Senior Quality Engineer

Build your career on a landmark Water and Pipeline project in Western Sydney. Join a tier 1 team that values initiative, teamwork and impact Tier 1 project shaping Western Sydney's Future Supportive, hands on project team environment Real impact delivering vital water Infrastructure Join McConnell Dowell, a Tier-1 contractor known for Creative Construction and for building projects that shape communities. We’re recruiting for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer who thrives in fast-paced project environments and wants to be part of something meaningful, delivering major water and pipeline infrastructure across Western Sydney. What you’ll do: Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the project’s Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure full compliance with contractual, regulatory, and ISO requirements. Oversee quality assurance and quality control activities across all work packages, including reviewing ITPs, managing hold / witness points, conducting audits, and ensuring subcontractor compliance. Provide technical quality leadership to engineering, construction, and commissioning teams, offering guidance on specifications, standards, non-conformance management, and corrective / preventive actions. Manage project-wide quality reporting and governance, including NCR registers, quality dashboards, trend analysis, and presenting risk or improvement recommendations to senior leadership. Drive quality planning and readiness for handover, ensuring timely completion of as-built documentation, assurance records, test results, and closeout packages aligned with client and regulatory requirements. You’ll be joining a collaborative, professional, and down-to-earth team that values initiative and integrity. If you’re ready to make your mark on landmark infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you. About Us McConnell Dowell – Creative Construction Our purpose is Providing a Better Life. We do that through delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and through providing career opportunities that challenge, reward and grow our people. From remote major resources and energy projects to city‑shaping transport and water infrastructure, we have constructed thousands of high‑quality, complex projects for our customers and communities over more than 60 years, in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia. Why join us? The work you’ll do will have a tangible positive impact on people’s lives, including yours. The diversity of our projects, roles and locations means greater development opportunities. We invest in our people to set and reach personal and professional goals and we have some of the best mentoring minds in the business to help you do that. Because when you grow, we all grow. McConnell Dowell actively seeks and celebrates diversity, inclusion, and individuality. In a culture low on ego and high on support, we encourage everyone to make an impact. We're big enough to take on community-shaping projects, but agile enough for you to have an influence on how we do things. So, join us, be you, and help us create better together. Apply now Equal Opportunity Employer We are an equal opportunity employer. People of all ages, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities & cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are strongly encouraged to apply. Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre‑employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks and COVID vaccination status. This role is being sourced through McConnell Dowell directly and not accepting applications via external recruitment agencies. #J-18808-Ljbffr