Senior Geotechnical Engineer - Sydney or Newcastle

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WSP Australia is seeking an experienced Senior Geotechnical Engineer to join the Geotechnical & Tunnels team in Sydney or Newcastle. You’ll lead geotechnical investigations and design across energy transition, mining and transport, contribute to dam surveillance and safety management, and support bids from proposal through fieldwork to reporting. The role prizes technical excellence, innovation, and a strong safety culture, with flexible work options and clear paths for career development and an employee share purchase plan. To apply, tailor your CV and cover letter to show local geotechnical or engineering geology experience, field investigations, dam and tailings work, client relations, and demonstrated project delivery with quantified outcomes and a teamwork mindset.

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.

WSP is looking for experienced Geotechnical Engineers to join our renowned Geotechnical & Tunnels team, based in our Sydney or Newcastle offices!

If you are looking for lifestyle, work life balance, flexible working conditions, whilst working for one of the biggest and best engineering consultancies in the world, then this is the role for you!

This role will see you enhance your capabilities and the reputation of WSP’s Geotechnical & Tunnels team and will see you collaborate with talented professionals, working on iconic projects to drive future ready outcomes that will benefit clients and communities.

Leveraging more than 150 years of experience, our industry-leading Geotechnical and Tunnels team shares a common passion for technical excellence and innovation.

Our unique, specialised and future ready skills help address the ever-evolving challenges that earth, environment, and energy present to our clients and communities - At WSP you’ll find the scale and reach you need to do the kind of work the world needs – and the culture and people that make it the best work of your life.

Geotechnical & Tunnels

Our Geotechnical and Tunnels team is driven by a passion for technical excellence and innovation.

By joining our team, you will be working both collaboratively with our Principal and Executive Engineers, as well as providing technical advice to our diverse client portfolio, over the full asset life cycle. Our works typically includes site investigations, feasibility studies, design and analyses, construction support, and dam operation, as well as the development of dam safety management systems, including dam surveillance, safety reviews and risk assessments.

What you’ll do:

You will be working alongside other technical experts on both bidding and delivering successful projects. Your role will also be well supported across our business, with skilled resources and exposure in other sections. You will have the opportunity to:

• Foster and maintain relationships from proposal preparation to managing financial and technical aspect of delivering small to large scale projects
• Undertake and manage geotechnical investigation and design projects from proposal preparation to fieldwork, analysis and reporting
• Support the delivery of dam surveillance, safety inspections, risk assessments, and development of safety management systems
• Use your interpretation and design skills to contribute to geotechnical projects predominantly in the energy transition, mining industry and transport industry
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary team throughout project delivery
• Drive business development through successful delivery of your projects
• Promote a safe working culture by identifying and eliminating safety hazards 

About You

WSP encourages and supports ongoing personal and professional development. To be successful in these positions it is anticipated that you will possess the following qualifications / requirements:

• A Civil/Geotechnical Engineering or Engineering Geology degree - Post graduate qualifications in a geotechnical related field will be considered favourably
• Must have experience in geotechnical engineering/engineering geology (local experience preferred)
• Experience and passion for tailings storage facility and water dam management
• A successful track record in undertaking and managing field investigations for small to large size geotechnical projects
• Track record of promoting innovation in the field of geotechnical engineering to create value for clients and their projects
• Demonstrated experience in the preparation / review of written technical reports and client communications
• Demonstrated experience in geotechnical design including rock/soil/structure interaction 
• A strong work ethic and ability to work autonomously and in a team environment
• Ability to take responsibility for geotechnical design delivery in multidisciplinary environment
• Natural talent in promoting a safe working culture by identifying and eliminating safety hazards

In addition, you will bring the following skills and attributes:

• Natural connector
• Problem solver with a powerful team spirit
• Open
• Curious
• Passionate
• Adaptable
• Someone ready to do the kind of work the world needs

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 73,000 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.