As a Lead Civil Engineer, you’ll take full ownership of complex civil engineering projects, guiding them from concept through to delivery with expert technical leadership. You’ll drive innovative, efficient, and high-quality solutions, inspiring excellence across the team. In this role, you’ll mentor and develop engineers, foster collaboration, and champion a culture that reflects Peritas’ values, ensuring every project delivers lasting impact and exceptional value to clients.

Responsibilities:

Project Leadership & Management

- Provide technical leadership for civil engineering delivery across projects or major work packages.

- Establish design strategy, design criteria, technical assumptions, approval strategy and verification requirements for complex civil projects.

- Lead coordination between engineers, designers, drafters, clients, authorities, contractors and other disciplines to achieve integrated outcomes.

- Review and approve key calculations, models, drawings, reports, specifications, design decisions, departures and technical recommendations.

- Ensure civil engineering outputs are technically sound, buildable, protected, compliant, coordinated and aligned with project objectives.

- Manage technical risk, design change, authority interface issues, service conflicts, staging constraints and engineering quality across project teams.

- Guide and mentor engineers and designers, supporting capability development and consistent technical standards.

- Drive constructability, safety in design, sustainability, operability, maintainability, resilience and value engineering outcomes.

- Represent the civil discipline in technical meetings, design reviews, workshops, authority discussions and client meetings.

- Support project planning by advising on scope, resourcing, deliverables, design effort, technical risk and approval complexity.

- Contribute to the improvement of civil design methodologies, quality systems, technical templates and discipline-specific procedures.

- Represent Peritas in project meetings, site inspections, and client interactions, ensuring clear communication and documented outcomes.

- Liaise with local councils, authorities, and stakeholders to obtain approvals and permits as required.

Design & Technical Expertise

- Deliver high-quality designs,



drawings, and documentation across civil disciplines, including stormwater, earthworks, roadworks, traffic management, water supply, and sewage systems.

- Provide technical guidance and review outputs from junior engineers and designers to ensure accuracy and compliance with standards.

- Investigate engineering problems and coordinate effective solutions with the team.

- Stay current with industry trends, standards, and best practices, applying them to projects.

- Maintain high standards of technical accuracy, quality and attention to detail across deliverables.

Commercial Acumen

- Apply commercial awareness to technical decisions, considering project scope, budget, efficiency and delivery requirements.

- Support effective project planning through realistic assessment of technical effort, risks and resource needs. through rea

- Contribute to project budget planning and cost management, tracking expenditure and identifying potential overruns.

- Implement cost-effective solutions without compromising design quality.

- Support the preparation of invoices, financial reporting, and client billing as required.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

- Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, subcontractors, and regulatory bodies throughout project delivery through reliable technical delivery and responsive communication.

- Engage with clients to understand technical requirements, manage expectations and support successful project outcomes.

- Provide clear updates, address concerns, and manage stakeholder expectations effectively.

- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure integrated, high-performing project outcomes.

Business Development

- Support business development activities through technical input into proposals, bids and client discussions

- Identify opportunities to add value to projects and strengthen client relationships through technical expertise.





Mentorship & Team Development

- Mentor and develop engineers and designers, supporting capability growth through technical expertise, mentoring, collaboration and professional conduct.

- Promote knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of civil engineering processes, standards, and documentation.

- Encourage professional development and succession planning within the civil engineering team.

- Support team performance and contribute positively to team culture and capability development.

Health, Safety, Environment and Quality

- Ensure compliance with internal policies and relevant ISO standards and ensure project document is retained as per HSEQ Management System

- Play a key role in developing and delivering systems or project administration training for employees.

- Participate in HSEQ training, report incidents, and support a culture of safety and quality.

- Follow safety rules, identify and address risks, and promote a safe workplace.

- Investigate accidents, incidents, and near misses, recommending corrective actions to prevent future occurrences.

- Proactively identify and assess potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement measures to ensure safety in design and on site

- Participates in Emergency Preparedness activities e.g. fire evacuations

Innovation

- Participate in discussions on work system improvements, including leveraging technology for information sharing, management, and quality control.

- Actively engage in reviewing work standards and monitoring processes, initiating recommendations for improvement.

- Assist clients to identify sustainable options and implications.

- Bring ideas forward on how we can improve the way we deliver our partner experience.

Experience & Qualifications:

- 10+ years of experience in Civil Engineering

- Strong technical capability in general civil engineering, comprising competency to undertake:

- Stormwater Drainage Systems, Roads and Pavements, Earthworks and Site Grading, Water and Sewer Infrastructure, Utility Services Coordination, Civil Site Layout Planning and Geometry

- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering (or equivalent)

- Member of Engineers Australia

- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)

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