Civil Engineer

About Us
WGA is an Australian and New Zealand company like no other - we are owned by our employees, loved by our long-term clients and have deep roots in our communities. With a team of over 690 people, WGA provides a rich, diverse, and empowered workplace, and offers you a chance to work alongside some of the best in the business.

WGA offers an outstanding working environment that fosters and supports mutual learning, respect, dignity, cultural openness, and an appreciation of differing perspectives and backgrounds. We strive to offer inspiring career paths and a selection of fantastic employee benefits including exceptional parental leave options, flexible hours and work from home capability and learning and development programs tailored to you.

We empower our engineers and designers to think outside the square and dare to be different in their delivery of tailored design engineering solutions across the Buildings, Transport, Water Infrastructure, Urban Development, Ports and Marine, Energy, Defence and Resources sectors.

About Our Approach
We focus upon the core philosophy of delivering excellent engineering solutions for our valued Clients which allows us to create exceptional, long-term opportunities for our personnel. Our unique style of project delivery ensures that our people don't have to choose between maintaining hands on Engineering Design and corporate career options, they can have both

About Our Role
Continuation of the exciting expansion into Newcastle and the implementation of our long-term strategy has created an opportunity for an experienced Civil Engineer to assist in the development of a Civil capability in New South Wales. With the appointment of an accomplished Principal Civil Engineer to provide project, client and personnel leadership, support and mentoring there are no shortage of career development opportunities.

There is a need for a technically strong engineer that can work across several sectors to develop designs. A desired candidate would have experience within the industrial and resources sector, water supply, wastewater supply, engineering.

As part of a growing team, you will be working with engineers at different experience levels and disciplines. We have a culture of training and mentoring within WGA the role would include the mentoring of more junior staff and we would also provide the opportunity for the mentoring by technical leaders within our teams.

About You
- Ability to communicate with internal stakeholders including our exceptional Civil and Water teams around Australia and New Zealand

• Appropriate Tertiary Qualifications in Civil/Structural Engineering
• Multiple years of post-graduate Consultancy experience on one or more of the following:
• Industrial/resources infrastructure
• Water and Wastewater design
• Major bulk earthworks design
• Stormwater management
• Roads and Carparks
• Local Government Infrastructure
• Desire to expand your capacity to coordinate with external Clients
• Ability to mentor and develop Graduate Engineers and Designers, further expanding our team capabilities
• CPEng accreditation ideal

About Working With Us
At WGA we believe a diverse workplace fosters unique and progressive ideas and drives our culture of learning and sharing knowledge. We encourage all to apply because whatever your background you can progress your career and enjoy the benefits that only a privately owned organisation can offer.

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