Associate Director - CivilHybrid

• Opportunity to work on top-tier, landmark projects 
• Senior leadership role within our renowned specialist civil engineering group 
• Competitive salary package 
• Flexible working hours and supportive working from home environment 

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

Our WSP Property and Buildings Civil group have an exciting role for an Associate Director – Civil to join our growing team in Sydney.  

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. 

We are immensely proud of our extensive portfolio of projects – both current and future. It demonstrates our breadth of capability and depth of expertise to transform our clients' vision into reality, that are sustainable in every sense - commercially, technically, socially and environmentally.  

Our NSW team is working on the best projects in Sydney for the best clients, including Waterloo Metro Station and Waterloo Over Station Development, major hospital developments, road upgrades, schools and many more. 

Our Changemakers enjoy: 

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work environment 
• A social, collaborative, and inclusive culture with a calendar full of social and networking events 
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program and to corporate health and travel discounts 
• 12 weeks parental leave
• Options for global mobility and purchased additional leave 
• And much more. 

What you’ll do 

As an Associate Director you will:  

• Operate in a market-facing and design delivery focused role; 
• Handle ongoing communication and highly effective professional relationships with local clients; 
• Proactively determine, manage, monitor and control scope of works; 
• Project lead work across the design, delivery and tender phases for multi-year/packaged work for turnkey projects; 
• Ensure timely and quality of delivery for 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; 
• Champion own continual professional development and mentor, train and develop the careers of junior engineers; 
• Partner with internal stakeholders and a collaborative, national team in a multidisciplinary engineering setting. 
• Support / lead in proposal preparation 

About you 

The successful candidate we are looking for will have: 

• Proven experience in providing key technical expertise across a broad range of high profile projects as the project leader within the Property & Buildings sector on large or complex brownfield projects; 
• Well versed in effectively delivering multiple, concurrent projects ranging in scale and sector, e.g. commercial, residential, industrial, land development, subdivisions and infrastructure/roads; 
• Typically 12 to 15+ years’ industry experience; 
• Well-developed client facing, business development and account/relationship management skills; 
• The ability to lead, train and mentor junior engineers across technical and project delivery aspects. 

About WSP 

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 6,000 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready™ projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.  

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 LQBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work. 

Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role. 

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