Senior Civil Designer

Aecom Australia Pty Ltd; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Additional annual leave up to 6 weeks

Flexible public holidays

Job summary

AECOM in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Civil Designer to deliver advanced civil design across defence, energy, water, aviation and transport sectors. You will embed digital delivery practices and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Australia, contributing to local and multi-office projects.

Join a global team focused on high-quality technical outcomes, strong stakeholder engagement, and flexible work arrangements including hybrid options.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, codes and guidelines applicable to civil design.
• Proven experience in delivering civil design solutions across multiple disciplines and project types, ideally in a consulting and/or complex delivery environment.
• Strong proficiency in 12d, 12d Synergy, AutoCAD, Civil3D and ProjectWise, along with a strong team-oriented working style.
• A strong commitment to high-quality technical outcomes, supported by clear communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with internal teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently perform advanced technical delivery of civil design solutions, leveraging tools such as 12d, 12d Synergy, AutoCAD, Civil3D and ProjectWise, while ensuring compliance with project requirements and digital delivery standards.
• Develop and document design packages covering earthworks, roadworks, civil site design, and drainage, ensuring alignment with relevant standards, guidelines, and client specifications.
• Manage and contribute to all or parts of projects, ensuring quality design outcomes and timely delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior designers/modellers, while coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams (engineers, designers, project managers and architects) to ensure effective collaboration and integrated project delivery.

Tools

12d

12d Synergy

AutoCAD

Civil3D

ProjectWise

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Our Civil Design team delivers a diverse portfolio of civil infrastructure projects across defence, energy, water, aviation, and transport. We focus on embedding digital capability into our delivery, providing opportunities to grow your expertise across a range of modern design and information management platforms. Because we operate in a highly collaborative, connected environment, you will contribute not only to local and state-based projects, but also support multi-office delivery across Australia, working with teams that bring deep technical expertise and varied sector experience.

We welcome applications from people who are passionate about civil design, digital delivery, and working across varied infrastructure sectors in a supportive, high-performing team.

How you’ll make a difference

• Independently perform advanced technical delivery of civil design solutions, leveraging tools such as 12d, 12d Synergy, AutoCAD, Civil3D and ProjectWise, while ensuring compliance with project requirements and digital delivery standards.
• Develop and document design packages covering earthworks, roadworks, civil site design, and drainage, ensuring alignment with relevant standards, guidelines, and client specifications.
• Manage and contribute to all or parts of projects, ensuring quality design outcomes and timely delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior designers/modellers, while coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams (engineers, designers, project managers and architects) to ensure effective collaboration and integrated project delivery.

Qualifications

The qualities that help you thrive

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role.

• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant Australian Standards, codes and guidelines applicable to civil design.
• Proven experience in delivering civil design solutions across multiple disciplines and project types, ideally in a consulting and/or complex delivery environment.
• Strong proficiency in 12d, 12d Synergy, AutoCAD, Civil3D and ProjectWise, along with a strong team-oriented working style.
• A strong commitment to high-quality technical outcomes, supported by clear communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with internal teams and stakeholders.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working with us

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Option to purchase up to 6 weeks’ additional annual leave per year
• Flex public holidays - swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders - past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses. Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.