• Job Description

  Req#: req14929

  Principal Civil Engineer – Roads and Highways

  Our Infrastructure work is at the heart of our business. Developing and implementing solutions to complex problems, our team is helping to shape the world we live in across the Asia Pacific. We offer the opportunity to build a career path within a fascinating industry, in a business line that offers variety, challenge and tremendous growth potential.

  Our Victorian Civil team specialises in the design of roads, rail, bridges, stormwater, and general civil engineering projects. This is a skilled, high performing team that works on a wide variety of projects in the (roads and airports), Power, Water and Industrial, and provides civil expertise around stormwater drainage, earthworks and road/pavement design. Some of the key recent projects the team have been delivering on are: Fulham solar farm, Melbourne Airport's Third Runway and the Western Treatment Plant Upgrade.

  The opportunity

  Our established civil team is growing and looking for an experienced Principal/ Technical Director Civil Engineer to join our team.

  This varied role will see you:-

  • Providing technical leadership in the area of roads and highways design, helping our people to deliver efficient, safe and innovative solutions to our client’s problems;
  • Design management, Project Management and co-ordination of multidisciplinary roads projects within the roles of Job Manager and/or Project Director;
  • Verification of roads and highways projects against current Australian standards and best practice guidelines including Austroads and the VicRoads supplements;
  • Developing a culture of outstanding delivery within the team including the development of work flow processes to take a design from feasibility to detailed design;
  • Providing coaching an mentoring to our young enthusiastic team members with respect to your technical area of expertise as well as project planning and execution;
  • Business development activities from the early identification of opportunities through to their active pursuit and securing of projects with our clients and industry partners;
  • Participation within the transport leadership group to help define and shape our strategy to respond to the needs of the market;

  If you have a passion for helping people develop their careers and are keen to advance your own business management and leadership skills, then this opportunity could also lead to a Team Leadership position.

  About you

  You’ll be a qualified Professional Engineer (CPEng) or Engineering Technologist with Engineers Australia (or equivalent Professional Society), with your civil engineering experience coming from a consulting environment. With a particular focus on roads and highways projects, you will have a good knowledge of VicRoads and Austroads guidelines. You are a values driven person who enjoys sharing the successes of your colleagues and delivering excellence for your clients.

  Working amongst a group of highly motivated professionals, you will step into an open and supportive culture that values the skills that you can contribute to the group. We will provide you with a wide range of technical and leadership challenges that will continue to grow your skills and knowledge.

  What We Offer:

  A career with Beca will provide you with:

  Flexibility & Wellbeing: We recognise that achieving a work-life balance is unique to everyone. Enjoy flexible working options to manage your personal and family priorities, along with dedicated leave for wellbeing and community engagement.

  Belonging & Ownership: Join a diverse and inclusive team where collaboration and creativity thrive, and you can bring your whole self to work. You may also have the chance to take advantage of our unique shareholder opportunities, sharing in our collective success.

  Parental Leave: Take time for what matters most with up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, inclusive of all genders.

  Career Growth & Development: Your growth is our priority! Benefit from continuous learning and professional development through our company training programmes and support for professional accreditation, including pathways to Chartership with Engineers Australia. Work alongside industry leaders and gain hands-on experience to unlock your career potential.

  Beca prides itself on supporting a diverse and inclusive culture – open to inputs from creative people of all genders, ethnicity, identity, thought and experiences.

  Who is Beca?

  Beca is one of the Asia-Pacific region's largest employee-owned professional services consultancies. Our team of over 4000 professionals is diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives and expertise to every client and challenge, creating resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights.

  ‘Creative people together transforming our world’ is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose – to make everyday better. Our four values – partnership, tenacity, enjoyment and care – sit at the heart of everything we do, reflecting how we work every day with each other and our clients.

  At Beca we make everyday better for our clients, our people and our community and your involvement makes it possible. Our size and agility mean you’re not just on the fringes; you’re making a visible difference, partnering to develop and deliver solutions from the ground up.

  As a people-focused business, we understand that work-life balance means a lot of different things to different people and that it’s not always easy juggling work with everything else life throws at us. This is why we are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for all opportunities in the Beca team.

  Ready to make the move? / Apply now

  If you want to make every day better, apply online today! If you have any questions, you can find out more about our people and projects by visiting www.beca.com

• About the company

  Beca Group Limited is one of the largest employee-owned professional services consultancy firms in the Asia-Pacific.

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