Senior/ Associate Geo-Environmental Engineer

Overview

In this hybrid Sydney-based role, you lead a geo-environmental team to deliver complex projects across waste, water, and mining sectors. You will shape technical solutions, manage client relationships, and ensure design excellence throughout planning, design, and execution. You’ll mentor junior engineers and drive multidisciplinary collaboration to deliver sustainable infrastructure. This is a chance to influence major projects and advance a culture of innovation and quality. You join a global firm with a strong focus on sustainability and community impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• health and wellbeing programs
• hybrid role with flexibility
• collaborative team culture

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver projects in waste management, water infrastructure, mining, and ground engineering
• Develop and implement cutting-edge geo-environmental solutions integrating waste into broader infrastructure
• Prepare and review technical documentation across planning, design, and execution
• Manage client relationships to support delivery and business development
• Ensure technical excellence, quality, and risk management across projects
• Undertake project management to achieve key client outcomes and repeat business
• Mentor and guide junior engineers to foster a collaborative team
• Lead multidisciplinary teams to integrate design elements across disciplines
• Assess subsurface environmental risks, embankments, earthworks, and surface water systems

Key requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in Civil, Geotechnical, or Environmental Engineering
• At least 7 years of relevant industry experience
• Strong detailed design capabilities and experience in producing high-quality documentation
• Technical expertise in waste management, landfills, leachate systems, geosynthetics, and resource recovery
• Ability to design for subsurface risks and complex earthworks
• Proficiency with design software to produce constructible, compliant designs
• Excellent communication to convey complex concepts to diverse stakeholders
• Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams
• Proactive, solutions-focused mindset with commitment to sustainability and innovation
• Mentoring experience and solid project delivery decisions

• strong communication
• team leadership
• client relationship management
• landfill design
• leachate collection and treatment
• geosynthetics

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