Associate Director - Structures

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Our WSP Property and Buildings group have an exciting role for an Associate Director to Director-level individual to join our growing team in Sydney.

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.

Our recent projects span across a range of different sectors including but not limited to high-rise developments, schools, infrastructure, the list goes on. Some of our recent projects include:

• City Tattersalls Club Redevelopment
• Sydney Fish Market
• Sydney Harbourside
• Shellharbour Hospital
• 2 Chifley Square

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 civil 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.
• Support / lead in proposal preparation

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 within the Property & Buildings sector on large or complex projects
• Well versed in effectively delivering multiple, concurrent projects ranging in scale and sector, e.g. commercial, residential, mixed-use, education, health, defence;
• Technical expertise in all-round structural engineering design including post-tensioned concrete;
• 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.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

An employee Share Purchase Plan is available to all our permanent employees who wish to become owners and vested partners in WSP’s collective success. To find out more about our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Employee Benefits page.

With us, you can. Apply today.

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