Highways Design Lead — Senior Civil Engineer (Flexible)

Mott MacDonald Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Agile working

Life insurance

Employee resource groups

Annual health checks

Professional development

Job summary

Mott MacDonald in Sydney is seeking an experienced Senior Civil Engineer to lead and deliver iconic Australian highways and road infrastructure projects.

You will manage multi-disciplinary design teams, coordinate with clients and stakeholders, and drive technical excellence, safety, and digital design integration across the project lifecycle. The role offers leadership opportunities within our Roads and Highways team and a pathway to grow the civil design capability.

Qualifications

• Degree in civil engineering or equivalent qualification.
• 5+ years’ transport infrastructure design experience including D&C, ECI or Alliance delivery models.
• Proven ability to manage complex design interfaces and multidisciplinary teams.
• Good understanding of client and stakeholder requirements, including stage gates, comment close-out, and design maturity.
• Able to translate technical requirements into clear, client-focused deliverables.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Builds trusted client relationships and delivers high-quality outcomes.
• Proven track record leading small to medium-sized complex D&C projects and / or leading the civil discipline in a major D&D.

Responsibilities

• Design and Project Management: manage end-to-end design lifecycle for major highways and road infrastructure projects, including scoping, design development, and technical assurance.
• Design Oversight: contribute to and oversee the preparation of designs, reports, specifications, and digital models (2D/3D).
• Stakeholder Engagement: act as the primary point of contact for clients, contractors, and internal teams.
• Digital Engineering: leverage Revizto, ProjectWise, Sharepoint and BIM platforms to manage digital design data and workflows.
• Team Development: mentor junior engineers and contribute to capability building.
• Coordination: lead design review activities with internal and external stakeholders to meet program and quality requirements.
• Quality & Assurance: implement quality assurance protocols including team selection, competency management, and design requirements allocation/verification.

Skills

Civil design

Stakeholder management

Bidding / work-winning

Project leadership

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Revizto

ProjectWise

SharePoint

BIM platforms

Job description

Mott MacDonald in Sydney is seeking an experienced Senior Civil Engineer to lead and deliver iconic Australian highways and road infrastructure projects.

You will manage multi-disciplinary design teams, coordinate with clients and stakeholders, and drive technical excellence, safety, and digital design integration across the project lifecycle. The role offers leadership opportunities within our Roads and Highways team and a pathway to grow the civil design capability.