Senior Civil Engineer

The Opportunity:

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow!

Due to sustained growth, we are currently looking to engage a Senior Civil Engineer or Associate Civil Engineer to join our Property and Buildings group in our Darwin office. 

Our Property and Buildings team is a world-leading management and technical consultancy operating across all sectors. We are passionate about tackling the complex and sophisticated challenges of the built environment and delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to create accessible, resilient and liveable communities.

This role is vital to the ongoing success of our P&B Civil team in Darwin and offers career development opportunities and professional growth. You will enjoy autonomy whilst running projects and leading small teams. At the same time, you will collaborate with talented and diverse professionals working on iconic projects to drive future ready outcomes that will benefit clients and communities.

WSP Darwin has a friendly workplace culture which is part of what makes this a great place to work. As a leader in this office, you will have the opportunity to influence and contribute to social and community initiatives while collaborating with your colleagues to make a positive impact on people’s lives. You will also enjoy the rewarding experience of mentoring younger professionals and seeing them succeed and progress in their careers over time.

What you will do:

• Work on iconic projects
• Work in a high impact, market-facing and civil engineering delivery focused role
• Manage ongoing communication and highly effective professional relationships with local clients
• Ascertain specifications and evolving client requirements
• Proactively determine, manage, monitor and control scope of works
• Ensure timely and quality of delivery for project and civil engineering work in support of relevant technical, commercial and regulatory standards – and in alignment with schedules and budgets
• Manage effective stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally
• Provide sound technical/delivery guidance for the team
• Mentor, train and develop the careers of junior engineers
• Partner with internal stakeholders and a collaborative, national team in a multidisciplinary engineering setting.

About you:

• Bachelor to Masters’ level degree (Civil Engineering)
• Chartered status with Engineers Australia (desirable)
• Excellent expertise in civil engineering and design documentation, including sound working knowledge of relevant Standards and Codes
• Solid industry experience on Australian civil engineering projects, ideally in a consulting environment
• High level of expertise in effectively delivering multiple, concurrent projects ranging and scale and sector
• Sound client facing, business development and account/relationship management skills
• Strong project management skills, including managing civil engineering teams
• Adept in cross-discipline project delivery and an effective collaborator with all key engineering disciplines
• Ideally well-versed tendering requirements and influencing successful outcomes being achieved
• Well versed with tendering requirements and ensuring successful outcomes
• Proven ability to lead, train and mentor junior engineers across technical and project delivery aspects
• Highly developed customer-focus, leadership, teamwork, interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills.

About WSP

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisers including engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Transport & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Mining & Energy, and Water sectors and are at the forefront of integrated digital innovations. With approximately 5,000 talented people in 14 offices across Australia, we engineer Future ReadyTM projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. wsp.com/au

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

• We value our people and our reputation.
• We are locally dedicated with international scale.
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
• We foster collaboration in everything we do.
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

Think this could be the opportunity for you? Apply now to begin your journey with WSP.

WSP supports a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

Please note: We will not be receiving applications via recruitment agencies.