371⁄2-hour week, no more 6.30am pre-starts — run your own dayGenuine leadership pathway: build and lead a team within years55 years strong, employee-owned — real stability, a real say Civil Construction Engineer (Superintendent / CA) – Leadership Pathway
About our client
Our client is a Brisbane engineering consultancy with 55 years behind them and no plans to slow down. Employee-owned, which means the people doing the work also have a stake in how it's done — not a distant head office calling the shots. They've built a genuine reputation across civil and structural work over more than five decades, and they're now investing in something new: a dedicated construction management capability, built from the ground up.
About the role
This is a build-it-yourself chance, and it's genuinely a step up rather than a sideways move. You'll be the first person into a newly forming construction management team, taking on the superintendent role across subdivision and urban development sites — and over the next couple of years, if you're up for it, growing into the person who leads that team. This isn't a site engineer role sitting inside a contractor. You'll be on the client side, running stage inspections largely unsupervised — stormwater, reinforcement, road proof rolls, water and sewer pre-sales — while owning the superintendent function: assessing progress claims, variation claims and extensions of time, and reviewing QA data post-construction. There's experienced backup from the senior contracts team while you build out the more complex dispute-management side, but the day-to-day inspection and assessment work is yours to run. No more 6.30am pre-starts as standard. It's a 371⁄2 hour week, and you'll manage your own day across your sites.




What you'll be doing
Running construction and stage inspections across urban development and subdivision sites, largely unsupervised
Acting as superintendent: assessing progress claims, variation claims and extensions of time
Reviewing QA data post-construction and liaising with councils and water authorities through delivery
Working closely with the contracts team to build your commercial and dispute-management skills
Helping shape a construction team that will grow under your lead over the next few years
Skills and experience
Bachelor-qualified civil engineer
Ideal: 3–5 years in a construction supervision or contract administration (superintendent) role within an engineering consultancy, on urban development or subdivision projects
Also considered: more extensive experience (5+ years) as a project engineer or contracts-side lead with a contractor, where you've moved beyond site supervision into managing the commercial and contractual side of delivery
Also considered: development engineers currently inside a SEQ council team, ready to trade the bureaucracy for a more influential, hands‐on consulting role
Comfortable assessing progress claims, variations and extensions of time — not just inspecting works
Working knowledge of SEQ local council development regulations
What's in it for you
A genuine leadership pathway — this role is designed to grow into managing a construction team within a few years
371⁄2 hour week, no standard 6.30am pre-starts, and control over your own schedule across sites
The backing of an established, employee-owned consultancy with 55 years of runway behind it
The chance to build something — this team doesn't exist yet, and you'd be shaping it
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📌 Civil Construction Engineer (Superintendent / Ca) (Queensland)
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