Senior Water Designer - Sydney

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

About our Senior Civil Designer position:

Tonkin is now seeking candidates with suitable experience to join our Design and Drafting team and apply their skills in the design and detailing of all aspects of our infrastructure projects.

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. Joining our Design and Drafting Team. As an experienced Civil Designer, you will be an integral part of a team of highly skilled specialists who collectively perform the following:

• Primarily supporting our NSW and QLD Water teams, you will also have the opportunity to work on a variety of infrastructure projects. There will also be opportunity to work with our wider Transport, Local Government, Development and Waste Management teams.
• Apply proficiency in modelling and drafting using AutoCAD, 12d and/or Civil 3D
• Work collaboratively with Engineers to design and draft for a wide range of infrastructure projects

About you

Together with your exemplary teamwork, stakeholder management, written and verbal communication skills; to be successful in this role you will ideally possess some or all of the following:

• Minimum 5 years experience utilising 12D and/or Civil3D and AutoCAD
• Minimum 5 years design experience in general civil design in one or more of the following areas; Water and Wastewater infrastructure, Road Reconstruction, Road Design, Public Realm Design, Land Division Design and Stormwater Design
• Experience in Water and Sewerage design, including pipelines and pump stations
• Working knowledge of Austroads and relevant Australian Standards
• Experience in design for State Government road authorities
• Experience in landfill design, bulk earthworks design or tailings design
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an eye for detail and a strong focus on the production of quality outputs

The position represents opportunity for someone with experience in a similar position who is keen to grow their expertise and develop their career even further by working on a variety of projects in a leading consultancy firm.

This is the ideal position for someone who is driven to master their craft in modelling and design software, is committed to providing quality design solutions , and is excited about joining a high performing team who are recognised for technical excellence, finding creative and progressive ways to deliver value for our clients, and putting a values based human touch into developing solutions that have wide reaching and critical impact.

The Tonkin difference

We know people perform at their best when they enjoy coming to work.

At Tonkin we offer you the opportunity to work with leading industry experts in a genuinely supportive and caring environment. We provide flexibility because we know work-life balance is key. Our high-performing teams are underpinned by trust; empowering you to build your skills, progress your career quickly and work the way that is best for you.

Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That’s Tonkin.

If you would like to join a high performing team who are nationally recognised for technical excellence, finding creative and progressive ways to deliver value for our clients, and putting a human touch into crafting engineering solutions, we look forward to hearing from you.

Take your career to the next level and click ‘Apply now’ to join Tonkin!

For this role, you must have the right to live and work permanently in this location.