Senior Project Engineer

Location: Brisbane - George Street

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Queensland, Australia

Job Family Group:

Projects

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

March 5, 2026

Business Unit:

Upstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The Senior Project Engineer will be accountable for driving safety and be responsible for planning, design, construction management and asset management of the Off Plot (public) road network.  The role also involves providing project engineering (civil) support to the Well Engineering Construction team.

What you’ll be doing

• Embed HSSE and Sustainable Development principles into road design, planning, programming, and execution, ensuring full compliance with business standards.

• Liaise and negotiate with government authorities (MRC, WDRC, TMR) to manage QGC’s traffic impacts and secure agreements for road upgrades and maintenance.

• Apply strong knowledge of road design, traffic planning, and relevant standards (Australian Standards, TMR Manuals, AustRoads) for Offplot road management.

• Develop and maintain traffic network models and traffic histograms to forecast and support road maintenance and upgrade planning across project phases.

• Analyse traffic data to define scopes of work for sealed and unsealed roads, ensuring safety, defect mitigation, and reliable access.

• Assist in setting intervention and maintenance service levels for government roads using RMPC and other technical standards.

• Plan, develop, and manage road upgrade and maintenance programmes, ensuring delivery of milestones, access dates, and budget compliance.

• Coordinate road safety inspections/audits and review contractor traffic management plans for compliance with MUTCD and design manuals.

• Provide technical civil engineering input for road designs, intersections, drainage, erosion control, and construction activities; prepare tender/contract documentation.

• Oversee contractors, manage budgets, monitor project progress, assess risks, and support delivery across the Offplot Roads and Well Engineering lifecycle, with periodic site travel required.

What you bring

We are keen to speak to professionals with as many of the following:

• Minimum B.S. Degree: Civil Engineering.

• Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland (Civil).

• Extensive Civil Engineering experience with delivering sealed and unsealed roads through design, construction, maintenance and execution.

• Significant experience working with Local or State Government Road Agencies (Council and TMR) to deliver road projects.

• Proven experience with the geometric road design and pavement design of rural roads (sealed and unsealed) using design manuals and specifications.

• Proven experience with managing and delivering upgrade and maintenance of rural roads (sealed and unsealed) in Queensland.

• Proven experience in traffic and transport with a focus on traffic modelling for rural road networks, and an ability to analyse traffic modelling results and develop scopes of works to mitigate increased traffic impacts to sealed and unsealed roads.

• Relevant experience working in the Coal Seam Gas industry.

APPLICATION PERIOD WILL RUN UNTIL MARCH 19.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and

• international teams.

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.

Shell in Australia

Shell has operated in Australia since 1901. From operating Australia’s first oil refinery, which was central to meeting Australia’s fuel needs, to fuelling the first Qantas commercial flight in the 1920s, to playing a foundation role in building some of Australia’s largest and most innovative natural resource developments.

Throughout this 124-year relationship the needs of our customers and the nation have changed and we have continued transforming our portfolio to meet these needs. Today, we are a leading natural gas producer and are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities.

Shell has a significant Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business in Australia that makes a valuable contribution to today’s energy supply. This integrated gas portfolio includes our two Shell-operated gas production and liquefaction businesses, Shell QGC in Queensland and Prelude Floating LNG offshore in Western Australia, and our joint venture interests in Gorgon and North West Shelf in Western Australia and Arrow Energy in Queensland.

Today, Shell’s portfolio in Australia also includes zero- and low-carbon energy businesses such as commercial and industrial retailer, Shell Energy carbon farming specialist, Select Carbon the 120MW Gangarri solar development; residential energy retailer, Powershop Australia a 49% stake in WestWind Australia a 50% share of Kondinin Energy and several grid-scale Battery Energy Storage Solutions projects. High quality Shell branded fuels and lubricants are available right across Australia, through an exclusive brand license arrangement with Viva Energy.

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