Associate Director

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia WSP Full time
  • Opportunity to work on top-tier, landmark projects
  • Senior role within our renowned specialist Building Structures group
  • Competitive salary package
  • Flexible working hours and supportive working from home environment

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow 

WSP Property and Buildings Structures group have a role for an Associate Director – Structures to join our growing team in Melbourne.

Our Property and Buildings team is a world-leading management and technical consultancy operating across all sectors. We are passionate about tackling the complex and sophisticated challenges of the built environment and delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to create accessible, resilient and liveable communities.

Our Building Structures group are a specialist team renowned for their innovation in structural engineering and cutting-edge BIM project execution across high-rise and complex building structures and infrastructure projects, with offices in every major city across Australia. We operate as a highly autonomous and genuinely national team. The ability to grow and develop your career at WSP are unparalleled in the market. We offer the opportunity to contribute to local and national buildings projects, plus the ability to expand your design skills across other market sectors.

Our recent projects include:

  • Melbourne T2 Expansion
  • Frankston Hospital Redevelopment
  • Twelve Apostles Visitor Centre
  • New Adelaide Women’s and Children's Hospital

Our Changemakers enjoy:

  • Flexible working hours and a hybrid work environment
  • A social, collaborative, and inclusive culture with a calendar full of social and networking events
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program and to corporate health and travel discounts
  • 12 weeks parental leave
  • Options for global mobility and purchased additional leave
  • And much more.

What you’ll do

As an Associate Director you will:

  • Operate in a market-facing and design delivery focused role;
  • Handle ongoing communication and highly effective professional relationships with local clients;
  • Proactively determine, manage, monitor and control scope of works;
  • Project lead work across the design, delivery and tender phases for multi-year/packaged work for turnkey projects;
  • Ensure timely and quality of delivery for project and structural engineering work in support of relevant technical, commercial and regulatory standards – and in alignment with schedules and budgets;
  • Manage effective stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally;
  • Provide sound technical/delivery guidance for the team;
  • Champion own continual professional development and mentor, train and develop the careers of junior engineers;
  • Partner with internal stakeholders and a collaborative, national team in a multidisciplinary engineering setting.

About you

The successful candidate we are looking for will have:

  • Proven experience in providing key technical expertise across a broad range of high profile projects as the project leader;
  • Expert knowledge in the application of modelling software and/or analytics techniques and workflows on projects
  • A proven track record in leading large sized multidiscipline projects;
  • Typically 12 to 15+ years’ industry experience;
  • Well-developed client facing, business development and account/relationship management skills;
  • The ability to lead, train and mentor junior engineers across technical and project delivery aspects.

About WSP

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 6,000 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready™ projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LQBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.



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