Senior Coordinator Engineering Design

Blacktown City is a growing and thriving city, located halfway between Sydney City and the Blue Mountains. With 450,000 residents, we are the largest and most diverse city in NSW, spread across 54 suburbs. Blacktown City is vibrant, dynamic and multicultural, home to a large First Nations community and people from more than 180 different birthplaces and languages.

With $24.8 billion regional economy, Blacktown City is also home to 35,000 businesses. Working at Blacktown City Council provides widespread, exciting professional opportunities. Our Council is leading the transformation of Blacktown City and Western Sydney. We are implementing a vision for a modern city, full of opportunity for our residents and businesses.

Our Council is led by highly skilled and experienced professionals, working with talented and passionate teams across a diverse range of business units. We are delivering high quality, customer-focused services, experiences, and facilities, and leading a program of strategic planning, activity and investment.

Blacktown City Council strives to be an inclusive workplace for all people. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, the LGBTIQ+ community, veterans and people with disabilities.

About The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Coordinator Engineering Design (S7.11) to join the Asset Design team on a permanent, full-time basis.

This role is responsible for leading a team to create a liveable, safe and sustainable Blacktown City through the design of stormwater infrastructure, catchment management, and coordination of stormwater and road design across the North West Growth Area.

Key Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Leading the S7.11 Stormwater Design team whilst ensuring all civil stormwater designs are completed in accordance with professional engineering standards, are of high quality that meet Council's requirements, and addressing multiple objectives
• Coordinating and preparing technical stormwater engineering policy documents, research, strategic plans and providing technical expertise to internal and external stakeholders
• Managing the overall team financial budgets
• Coordinating S7.11 developer contributions stormwater management designs with road infrastructure.

This is a unique opportunity for a professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is passionate about creating infrastructure that supports a thriving, sustainable city

Essential
Qualifications and experience

• Degree in civil engineering
• At least 8 years post-qualification experience in the survey, investigation and design of stormwater management infrastructure and cost estimates
• Engineers Australia Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) qualification and National Engineering Registration (NER)
• In-depth demonstrated experience in leading and managing design teams to ensure effective and timely delivery of program activities
• Demonstrated experience in GIS packages, computer literacy in Microsoft Office applications and extensive experience in AutoCAD, 12D and water engineering applications such as DRAINS, HEC-RAS, XP-RAFTS, TUFLOW and MUSIC
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to determine and adapt management approaches for a broad range of stormwater, floodplain and road infrastructure management situations
• Demonstrated commitment to customer service
• Knowledge of applicable legislation and regulations
• Experience in managing financial budgets with inclusion of forecasting
• Current class C driver's licence.

Desirable

• Demonstrated experience in coordinating stormwater management and transport infrastructure with developer works
• Demonstrated experience in preparing precinct scale stormwater strategies, contribution plans, and associated planning instruments and policies
• Experience in CM9, Technology One and CIA.

Remuneration And Benefits
The salary and conditions of employment are in accordance with Blacktown City Council's Enterprise Agreement.

• Entry level for this position starts at $2,735.37 per week
• 35-hour working week
• Leaseback vehicle
• Opportunity to participate in Council's flextime arrangement
• Employee benefits such as leave entitlements (where applicable), 12% employer contribution payable to your nominated superannuation fund, Fitness Passport, gym membership discounts, and social clubs.

Our commitment to safety
Blacktown City Council is committed to safety. We have introduced alcohol and other drug testing at the pre-employment phase, and via a series of random and cause testing.

We are a child safe organisation that supports and promotes the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of children.

Position Description
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• Review the questions and decide on your responses before commencing your application.

Best of luck.

Closing date: Friday 29 August 2025, 11.59 pm
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