arrives punctually for work and meetings.
• Demonstrates commitment to the organisation.
• Complies with legal obligations and safety requirements of the role.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise work to achieve them.

Requirements

Education – qualifications, accreditation, training

• Full-time bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from an accredited university.
• MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) 'Grade A' professional registration is a mandatory requirement.
• Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period.
• Chartered professional engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage.

Job specific knowledge

• Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to HSE management and its associated requirements in a project environment.
• Has an intermediate understanding of regulations, codes and industry standard practices.
• Knowledge of local and international codes and standards that are applicable to architectural design.
• Experience with all major building types - commercial, residential, civic and industrial type buildings.
• Experience with substations design and industrial type buildings in addition to experience in commercial buildings.
• Demonstrates project architect responsibility level in medium-size commercial and/or industrial buildings from inception to completion.

Relating and networking

• Relates well to people at all levels;
• Establishes good relationships within and outside team;
• Uses a range of interpersonal skills to effectively engage with people across the organisation.
• Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization.

Applying expertise & technology

• Uses technology to achieve work objectives;
• Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development;
• Demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions;
• Implements innovative solutions, technology advances, and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence.

Planning and organising

• Manages own time and own processes effectively and sets own work priorities.
• Prioritises what needs to be done and has a sense of urgency about achieving outcomes.
• Works with minimum supervision and is able to work to schedule, usually completes work on time;
• Can organise information from many sources and retain as per the prescribed format and policies.

Delivering results and meeting customer expectations

• Takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and solving customer problems/issues.
• Understands the types and the nature of the work we have across projects and the capabilities required for different types of projects.
• Excellent customer focus and able to consistently meet Worley and its clients needs.
• Able to identify issues, problems and opportunities; make timely decisions; develop appropriate and innovative solutions; and ask for assistance if required.
• Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals.

Following instructions and procedures

• Appropriately follows instructions from supervisor without unnecessarily challenging authority;
• Follows procedures and policies;
• Keeps to schedules;
• Competent user of workflow procedure for delivering discipline specific deliverables.
• Demonstrates knowledge of definition and application of engineering codes & standard practices.

Coping with pressures and setbacks

• Maintains a positive outlook at work;
• Works productively in a pressurised environment;
• Keeps emotions under control during difficult situations;
• Handles criticism well and learns from it.

HSE capability

• Maintains HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements.
• Demonstrates behaviour and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety and environmental performance.
• Demonstrates a visible and active commitment to:

• Personal well-being;
• Healthy and safe workplaces and activities; and continuously improves Worley health, safety and environmental performance.
• Identifies and reports work hazards and incidents.

IT skills

• Revit 3D
• AutoCAD 2D
• Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat
• Experience in 3D Studio MAX, Lumion and/or RHINO would be an advantage.
• Experience in Adobe Photoshop would be an advantage.

What we offer

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