Senior Engineer - Drainage & Flooding

Surbana Consultants Pte Ltd – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) branch; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SMEC is seeking a Senior Engineer – Drainage & Flooding to join our Queensland team (Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast). The role demands a senior drainage specialist with 7–15 years of experience and strong 12d capabilities for hydrology, hydraulic modelling and drainage design workflows.

You will lead design packages, provide expert drainage advice, and support multidisciplinary project teams on major road and rail programs across Queensland and nationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent).
• 7–15 years’ experience in drainage and flooding design for major road/rail projects.
• Advanced capability with 12d including hydrology and modelling.
• Familiarity with Australian Standards, Austroads, and TMR requirements.
• Proven ability to deliver projects to scope, budget and timelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist technical input for drainage and flooding design.
• Lead design packages and coordinate multi‑discipline teams.
• Prepare high‑quality technical reports with minimal review.
• Support major transport programs across Queensland and nationally.

Skills

12d software

Hydrology

Hydraulic modelling

Drainage design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

12d

Job description

Senior Engineer – Drainage & Flooding Queensland (Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast) | Permanent Opportunity | Major Transport Infrastructure Projects

Join a global consultancy delivering iconic infrastructure projects. Work alongside industry‑leading specialists in a collaborative, flexible environment. Shape your career with genuine professional growth opportunities.

About SMEC

SMEC is a global engineering consultancy renowned for delivering complex, sustainable infrastructure solutions across transport, water, energy, and urban development markets. Our teams are empowered to innovate, solve technical challenges, and contribute to projects that positively shape communities across Australia and worldwide.

Infrastructure

At SMEC, we understand that our continued success within the infrastructure market is the result of building long‑term client relationships. We listen and understand the specific needs of our clients and deliver a complete value chain of services to provide sustainable solutions across major infrastructure projects worldwide.

The opportunities

We are seeking a Senior Engineer – Drainage & Flooding to join our high‑performing Queensland team. This role is ideal for an experienced drainage specialist with strong technical capability in 12d and a proven background delivering drainage and flooding design for major road and/or rail infrastructure projects. In this position, you will provide specialist technical input, lead design packages, and support multidisciplinary project teams across significant transport programs in Queensland and nationally. With a minimum of 7‑15 year’s commercial experience in delivering drainage design on road or rail projects. You will be providing expert drainage advice and demonstrating advanced technical skills, ensuring that analysis and design tasks undertaken meet appropriate technical standards that meet the requirements of our clients. With a track record of achievement in a similar role, you will have gained your experience in an engineering design consultancy and have a passion for building trusted relationships to drive positive change and win new work.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent discipline).
• 7–15 years’ experience in drainage and flooding design, ideally within a consultancy environment.
• Advanced capability with 12d, including hydrology, hydraulic modelling, and drainage design workflows.
• Strong understanding of relevant Australian Standards, Austroads guidelines, and TMR requirements.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects to client scope, budget, and timeframes.
• Ability to prepare high‑quality technical reports with minimal review.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams across major transport projects.
• Willingness to undertake occasional travel as project needs arise.

In return, SMEC offers you the benefits that come from working in a global multidisciplinary consultancy in an environment where your fresh ideas and enthusiasm will be welcomed and rewarded. When you join SMEC, you will have the opportunity to embrace your creativity and drive change across the business. Working with clients and partners, you will be part of an organisation that helps to shape our communities, industries and the global landscape. Our recent growth has provided new and exciting opportunities for our people, our employees enjoy a consistent flow of significant projects, end‑to‑end responsibilities and are motivated by meaningful work.

Link to benefits: http://www.smec.com/en_au/careers/your-career-with-SMEC

Wrap up

As an inclusive and growing organisation, SMEC is committed to building a global community of talented professionals and thought leaders.

We recognise the value and importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace and look for people with different backgrounds, skills and expertise to drive innovation and shared learning across our growing global network.

SMEC is committed to equitable recruitment practices and encourages applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders decent.

Learn more about SMEC: http://www.smec.com/en_au

https://www.smec.com/infocus/

SMEC is a global engineering, management and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions for our clients and partners. Leveraging our 70‑year history of delivering nation‑building infrastructure, we provide technical expertise and advanced engineering services to resolve complex challenges across major infrastructure and energy projects.

SMEC has a long and proud history which dates back to Australia’s iconic Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme in 1949, one of the largest and most complex hydroelectric schemes in the world.

Headquartered in Australia, we have offices across more than 35 countries in Oceania, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Together with our clients and partners, we deliver projects that directly contribute to improving health, quality of life and development outcomes for communities and neighborhoods around the world.

Driven by innovation, ingenuity and skill, our people have shaped these outcomes in some of the world’s most remote and challenging environments.

Since 2016, SMEC has been a member of the Surbana Jurong Group, an Asia‑based global powerhouse of over 16,000 employees.

Through our network of global specialists and by collaborating with local partners, we connect clients with the best teams and capabilities to deliver sustainable solutions.