We are seeking a talented Senior Engineer, Civil to join our dynamic and growing team at our Rhodes or Leppington office. In this role, you will report directly to the Principal and lead a project delivery team, driving the successful execution of projects to meet client expectations.

Specifically:

• Manage and deliver projects from due diligence through to development application, co-ordination of designs and contract administration
• Develop relationships with clients and improve/maintain existing client relationships
• Assist Principal Engineers with forecasted workloads to meet project deliverables
• Contribute to sustainable profit generation and growth
• Manage commercial risk and demonstrate responsible judgement

What This Role Offers.

• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
• The opportunity to work on high-profile projects with tier 1 developers.
• Attractive salary package and benefits.
• Personal and professional development.

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Domain!

What is this role about?

In this newly created, critical role, you will be responsible for the design, development and support of the Data Products Cuscal creates for both internal and client facing use cases. The role accomplishes this by:

• Sourcing, transforming, securing and monitoring data for the creation of products using Cuscal’s data lake and analytics systems.
• Engaging in discovery activities with the Data Product Owner and product, engineering and analytics personnel from both internal and client teams.
• Working in partnership with our Data Practice to deliver solutions that meet our organisational standards and best practices.

Here's more of what you’ll work on:

• Design Solutions: Develop and maintain scalable pipelines. Ensure systems are designed for extensibility, are robust, and can handle large volumes of data efficiently.
• Data Integration: Lead efforts in integrating data from various sources, ensuring data quality and consistency. Work on data transformation, processing, and loading to support analytics and business intelligence needs.
• Performance Optimisation: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks within the Databricks environment, including optimizing the data ingestion processes and ensuring efficient data querying.
• Collaboration: Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet those needs. Provide guidance and mentorship to junior data engineers.
• Innovation and Improvement: Continuously explore new data technologies and methodologies. Implement best practices for data engineering in partnership with our Data practice.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of data workflows, architectures, and best practices. Ensure that all data processes are well-documented and reproducible.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure data security and compliance with industry standards and regulations. Implement data governance practices and monitor adherence to policies.

• Permanent, Full time
• $123,766.93 per annum plus Superannuation
• Join the Waste and Sustainability team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

The Waste and Sustainability department, the Resource Recovery Centres and Closed Landfills unit manages the environmental compliance, remediation and rehabilitation of Council's closed landfills, in addition to managing the operations of Council's two Resource Recovery Centres.

As the Senior Landfill Remediation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of these services to the Hume community.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure Council’s Closed Landfills are monitored and managed in alignment with all relevant policy, legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Supervise, audit, monitor and review the supervised activities (including external parties), ensuring services are delivered on-time, to a high standard, adhere to agreements, safety and industry standards, and are undertaken in alignment with all relevant policy, legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Develop, oversee, and deliver projects at Council’s closed landfills to meet environmental management requirements. 
• Develop and deliver Council’s Landfill monitoring program to ensure compliance with relevant EPA regulations and auditor recommendations.
• Manage and facilitate the delivery of Council projects through the implementation of recognised project management methodologies and in accordance with Council’s Project Management Framework.
• Provide day-to-day leadership of the Closed Landfills Field Officer, engaging them to demonstrate organisational values aligned behaviour, and to optimally achieve service standards.
• Participate in the recruitment, induction, training (internal and external), and performance management of the Resource Recovery Centres and Closed Landfills employees.
• Develop budgets and long-term financial plans for each of Council’s Closed Landfill sites, including for capital works projects.
• Monitor the financial performance of Council’s Closed Landfills, including the provision of forecasts, projections, and the development of financial reports.
• Provide high-quality, professional written and verbal reports, presentations, and advice to the Coordinator Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres, Manager Waste and Sustainability, other departments, the Executive Leadership Team, Council, and other agencies.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Experience and knowledge of closed landfill management and EPA Victoria requirements.
• Experience in the development and successful delivery of projects and programs.
• Knowledge and experience in developing, negotiating, and managing a complex range of contracts and agreements with in-house and external parties to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrated strong project management skills, safely managing capital and implementation projects from concept to project closure within approved budgets, specifications, program, stakeholder and EPA requirements.
• Demonstrated success in gaining cooperation and assistance from a broad range of stakeholders, through a highly developed negotiation skills to achieve desired outcomes.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of a range of services disciplines, activities and delivery within a Local Government environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Local Government Act and other Statutes and subordinate legislation in relation to closed landfills and Council Service delivery.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, environmental science/management or a related discipline with relevant experience working in the field.
• Current driver’s licence (experience driving light vehicles off-road/at landfills preferred).

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid