Senior Civil Engineer

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

The Opportunity

Shape the future of transport with WSP

At WSP, we help shape cities and communities through innovative, sustainable transport solutions. With a strong pipeline of work across roads, transport infrastructure and urban development, we’re looking for a Senior Civil Engineer to play a key role in delivering complex projects and growing our transport capability.

This is an opportunity to step into a senior technical role where you’ll influence design outcomes, work closely with clients, mentor emerging engineers, and contribute to winning and delivering meaningful work.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Civil Engineer in our Transport team, you’ll work across the full project lifecycle, combining strong technical capability with client focus and commercial awareness. Your role will include:

• Designing and delivering civil and transport engineering solutions, including road, drainage and related infrastructure
• Preparing technical reports and reviewing project outputs in line with the delegation of authority
• Managing the scope, quality, risk and delivery of multiple projects of varying size and complexity
• Contributing to – and leading – winning proposals
• Building trusted client relationships and proactively identifying new business opportunities
• Collaborating across disciplines and leveraging WSP’s national and global expertise
• Supporting digital engineering and BIM‑enabled delivery approaches
• Championing safety‑in‑design, quality systems and SHEQ obligations
• Mentoring and supporting graduates and early‑career engineers
• Actively progressing your professional development, including chartership

About you

You’re a motivated civil engineer who enjoys solving problems, working collaboratively and delivering high‑quality outcomes for clients. You bring:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent)
• Typically 5+ years’ experience in civil / transport engineering
• Experience delivering small to medium projects
• Exposure to managing or supervising graduates and junior engineers
• Strong knowledge of relevant standards, legislation and design guidelines
• Experience applying safety‑in‑design, QA and OH&S systems
• The ability to build and maintain effective client relationships
• Experience with civil and drainage design tools such as 12d, CAD, DRAINS, MUSIC or similar
• Construction phase or superintendency experience (well‑regarded but not essential)
• A commitment to working towards Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 73,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

An employee Share Purchase Plan is available to all our permanent employees who wish to become owners and vested partners in WSP’s collective success. To find out more about our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Employee Benefits page.

With us, you can. Apply today.