Senior Civil Engineer

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

Brilliant people trusted to do brilliant things

Mott MacDonald is a vibrant and forward-thinking engineering, management, and development consultancy. Working together as a global team we plan, design, deliver and maintain the transport, energy, water, buildings, and wider infrastructure that is integral to people’s daily lives. We value excellence in every dimension of our business and continuously seek opportunities to improve what we do and how we do it.

We employ brilliant people who combine their diverse skills and experiences to achieve brilliant things. Whether you want to specialise or broaden your experience, you'll be supported by global specialists eager to share their expertise. With numerous opportunities to learn and grow, the possibilities are as diverse as our people. Working as a connected global team, we deliver impactful projects that shape the future.

Building on our recent growth in the Highways market across Australia, our Roads and Highways team is seeking an experienced Civil Engineer in Sydney to lead and deliver Iconic Australian projects, where you’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow our civil design capability, expand your own horizons and support growth within our wider transport team, focusing on embedding technical excellence at the core of everything we do.

The Senior Civil Engineer role will support growth across the business unit by way of quality civil, roads and highways engineering design, team leadership and design management functions as well as project management if that is also of interest. You will be responsible for the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex highway and road infrastructure design projects and providing advice on all engineering design matters to a range of stakeholders and solving civil infrastructure related problems. This role ensures technical excellence, stakeholder alignment, and timely delivery across multidisciplinary teams, with a strong focus on safety, digital design integration, and client satisfaction.

Depending on your specific expertise, your responsibilities will include various aspects of:

• Design and Project Management: Manage the 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), ensuring compliance with client requirements, standards, and quality benchmarks.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary point of contact for clients, contractors, and internal teams, facilitating design reviews, workshops (e.g., Safety in Design), and approvals.
• Digital Engineering: Leverage tools including Revizto, ProjectWise, Sharepoint and BIM platforms to interrogate and manage digital design data, workflows, and deliverables.
• Team Development: Mentor junior engineers and contribute to capability building through the Highways Academy and internal knowledge-sharing platforms. Manage the development of multi-disciplinary design coordination, understanding of civil, rail/road, structures and geotechnical interfaces and dependencies.
• Coordination: Lead & manage design review activities with internal and external stakeholders to meet program and quality requirements
• Quality & Assurance: Diligently implement quality assurance protocols including team selection, competency management, and design requirements allocation/verification

About you

• Degree in civil engineering or an 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&C.
• Experience leading or contributing to bidding and work-winning initiatives.

Mott MacDonald celebrates diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive work environment that values work-life balance, diversity, inclusion, and equity. We welcome diverse applicants, including First Nations People, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of all genders, neurodiversity, cultural backgrounds, age groups, and those with intersectional identities.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working environment, supporting our people to work flexibly
• Life, personal accident, and salary continuance insurance
• Employee resource groups including the Inclusive Network for Women, Corporate Social Responsibility and more
• Annual Health Checks and ongoing professional development

You’ve got this!

We endorse a diverse and inclusive workplace, and look to provide suitable opportunities for employees including the opportunity for part time and job shared roles where possible.