Senior Engineering Officer (Materials/Mechanical)

• UQ Materials Performance

• $88k - $94k + super 17% + leave loading

• Broaden your career within one of QLD's largest employers

• Bring your materials and mechanical engineering capabilities to join an experienced and passionate multidisciplinary team.

• Full time, fixed term position for up to three years based at our St Lucia campus

About This Opportunity 

The Senior Engineering Officer provides specialist technical support and subject matter expertise in support of high quality outcomes for UQ Materials Performance (UQMP) clients and works independently under the supervision of consulting staff.

UQ Materials Performance is one of Australia’s leading consultancies in the field of materials engineering and science.  Founded in 1998, UQ Materials Performance provides professional consultancy, expert opinion and contract research services in materials engineering, with a focus on materials characterisation, failure analysis and investigations.   

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Provide technical laboratory support and advice on relevant and appropriate laboratory methods, equipment, quality assurance procedures, risk assessment and waste management.

• Receive enquiries from external clients, determine client's needs and design consulting and research project scopes.

• Apply consultancy skills including technical writing and communication, the collection and interpretation of data to determine client outcomes and prepare various documents to communicate project outcomes to clients.

• Perform a wide variety of metallurgical and mechanical engineering techniques to gain relevant information including Metallography, SEM-EDS, dynamic mechanical testing and sample preparation techniques.

• Assists senior consulting staff to perform major investigations and complete complex technical challenges.

• Independently perform consulting projects with limited input from senior staff.

• Ensure a high standard of occupational health and safety, risks analysis/mitigation and standards and systems, including inductions, supervision, equipment training registers, administration of Laboratory/Facility Inventories, reporting and investigating injuries, incidents and hazards.

This is a full time, fixed term position for up to three years.   

At HEW level 6, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $88,099 - $94,512, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $103,076 - $110,579 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year

About You  

We are looking for an engineer to be part of the UQMP team and apply their professional and technical expertise to the consulting and commercial research services that UQMP provides to external clients.

The successful applicant is expected to have the following;

• Completion of a relevant bachelor level degree in materials or mechanical engineering with subsequent experience in an engineering environment or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

• Demonstrated laboratory knowledge and skills encompassing a range of laboratory equipment (eg. metallography and scanning electron microscopy).

• Experience of working in an engineering team or consultancy.

• Technical capabilities in materials and/or mechanical engineering.

• Project management experience or understanding of the fundamentals of managing multiple small projects.

You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment and may be required to complete background checks including, criminal history and education checks.

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 17% superannuation contributions.

• 17.5% annual leave loading.

• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight.

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family.

• On campus childcare options.

• Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day).

• Salary packaging options.

Want to Apply? 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section.  

• Resume 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Lenny at [email protected]  . For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 

Applications close Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-34041).

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If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.