Manager Engineer (PO6)

Economic Development Queensland

Your team – Development Services

Development Services uses the wide-ranging powers of the Economic Development Act 2012 to deliver housing, commercial and industrial development outcomes for Queensland. You will be part of a connected, accountable, impactful and nimble team that is working to enable transformative developments across the State with pace and scale.

Development Services comprises a mix of planning, urban design, built form, engineering and commercial professionals responsible for the identification and implementation of the state’s PDAs and Accelerated Development Opportunity sites and precincts.

Working closely with EDQ’s Housing Supply and Delivery team and industry, Development Services will enable new housing, commercial and mixed-use development across Queensland through planning, development approvals and a significant infrastructure funding program to ensure the right infrastructure is delivered in the right place, at the right time to accelerate the supply of development ready land.

Your contribution

As Manager Development Services (Engineering), you will contribute to all aspects of the PDA lifecycle including providing input into development schemes, network infrastructure planning, development assessment and compliance assessment.

You Will

  • Provide technical leadership and direction to the team in relation to transport, stormwater, water and sewerage infrastructure matters to drive integrated and sustainable engineering outcomes.
  • Lead the development of team capability to drive high performance, continuous improvement and a customer focused culture.
  • Build high level relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including industry, local government, water utilities and other authorities to facilitate timely and integrated high-quality strategic or statutory infrastructure planning outcomes.
  • Lead the assessment of highly complex development applications in line with legislative and policy requirements.
  • Review delivered and committed infrastructure against infrastructure strategies for existing PDAs, consider future infrastructure requirements and provide strategic infrastructure planning advice to inform updates and/or development of planning instruments.
  • Prepare and present high quality professional written information, interpretations, briefings, presentations and reports.
  • Work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement business process improvements relevant to work practices.

Contact Details: Amanda Dryden – (07) 3452 7697 | Access the National Relay Service

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