Principal Instrumentation Engineer
- Join our fun and inclusive team of professionals
- Learn from a world-leading engineering and project delivery company
- Enjoy a site-based role to obtain valuable real world experience and progress your career
- Eligible employees may access valuable Remote Area salary packaging benefits, helping you make more of your income
About The Job
Build a rewarding career while enjoying the benefits of regional living. Join our growing Portland team and support our customer, Alcoa, delivering engineering solutions across a complex and dynamic industrial environment. You'll have the opportunity to develop your expertise, work alongside experienced professionals, and contribute to meaningful outcomes, all while enjoying the lifestyle advantages of Victoria's stunning southwest coast. With potential regional tax incentives and salary packaging benefits available for eligible permanent employees, there's never been a better time to take your career further in Portland.
Who We Are
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. Right now, we're bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.
We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their asset portfolios. We solve complex problems by finding integrated, data-centric solutions from the first stages of engineering and consulting through to installation and commissioning.
Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.
What You'll Do
As part of our Portland team, you'll work closely with Alcoa to deliver practical engineering solutions across a complex industrial environment, helping to improve plant performance, reliability and asset integrity.
The role
• Define project scopes and manage scope changes in line with project change management processes.
• Prepare and review engineering documentation, including datasheets, scopes of work, work instructions, design inputs, drawings, specifications, calculations and reports.
• Participate in meetings, prepare progress reports and follow quality procedures, including technical deliverable checks.
• Provide engineering support through procurement, construction and commissioning, including requisitions and technical bid evaluations.
• Estimate, monitor and control engineering hours against approved budgets.
• Apply appropriate risk and HSE considerations across all design activities.
• Provide technical guidance, supervision and peer review support to discipline and project teams.
• Build strong working relationships with Worley, clients and stakeholders, resolving requirement discrepancies proactively.
• Identify issues, develop practical solutions and seek support when required.
• Maintain current knowledge of discipline developments and technical innovations.
About you
• A recognised engineering degree in the relevant discipline or equivalent with eligibility for membership with Engineers Australia.
• Substantial technical and practical Brownfields experience in the relevant discipline in the same or similar industry, including experience in multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
• Mining/Minerals industry experience.
• Extensive experience in managing diverse teams across multiple locations to deliver project outcomes, including a keen interest in managing and coaching individuals to develop a high performing team.
• Strong experience in client, inter-discipline and construction interface management.
• Field experience, especially with Brownfield installations, highly desirable.
Why You Should Apply
Work locally on nationally significant industrial assets and projects.
Join a supportive multidisciplinary team with access to broader global expertise.
Develop your career through varied work, mentoring and direct exposure to clients and operating facilities.
Enjoy a regional lifestyle without stepping away from complex engineering challenges.
Build trusted relationships and see your engineering solutions progress into construction and operation.
Access potential regional tax incentives and salary packaging benefits available to eligible permanent employees.
Moving forward together
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. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.