Senior Project Engineer (White Space ECI)

Senior Project Engineer (White Space ECI)

Location: Perth CBD
Employment Type: 6 months casual contract with likelihood of extension

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer – White Space ECI to lead the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) workstream for mission‑critical and white space infrastructure. This role will take ownership of scoping, procuring, managing, and closing out the ECI phase, ensuring contractor insights are effectively transitioned into FEED, procurement packages, and the downstream D&C delivery model.

Working closely with Engineering, Systems Integration, Area Managers, Construction, Procurement, Commercial and Package Delivery teams, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring constructability, modularisation, execution planning and pricing inputs are captured early and integrated into the project’s technical and delivery frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end delivery of the Mission Critical & White Space ECI workstream, including scope development, programme planning and governance.
• Develop ECI scope, deliverables, programme and governance, ensuring alignment with FEED and project objectives.
• Manage ECI mobilisation, meetings, actions, contractor inputs and deliverable acceptance, maintaining clear accountability and progress visibility.
• Coordinate constructability, modularisation, execution planning, schedule and pricing outputs, ensuring contractor insights are robust, validated and actionable.
• Ensure ECI outputs are incorporated into the FEED reference design, procurement packages and D&C scope, enabling seamless transition into detailed engineering.
• Support novation and transition readiness at commencement of Detailed Engineering, ensuring contractor knowledge and deliverables are fully integrated.
• Collaborate across key interfaces, including Lead Project Engineer, Systems Integration, Area Managers, Engineering, Package Delivery, Construction, Contracts & Procurement, and Commercial.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Extensive experience delivering complex engineering scopes within major infrastructure or mission‑critical environments.
• Proven capability managing high‑value ECI contractor workstreams independently.
• Strong understanding of constructability, modularisation, execution planning and early‑phase pricing methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical inputs and manage interfaces across engineering, procurement and construction teams.
• Experience transitioning ECI outputs into FEED, procurement packages and D&C delivery models.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering or a related discipline.

Highly Regarded

Experience within one or more of the following sectors:

• Data Centres

• Mission Critical Infrastructure

• Industrial Infrastructure

• Major Capital Projects

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to contribute to a major mission‑critical infrastructure development.
• Work alongside industry‑leading engineering, systems integration and project delivery professionals.
• Exposure to complex multidisciplinary systems and early‑phase contractor engagement.
• Long‑term career growth within a high‑profile programme of work.

If you're an experienced Project Engineer, Senior Project Engineer, Package Engineer, or Area Engineer with strong ECI delivery capability and a passion for driving early‑phase project outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

About Airswift

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.

With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.

Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)

If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to [email protected] with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact **Chris at [+61 419961113](tel:+61 419961113)**for more information