Negri Contractors | July 2023 to Current
Project Engineer / Senior Project Engineer
Project(s): Burwood Highway & McMahons Road Intersection Upgrade
Key Duties:
- Leadership role with three direct reports at Project Engineer level and several Site Engineers below
- Managing self-performed earthworks, pavement construction, drainage, asphalt, as well as the coordination of multiple traffic switches
- Responsible for preparing, updating and reporting a 4-week lookahead program directly to the client (MRPV), as well as feeding program updates into the Primavera P6 contract program
- Responsible for preparing cost to complete forecasts, as well as reviewing and reporting on the Project Engineer’s forecasts
- Inherited role as Quality Manager – corrected past performance and instilled confidence in the client
- Responsible for overseeing all QA matters, setting targets and priorities for all engineers, resolving NCRs and defects and accurately reporting to the client
- Responsible for administering contracts, including progress claim and variation assessment
- Ensuring compliance with workplace safety and environmental objectives by planning, overseeing site works, and conducting regular audits
Laing O’Rourke | March 2023 to June 2023
Project Engineer
Project(s): South-Eastern Program Alliance (SEPA)
Key Duties:
- Worked within the Structures team during a rail occupation, working specifically on shotcreting trench
retaining walls - Responsible for managing a $12M Subcontractor package, including day-to-day and long-term planning
- Responsible for administrating the Subcontract, including assessing Progress Claims and Variations
- Ensured compliance with workplace safety and environmental objectives by planning, overseeing site works and conducting regular audits
- Ensured compliance with quality objectives by conducting comprehensive reviews of structural drawings and regular inspections, to ensure as-constructed works align with design intent
- Raised and closed RFIs and NCRs as required, to ensure any deviations from design are considered and achieve best-for-project outcomes
- Demonstrated leadership skills by managing a large team of Subcontractors, supervisors and labourers in addition to site and graduate engineers
Seymour Whyte | March 2022 to March 2023
Project Engineer
Project(s): Port Rail Transformation Project (PRTP)
Key Duties:
- Scope of works includes management of self-performed earthworks for track earthworks formation
- Management of track, signalling and combined services route (CSR) subcontractors, including implementing safe-working arrangements for access into rail corridor
- Develop and implement staging plans work methodologies and manage interfaces with rail authorities, tenants and adjacent projects (WGTP)
- Compile and document all day works records and prepare variation claims for submission to client
- Prepare vendor assessments and manage procurement process for assigned scope
- Cost and productivity tracking and month end forecasting for numerous cost codes
- Develop and maintain long term (8 week plus) construction program, as well as highly detailed rail occupation programs. Status and update program for client and senior leadership reporting purposes
- Responsible for the successful delivery of a full suite of self-performed and subcontracted civil scopes, including bulk earthworks, drainage, pavements, lighting/ITS, asphalt, signage and road furniture, amongst others
- Demonstrated ability to lead small teams of site and graduate engineers and provide ongoing training and mentorship
- Responsible for quality assurance and lot closure. Ensured that all RFIs and NCRs are managed and closed expeditiously with consultation with designers, clients and stakeholders as required
- Drove a strong HSEQ culture within the team and amongst site supervisory staff including meeting project specific KPIs
McConnell Dowell | April 2020 to March 2022
Project Engineer
Project(s): Healesville-Koo Wee Rup (North) Upgrade & Mordialloc Freeway Project
Key Duties:
- Responsible for the successful delivery of a full suite of self-performed and subcontracted civil scopes, including bulk earthworks, drainage, pavements, lighting/ITS, asphalt, signage and road furniture, amongst others
- Responsible for procurement of subcontractors and suppliers for various subcontract packages and driving negotiations and evaluations to obtain best value for money outcomes for the organization
- Demonstrated capability in tender evaluations, estimates, cost tracking and cost forecasting for numerous scopes of works
- Prepared and maintained short- and long-term lookahead programs to manage timeliness of delivery activities and explore options to accelerate programs and identify risks
- Demonstrated ability to lead small teams of site and graduate engineers and provide ongoing training and mentorship
- Responsible for quality assurance and lot closure. Ensured that all RFIs and NCRs are managed and closed expeditiously with consultation with designers, clients and stakeholders as required
- Drove a strong HSEQ culture within the team and amongst site supervisory staff
- Prepared numerous high quality construction execution procedures and risk assessments
WBHO Infrastructure | May 2018 to March 2020
Quality Lead / Nominated Authority
Project(s): Western Roads Upgrade (WRU)
Key Duties:
- Responsible for completion and handover for Forsyth Rd Interchange in Hoppers Crossing
- Established the quality and defect management systems and provided ongoing training for project teams
- Negotiations with clients and key stakeholders for closure of NCRs, RFIs, design exceptions to achieve best for project outcomes
- Responsible for establishing and managing completion program
- Highly field based and technical role in ensuring bulk earthworks, pavements, drainage and structures were being constructed in accordance with VicRoads specifications, drawings and the project scope and delivery requirements
- Responsible for design review, review of management plans and other critical construction documents
- Built and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders such as independent reviewers, clients, returned asset owners and subcontractors
- Comprehensive and regular reporting to monitor performance and for early identification and resolution of project risks
- Drove a best practice quality culture through education and training of applicable specifications and management plans
- Managed the expeditious closure of RFIs and NCRs to ensure best quality outcomes are achieved for the project
VicRoads | February 2017 to April 2018
Project Engineer
Project(s): Warrandyte Bridge Upgrade
Key Duties:
- Reviewed design packages to resolve project scope, delivery and constructibility issues and communicated outcomes with key stakeholders to achieve best for project outcomes
- Financial management including forecasting, progress claim assessment, variation and claim assessment to ensure that VicRoads achieved best value-for-money outcomes
- Reviewed contract documents such as environmental, safety and quality management plans and conducted regular surveillance to ensure contractor adheres to the plans
- Conducted weekly OHS, environmental and quality audits by assessing the site against the contract plans, drawings and specifications to ensure VicRoads and the contractor maintains best construction practices
