Senior Civil Designer – Team Leader

Our established and growing Community Development Civil team in Maroochydore is seeking to appoint a Senior Civil Designer | Team Leader in a full-time permanent role. Stantec are currently delivering a variety of commercial, land development, urban infrastructure projects. This role includes project design and delivery across a range of projects and within the land subdivision sector. Projects range from early concept design and master planning through to detailed design and construction documentation.

The role would suit someone with mainly urban and land development experience from civil engineering consultancy. The successful candidate will be provided with an opportunity to develop professionally and personally and forge a rewarding career path in a successful consultancy working on well-known projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Technical design and documentation utilizing 12D and AutoCAD as primary packages.
• Design collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, designers and drafters.
• Be responsible for project designs dependent on experience and complexity.
• Participate in meetings with clients and other consultants.
• Support the Group Leader with monitoring and reporting on the performance of the group.
• Work with partner Team Leaders (TLs) in other regions & Business Centres (BC) across the nation to drive collaboration and work sharing across the BC.
• Ensure allocated projects and proposals are planned, programmed and appropriately managed to meet or exceed client expectations.
• Coordinate resource and technical development requirements with Practice Leaders, Technical Discipline Leaders and other Team Leaders based both locally and in other Australian Offices.
• Develop the team’s skills and experience through appropriate training development, mentoring and guidance.
• Adhere to professional standards, ethics and Stantec quality procedures.

To be successful for this role you will need:

• Good technical design background in aspects of civil design including bulk earthworks, roadworks, stormwater, sewer and water network design within reference to Australian Standards and local authority standards.
• Experience in design and documentation platforms including 12D and AutoCAD.
• Experience in stormwater management is desirable.
• A good understanding of local Authority application processes.
• Growing experience in managing teams with management duties.
• A desire to increase broad range of skills covering project delivery, technical business development and people management.
• Interpersonal skills to develop and maintain positive relationships with colleagues and clients (internal & external).

What we offer:

• Genuine Flexible Working Arrangements - Including work from home opportunities, provision for school term contracts, job sharing and part time employment.
• Option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave.
• Learning and Talent Development Programs - Including Global programmes, online learning and on-the-job learning.
• Professional Memberships, Salary Continuance Insurance (SCI), Service Recognition Awards.
• Mental Health, Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Programs.

Stantec is serious about healthy work-life balance, diversity, inclusion & equity, indigenous relations, innovation, community engagement, corporate sustainability, and social wellbeing. We have employee groups for women, LGBTQI, neurodiversity, and more! Our employees play sport, fundraise, volunteer, learn, and have fun together. We are committed to reconciliation and to building respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We’re better together when different perspectives are welcomed and valued, and we’re committed to a workplace where everyone can belong and thrive.