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Senior Engineer – Maintenance Management Programs

Requisition Number: 877

Salary Range: $107,734.00 - $134,575.52 per annum

Position Type: Full Time Permanent

Location: Council Chambers, 119 – 145 Spence Street, Cairns

Application Close Date: Sunday, 23 November 2025 at 11.30pm AEST

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for infrastructure maintenance management programs, data and continuous improvement?

Do you thrive in a role where you can drive change, enhance asset performance and uplift organisational capability?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer – Maintenance Management Programs to join our team to drive key asset Tactical Maintenance Programs that shape the short & long-term sustainability and performance of our community assets. In this senior role, you will enable improvements in maintenance management programs and support key asset management practices. You will be a key driver in uplifting asset management capability, embedding robust systems, practices and enabling smarter more sustainable decision-making across the organisation.

What You Will Do:

As the Senior Engineer – Maintenance Management Programs, you will assist shaping how Council maintains and manages its infrastructure assets. This role is central to improving our maintenance management programs and offering tactical asset management support to improve asset performance and service levels.

We are looking for someone who understands the real-world challenges of infrastructure maintenance and can help enable smarter systems and practices to inform long term planning objectives. By executing core asset maintenance management programs making it easier for stakeholders to plan, prioritise and deliver renewal, strategy and risk programs that extends asset life and improves service levels.

Working closely with technical and operational teams, data systems and within asset system frameworks, you will help assist to ensure our infrastructure delivers maximum long-term value to the community through obtaining critical asset data and quantifying risk to enabling planning, optimised maintenance processes and more efficient resource utilisation.

Key Responsibilities:

Continuously improve Council’s asset management frameworks including Tactical programs for asset renewal, maintenance strategy, condition assessments, asset criticality, defect elimination, work management, change management and planned outages. In addition to forward looking programs, the role will provide tactical asset management support to relevant stakeholders where required.

What We Are Looking For:

This is a role for someone who can apply maintenance management principles into clear processes that teams can adopt and rely on every day. You will be working with data, systems and stakeholders to ensure that Council’s asset portfolio delivers maximum value to the community.

Extensive maintenance management exposure in a medium to large multi-disciplined organisation.

Deep understanding of ISO55000 standards and practises in a local government setting.

Ability to communicate asset performance and service level needs to executives, peers and operational teams.

Able to simplify complexity, engage stakeholders and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Thrive in a collaborative environment and are confident working across disciplines including maintenance management programs, data and analytics and AM systems.

Some benefits we offer:

Achieve work / life balance with flexible working arrangements

Fitness Passport - subsidised health and well-being memberships (gym/swimming pool)

Recharge with up to 5 weeks annual leave

Up to 3 weeks personal leave

Relocation assistance may be available for preferred candidates

Salary sacrifice opportunities

Grow personally and professionally with learning and development opportunities

Cherish family time with up to 14 weeks paid parental leave

We are committed to:

Fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment

Embracing innovation and continuous improvement

Cultivating a culture of professional growth and support

Now we want to hear about YOU!

Applications MUST be submitted online through the 'Apply' button and include a Cover Letter addressing the selection criteria and Resume outlining previous academic and work experience and if requested include attachments of the relevant qualifications and licenses, relating to the role.

For further information about this role please download the Position Description which includes the Key Duties, Responsibilities and Selection Criteria.

Council’s Recruitment Team can be contacted via:

Phone: (07) 4044 3310

Email: [email protected]

Website: Employment at Council | Cairns Regional Council