Civil Engineer

When you join us at Tonkin, you become part of a team who thrive on delivering exceptional outcomes that put people and our communities first.

Founded in 1955, Tonkin is on a strong, sustained growth journey, with a creative and progressive national team working at nine offices across Australia. Proudly employee-owned, we provide imaginative and dependable engineering, environment, urban development and construction solutions to our clients in the public and private sectors. With expertise that is characterised by diversity and industry excellence, Tonkin prides itself on being a national leader in the markets of water, waste, transport, natural resources management, buildings, public works and land development.

Our growing pipeline of large-scale, high-profile, and complex projects means we are looking for the best people in their fields to join us as we realise our vision to be Australia's infrastructure consultant of choice.

You will be joining a close-knit team that prides itself on professional, technical and collaborative excellence, while supporting Tonkin's multidisciplinary approach that ensures our clients receive the best solutions.

The Opportunity
We are seeking a
Civil Engineer
to join our Sydney team of around 40 professionals, based in our CBD office - just a 2-minute stroll from the Sydney Metro Gadigal Station and well-connected by multiple transport options. This role provides an opportunity to join our high performing team and work with other Engineers including Senior and Principal Engineers who are leaders in their areas of expertise.

You Will Be Responsible For

• Design and documentation of civil engineering for small to medium sized projects including both greenfield and brownfield developments, building civil, and active transport and roads projects.
• Civil site re-grading design, road design, stormwater & overland flow management system, bulk earthworks, WSUD and water quantity across a broad spectrum of projects.
• Coordination with Tonkin's interdisciplinary team Australia-wide and architects, external consultants, contractors, and clients.
• Escalating critical or complex design issues to senior/principal engineers and project managers.
• Assist in scoping for proposals and variations.
• Complying with our quality, WHS and other systems.

You Will Be Working Towards (or Have Already Commenced)

• Attending and participating in design coordination meetings
• Design and documentation of civil and stormwater engineering elements
• Identifying and assessing design risks and communicating these to senior engineers
• Collaborating and working well within a team as well as the drive to grow your career

About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess:

• 4-6 years of professional experience with demonstrated civil design experience within urban development and /or built environment engineering.
• Working towards CPEng and NER
• Experience in delivering civil projects from concept to detailed design to construction
• Demonstrated skills in 12d modeling for both civil and stormwater aspects of projects
• Design capabilities, AutoCAD, Vehicle Tracking, Drains and MUSIC.
• Familiarity with Austroads, Australian Standards, Council Development Control Plans, DA consent conditions.
• Experience working and coordinating with architects, landscape architects, project managers, contractors, Authorities and clients.
• Experience coordinating with internal project design resources.
• Ideally exposed and/or familiar with Tuflow and/or 2D surface modelling.

This is the ideal position for someone who is committed and passionate about furthering their career and would like to join a high performing team who are recognised for technical excellence, finding creative and progressive ways to deliver value for our clients, and putting a value based human touch into crafting solutions that have wide reaching impact.

We offer all staff truly flexible work arrangements, access to a broad range of technical and non-technical development opportunities (including leadership development training and personal coaching for our internal leaders), a wellness allowance, monthly wellness challenges aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, fresh fruit in our office and access to an EAP which provides an extensive range of resources including access to counselling, legal and financial advice.

Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That's Tonkin.
For this role, you must have the right to live and work permanently in this location.

Tonkin will only consider applications submitted directly by candidates. We will not accept or consider any applications from recruiters or recruitment agencies for this position unless requested .