Title:  Senior Project Engineer

Requisition ID:  8398
Work Type:  Fixed Term Full Time
Fixed Term Period:  Up to 7 months (April 2026)
Location:  Western Victoria
Date Posted:  1 Oct 2025

VIDA Roads
VPS5 Senior Project Engineer 

 

  • VPS5 $113,022 - $136,747 + super & benefits 

  • Various locations, with a requirement for onsite work when the project progresses to the construction phase 

 

About VIDA Roads
VIDA Roads are delivering a massive investment in the state’s roads. We’re delivering major new road projects across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria while improving the roads people rely on every day.  
 
Big Build Roads are also delivering dozens of new roads, bridges, road widening projects and major freeway upgrades.  
 
Join us in building better connections for Victoria by: 

  • Providing professional expertise to ensure the development and delivery of complex or difficult major transport/road infrastructure projects to time, scope, cost and quality requirements.  

  • Providing active professional direction to supervise management of works contracts, monitor contractor progress and effectively negotiate variations, claims and other issues.  

  • Ensuring that the management of safety is paramount and implement sector best practice and procedures.  

  • Working in partnership with multiple stakeholders, including project team members, Traffic Management, Services, Surveillance, contractors and consultants to ensure work is prioritised, delivered on time and to appropriate costs, quality standards, government and community requirements.  

  • Managing day to day project requirements, work organisation, the allocation of resources within and the outputs required of the project team through Preconstruction, Delivery and Handover phases.  

  • Carry out Functional Completion and Practical Completion processes including systems assurance, operational readiness, commissioning activities and post-completion as-built documentation and close out reporting.  

 

The Senior Project Engineer supports the planning and delivery of the Western Freeway realignment at Pykes Creek (Ballarat bound) through developing and delivering project activities, supporting the strategic direction and building effective and collaborative stakeholder relationships.  

The works will include earthworks, pavement and drainage upgrades, signage and line marking, and safety barrier installation. 

It will be a requirement to travel and spend time at one or all our site offices.  
 
For more details about this opportunity, please take a look at the Position Description here. 

 

How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now via the ‘Apply’ button and follow the prompts. Applications to include a CV and preferably Cover Letter and will not be accepted via email. There is no need to provide any type of response to Key Selection Criteria separately, but we do encourage you to outline relevant experience and motivation for applying in your cover letter.  

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which will include a Reference Check and Probity/Declaration of Conflict clearance.  

 

To be part of something meaningful and leave a positive legacy connecting Victorian communities, apply for this opportunity with us today.