Project Manager / Senior Civil Engineer - Water

The Right Water Company; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Right Water Company is seeking an experienced Project Manager / Senior Civil Engineer - Water to join our growing team. This role is hands-on across the full project lifecycle, delivering water infrastructure with clients and the broader team.

You will take responsibility for day-to-day delivery, coordinate engineers and designers, and make practical technical and project decisions. A decade of water-sector experience and commercial awareness are expected, with groundwater and pipeline

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Around 10 years' experience in the water infrastructure sector.
• Experience managing and delivering water infrastructure projects.
• Experience with groundwater schemes, bores, pipelines, pump stations or associated infrastructure.
• Commercial awareness and consulting project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage water infrastructure projects from planning and design through to delivery.
• Remain actively involved in the technical and practical aspects of project delivery.
• Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, risks and deliverables.
• Coordinate engineers, designers and other disciplines to achieve project outcomes.
• Work directly with clients to understand requirements and resolve project issues.
• Provide technical input and make practical engineering and project decisions.
• Prepare and review project documentation, reports, scopes and deliverables.
• Support and guide less experienced engineers and designers.
• Work effectively within a smaller business where people are expected to take ownership and contribute beyond narrow role boundaries.
• Contribute to proposals and future project opportunities as your client relationships develop.
• Build your capability in client, commercial and people leadership as you progress.

Skills

Project management

Civil engineering

Water infrastructure

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

Project Manager / Senior Civil Engineer - Water

Ready to take greater ownership of water infrastructure projects while staying close to the technical delivery?

The Right Water Company is seeking an experienced Project Manager / Senior Civil Engineer - Water to join our growing team.

We are looking for someone with strong experience in the water sector who enjoys being hands-on across the full project lifecycle. This is not a role where you'll simply manage a large team and delegate the detail. You'll be directly involved in planning, coordinating and delivering projects while working closely with clients and the broader team.

Ideally, you've reached the point in your career where you're confident managing projects and making technical decisions, and you're now looking for an opportunity to take greater ownership and develop your leadership capability within a smaller specialist consultancy.

About the Role

You will take responsibility for the day-to-day management and delivery of water infrastructure projects, working across technical, commercial and client-facing aspects of the work.

As a growing specialist consultancy, we operate with lean project teams. You'll therefore need to be comfortable rolling up your sleeves, working through project challenges and remaining actively involved in delivery rather than relying on large internal teams or layers of support.

Projects may include:

• Water transmission and distribution pipelines
• Groundwater schemes, bores and borefields
• Pump stations
• Water treatment facilities
• Wastewater infrastructure
• Water storage infrastructure
• Associated civil and water infrastructure projects

Experience across groundwater schemes and associated water infrastructure would be particularly valuable.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage water infrastructure projects from planning and design through to delivery.
• Remain actively involved in the technical and practical aspects of project delivery.
• Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, risks and deliverables.
• Coordinate engineers, designers and other disciplines to achieve project outcomes.
• Work directly with clients to understand requirements and resolve project issues.
• Provide technical input and make practical engineering and project decisions.
• Prepare and review project documentation, reports, scopes and deliverables.
• Support and guide less experienced engineers and designers.
• Work effectively within a smaller business where people are expected to take ownership and contribute beyond narrow role boundaries.
• Contribute to proposals and future project opportunities as your client relationships develop.
• Build your capability in client, commercial and people leadership as you progress.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who combines technical credibility with practical project delivery capability.

Ideally, you will have:

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Around 10 years' experience, ideally within the water infrastructure sector.
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering water infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience in civil and water engineering, with groundwater schemes, bores, pipelines, pump stations or associated infrastructure particularly relevant.
• Experience managing project scope, budgets, schedules and competing priorities.
• The ability to work directly with clients and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating small or multidisciplinary project teams.
• The confidence to work independently and take ownership of project outcomes.
• A practical, hands-on approach to solving problems.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of consulting project delivery.
• An interest in developing broader leadership responsibility over time.

Chartered status, or progress towards professional recognition, would be well regarded but is not essential.

The Type of Person Who Will Thrive Here

You'll probably enjoy this role if you're someone who:

• Likes doing and delivering, not just overseeing.
• Is comfortable working without a large support structure around you.
• Can move between technical work, project management and a client conversation in the same day.
• Takes ownership rather than waiting for issues to be escalated.
• Enjoys working as part of a smaller team where people genuinely rely on each other.
• Has strong technical foundations but wants to continue developing commercially and as a leader.
• Sees leadership as the next stage of their career, rather than wanting to step away from project delivery.

You don't need to arrive as an established business leader. We're interested in someone with the technical experience, judgement and project management capability to step into greater leadership responsibility over time.

Why Join The Right Water Company?

This is an opportunity to have greater ownership of the projects you work on and greater visibility of the impact you make.

You'll remain close to the technical work while expanding your experience across project management, clients, commercial delivery and team leadership.

Because we're a specialist and growing consultancy, you won't be one part of a large project structure. You'll have the opportunity to see projects through, work directly with clients and contribute to solving the issues that affect successful delivery.

As the business grows, there is a genuine pathway to take on larger projects, stronger client relationships and broader leadership responsibilities.