Electrical And Instrumentation Engineer

We currently have an opportunity for an Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer. Join our Government and Integrated Facilities Management team and play a key role in delivering planned and reactive maintenance for a premium commercial and R&D facility near Melbourne CBD. Reporting to the Hard Services Manager, you’ll help deliver high-quality outcomes that support our essential services.

What You’ll Do

This role offers a broad scope, with key responsibilities including:

• Drive planned and reactive maintenance of plant and equipment in line with contract requirements. 
• Uphold Zero Harm, OH&S, GxP, environmental risk and quality compliance across site activities. 
• Coordinate contractors, service delivery partners and site teams, including inductions and competencies. 
• Maintain detailed records for maintenance tasks, incidents, near misses, audits and critical spares. 
• Support audits, close non-conformances, program annual shutdowns and manage calibration, preventative, corrective and breakdown maintenance.

What You’ll Bring

• Tertiary engineering qualification and related postgraduate qualifications. 
• Extensive experience in a similar role within a highly regulated industry. 
• Working knowledge of building services, including electrical, mechanical, fire and hydraulic systems. 
• High computer literacy across CMMS, Microsoft Office and SAP. 
• Ability to read technical drawings and specifications, communicate with stakeholders, lead teams and manage subcontractors.

More than anything, you’ll bring a strong work ethic, a positive attitude, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes for our clients.

Why Downer?

At Downer, we plan, create, and sustain essential public services across Australia and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.

What It Means to Belong at Downer

We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity, offering:

• Training and development to support and diversify your career. 

• With 30% of vacancies filled internally you’ll find real opportunities to advance your career.

• Perks@Downer: healthcare discounts, great savings on retail purchases, car purchases and much more.

• Employee Assistance Program: professional support for you and your family when you need it most.

You want your work to matter and so do we.  With over 26,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with unique perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas.

We know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through our commitment to inclusion and belonging.

We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and we welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities, and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from those whose voices have traditionally been underrepresented in our industry, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pasifika Peoples, veterans, people with disability, and neurodivergent individuals.  Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with this role, we’d still like to hear from you. If it feels like the right fit, apply - potential counts, and so do you.

As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life, inclusive leadership that values your voice, and equitable access to opportunity so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.

If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re here to help you put your best foot forward.

At Downer we plan, create and sustain. Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with our customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure, and facilities.