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Your impact

Our Water Infrastructure team are passionate about transforming South Australia's water future through creative engineering solutions that serve communities, protect resources, and enhance liveability.

Due to a secure pipeline of work, we’re looking for a Principal Civil Engineer/ Technical Lead in Adelaide to lead complex projects that will shape Australia's water or wastewater landscape for decades to come. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact through planning, design, project delivery leadership, and business development while working closely with major water authorities across South Australia, Australia and New Zealand.

As a Principal Civil Engineer, you'll provide expert consultancy and detailed design engineering services for our clients while providing technical leadership for successful project delivery and contributing to winning new work. You'll collaborate with design teams and other technical leaders, commercial, project management to create opportunities for Jacobs across our extensive engineering services panel work.

By joining our team you’ll not only get to work on some of ANZ’s most interesting projects, you’ll also enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, workplace flexibility that respects your life beyond work and a culture that invests in your continued professional development.

What You’ll Do:





You will bring extensive experience designing major water/ wastewater infrastructure projects including large diameter or reticulation pipelines, treatment plants or pump stations. We are seeking personnel with pure design or Design and Construct project experience. You balance technical innovation with practical implementation, ensuring designs are both excellent and buildable whilst maintaining commercial awareness throughout project delivery.

Here's what you'll need

What We Require:

- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent
- Chartered Engineer (CPEng) or equivalent (Ceng or PE)
- Around 15+ years experience in water or wastewater civil engineering.
- Strong background in water industry consultancy, Civil Design, construction or delivery
- Proven track record of technical leadership for successful delivery of water infrastructure projects.
- Comprehensive knowledge of safety in design and Australian water industry standards.
- Proven ability to coordinate multiple engineering or adjacent disciplines across geographic locations
- Ability to mentor early or mid career professionals

Flexibility

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

We're open to considering candidates who need to work around school drop-offs/pick-ups or those interested in part-time arrangements - we understand the importance of balancing work commitments with family responsibilities.

📌 Principal Civil Engineer, Water / Wastewater Infrastructure (Adelaide)
🏢 Jacobs Group (Australia
📍 Adelaide