Principal Civil Design Engineer - Urban Development

Description Arcadis; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Principal Design Engineer in Melbourne to lead complex urban development projects. You will provide technical leadership, oversee design delivery, and mentor a multi-disciplinary team across local and international colleagues.

You will utilize extensive experience in civil engineering and urban design, ensuring compliance with industry standards while guiding project risk management and client communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in Civil Engineering with relevant professional recognition.
• Chartered Professional Engineer status (RPEV) and MRWA accreditation (SD1/SD2/WD1/WD2) preferred.
• Registered Building Practitioner in Victoria (or eligibility) is advantageous.
• Extensive industry experience (10–15+ years) in urban development design and project delivery.
• Strong knowledge of IDM, EDCM, Austroads and Melbourne Water guidelines.
• Experience with sewer rising main and pump station design is desirable.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for urban development engineering designs, ensuring quality, budget and schedule targets.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers to grow the technical capability of the team.
• Manage designs and internal teams with QA processes to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Foster collaboration across disciplines and external organisations to enhance technical offerings.
• Coordinate involvement of interstate and overseas teams as part of integrated service delivery.

Skills

Mentor junior engineers

Leadership

Strong communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Civil Engineering degree

Chartered Professional Engineer (RPEV)

MRWA accreditation (SD1/SD2/WD1/WD2)

Registered Building Practitioner in Victoria

Tools

IDM

EDCM

Austroads guidelines

Melbourne Water guidelines

Job description

Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

Our Urban Development & Regeneration division is seeking a highly experienced Principal Design Engineer to join our Melbourne team. In this role, you will play a vital part in helping us expand our business and strengthen our technical capabilities. You will provide technical leadership, support junior engineers, and contribute to all stages of project delivery.

Role accountabilities

• Provide technical advice, guidance and overview of the day-to-day delivery of urban development engineering designs (primarily for Greenfield projects, including major estate works, and built-form/strata residential developments), while ensuring all work meets agreed budget, quality, safety, and timeframe targets. Contribute to project due diligence, cost estimate, master planning, functional and detailed design, and assist construction engineers during delivery;
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, helping to build a strong and capable technical team;
• Managing selected designs and internal design team to develop and implement the highest level of technical delivery through effective QA and review process while exceeding client expectations;
• Building effective and enduring relationships with our other teams and technical disciplines, and external organisations to foster co-operation and maximize our technical offering to ensure the integrity and quality of the overall design;
• Championing the involvement and inclusion of our interstate and overseas teams by ensuring a seamless part of our service offering.
  

Qualifications & Experience

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life and want to be part of city-shaping projects and providing the best solutions to our clients.

You are a tertiary qualified engineer with extensive experience in urban development design and come to us with:

• Relevant degree (Civil Engineering) recognised by a relevant Industry Association or Institute;
• Chartered Professional Engineer status, and RPEV, with MRWA accreditation (SD1, SD2, WD1, WD2);
• Registered building practitioner in Victoria, with competency to provide Regulation 126 certificates for civil component of build form projects (preferred);
• Extensive industry experience (minimum 10-15 years) including overseeing the engineering aspects of a project, application of standards and technical knowledge within the VIC urban development market;
• Strong working knowledge of IDM, EDCM, Austroads and Melbourne Water guidelines.
• Experience with sewer rising main and pump station design is desirable;
• Ability to provide technical expertise and direction through consultative support and effective communication to the teams;
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and supporting project teams;
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and complex project environment;
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills, both internally and externally.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skill-based approach, where you can hardness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Veterans and spouses are invited to apply.

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