Senior Development Engineer

$105K – $113K Total Remuneration Package (pro-rata)

$94K – $100K Base Salary (pro-rata)

Location: Maroochydore

Vacancy No: 4885

Temporary - Full-time (until June 2025)

Applications close: Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:59pm AEST

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

Development Services branch enable sustainable development for the community on the Sunshine Coast by working with industry stakeholders to achieve timely, customer focused development assessment services, advice and advocacy in the areas of planning, engineering, environment, landscape, building, plumbing and legislative compliance.

The Senior Development Engineer provides engineering advice, assessment and expertise leadership in relation to development applications and investigations, politically sensitive requests, corporate activities and other matters.

• Coordinate the efficient assessment of development applications to all internal and external customers to deliver on Council’s commitment for efficient and effective development services.
• Project manage, process, assess and negotiate on a range of complex development applications, in a timely manner, while maintaining a strong customer service focus. 
• Manage and negotiate the assessment and delivery of complex and potentially sensitive development projects and outcomes in accordance with statutory requirements.
• Provide leadership to team members through mentoring, coaching, training, advising, guiding, empowering and support.

This position is based at the Sunshine Coast City Hall, in the heart of Maroochydore CBD. This state of the art and sustainable building is designed to achieve an innovative and collaborative workspace.

About you

As a highly skilled and experienced engineer, you will be confident providing expert advice and solutions to challenging development projects. You will have demonstrated leadership skills to act as a senior member of the team, strong interpersonal and communication skills along with a high level of civil engineering experience. 

Possess a proven track record of initiative and autonomy decision making and ability to operate effectively within a political environment such as a large local government is essential.

You will have demonstrated experience and knowledge of a broad range of contemporary civil engineering design and construction practices in relation to complex and major development areas.

As a requirement of this role, you will possess recognised formal qualification/accreditation in civil engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent substantial experience in the engineering profession or construction industry.

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 Karl Vonhoff during business hours on 0467 561 ***.

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 *********@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. 

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.