Graduate Hydraulic Engineer: Flexible Work & Growth

Lucid Consulting Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Parental leave

Career development

Job summary

Sydney CSA Recruitment is seeking a Senior Hydraulic Engineer to lead hydraulic services design for iconic commercial, residential, health, and education projects. Based in Australia, you will mentor junior engineers and manage client relationships while delivering innovative, sustainable solutions.

The role offers flexible working arrangements and clear career progression within a collaborative, people-first culture.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Hydraulic/Building Services design.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to deliver projects and manage client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead hydraulic services design from concept to completion.
• Coordinate with architects, builders and clients for sustainable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure compliance with codes, standards and sustainability requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationship management

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Engineering degree in Mechanical/Building Services/Hydraulic

Tools

InfoWorks WS/ICM, WaterGEMS/SewerGEMS, EPANET, EPA SWMM

Job description

Senior Hydraulic Engineer - Building Services

Sydney CSA Recruitment

Job Description

21st September, 2026

• Lead iconic commercial, residential, health, and education projects
• Autonomy to manage your own projects while mentoring junior engineers
• Collaborative culture with flexible working arrangements
• Competitive salary package and clear career progression

What you'll be doing:

• Leading hydraulic services design from concept through to completion
• Coordinating with architects, builders, and clients to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers
• Ensuring projects meet industry standards, codes, and sustainability requirements

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years' experience in Hydraulic/Building Services design
• Degree qualified in Mechanical / Building Services / Hydraulic Engineering (or similar)
• Proven ability to deliver projects and manage client relationships
• Chartered (CPEng) or working towards is a plus
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills

This is your chance to join a consultancy that values technical excellence, career growth, and a supportive, people-first culture.

About our Water team

Beca HunterH2O is the Australian water business of one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design and engineering consultancies, Beca. We are a formidable team of 300+ water specialists, passionate about healthy and sustainable communities wherever we work.

Using our deep knowledge and broader capability, we collaborate with our clients through city and regional offices operating in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, Tamworth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Fiji.

Combining the capability of our expert water specialists with access to more than 4,000 multi-disciplinary specialists, we bring the best of Beca to our clients, to “Make Every Day Better”.

The Opportunity

We are looking for people passionate about water that want to make a difference by helping provide clean water, reduce, reuse and recycle water. We are seeking a well-rounded Senior Hydraulic Engineer to join our growing water team. This role can be based out of any of our main locations across Australia and New Zealand.

This exciting opportunity will enable you to showcase and use your vast technical knowledge of conveyance pipelines, pump stations, and treatment plants and apply them to today’s challenges. You will have a chance to mentor, learn and work independently as a key team member.

This opportunity will see you providing solutions and service to clients off and on site, taking lead roles in project engineering and technical leadership. You’ll be able to build strong customer relationships and demonstrate your ability to understand our client's core business and ensure that services meet their expectations.

This role can be based at either our Sydney or Melbourne offices.

This role will also provide you with the following:

• A supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and career development and opportunities
• A flexible work arrangement, working both remotely and in the office
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Mentorship from experienced engineers

About You

You will be driven by a diversity of experiences, who sees your career as being fluid, seeking fulfilment in autonomy, career flexibility and in working for a business that can provide purpose and relevance in what you do.

You will have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence and drive successful project outcomes for the business and our valuable clients and the ability to independently develop scope of hydraulic services to support business development activities.

You will enjoy providing support and mentoring to junior team members whilst working collaboratively with other team members and stakeholders. Experience working in a consulting environment delivering projects as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-office project team will also be well-regarded.

You will also have:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or related engineering discipline
• Chartered Professional Engineer registration / or looking to obtain chartership
• Understanding of water/wastewater industry standards and best practices
• Broad experience in water conveyance and hydraulic engineering that includes large diameter pipelines and networks, pump stations, treatment plants, and hydraulic structures

Strong experience with hydraulic analyses covering:

• Pressurised pipelines and networks
• Pump system curves
• Fluid transients and design of mitigation measures
• Gravity sewer, stormwater, and other gravity-driven flows
• Treatment plant hydraulics
• Open channel flow
• Flow control and energy dissipation structures
• Management of air entrainment

Experience in the following will also be desirable:

• Pump and valve selection
• Pipe specification and pipeline design
• Ocean outfalls
• Sludge and slurry pumping
• Experience with a range of hydraulic software, such as Infoworks WS and ICM, WaterGEMS, SewerGEMS, EPANET, EPA SWMM, Fluidflow, Fathom, Hytran, Impulse, Hammer and the like
• Experience in developing hydraulic grade lines and hydraulic profiles

A career with Beca will provide you with:

• Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement
• Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive. Bring your whole self to work and take advantage of unique shareholder opportunities to share in our collective success
• Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders
• Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning through our training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to CPEng accreditation. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands‑on experience to empower your career potential

Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

Who is Beca?

Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients. At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.