Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That’s Tonkin.
Description
When you join us at Tonkin, you become part of a team who thrive on delivering exceptional outcomes that put people and our communities first. We may currently be a small player in the QLD market, but our team is big on talent, we are delivering big projects, and we have big growth aspirations to match!
Founded in 1955, Tonkin is on a strong, sustained growth journey, with a creative and progressive national team working at nine offices across Australia. Proudly employee-owned, we provide imaginative and dependable engineering to our clients in the public and private sectors. With expertise that is characterised by diversity and industry excellence, Tonkin prides itself on being a national leader in the Water Industry inspired by the exceptional success of our South Australian water business.
Tonkin is now seeking suitably experienced candidates to join our East Coast Water team and apply their skills in the design and detailing of all aspects of our infrastructure projects for water utilities.
You will be joining a close-knit team that prides itself on professional, technical and collaborative excellence, while supporting Tonkin’s multidisciplinary approach that ensures our clients receive the best solutions.
About our Senior Water Engineer role
Joining our Water team as an experienced Senior Water Engineer, you will play an integral part in a team of highly skilled specialists who collectively develop water and wastewater infrastructure design solutions to our clients most complex problems.
Together with your exemplary teamwork, stakeholder management, and written and verbal communication skills, you will ideally possess some or all of the following to be successful in this role:
- Experience working in the Australian market, preferably 7+ years.
- Degree qualification in Civil or Mechanical Engineering or associated field.
- Strong working knowledge of current statutory requirements, and engineering and contract standards applicable in Queensland (additional knowledge in other states would also be beneficial).
- Chartered Engineering Status (CPEng) or the ability to obtain it within 12 months.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work with, and lead, a range of engineering professionals in a team environment.
- Ability to successfully build and maintain positive internal relationships.
- Ability to develop external client relationships and key stakeholders and industry networks that may contribute to business growth.
- Demonstrated experience in applying industry standards, e.g. SEQ Code Water standards, WSA etc.
- Demonstrated experience in applying Quality Assurance, Risk Management, Safety in Design and design review processes for our projects.
- Experience in Water Supply and Sewerage design, including pipelines & pump stations. Large trunk infrastructure experience would be beneficial.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an eye for detail and a strong focus on the production of quality outputs.
This is the ideal position for someone who is driven to master their craft, is committed to providing quality design solutions, and is excited about joining a high performing team who are recognised for technical excellence, finding creative and progressive ways to deliver value for our clients, and putting a values based human touch into developing solutions that have a wide reaching and critical impact.
Job location
This role is based at Tonkin’s Brisbane CBD office, though being located in Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast can be accommodated. Projects that you work on may take you all over Queensland, down into New South Wales, or over to South Australia!
The Tonkin difference
We know people perform at their best when they enjoy coming to work.
At Tonkin we offer you the opportunity to work with leading industry experts in a genuinely supportive and caring environment. We provide flexibility because we know work-life balance is key. Our high-performing teams are underpinned by trust; empowering you to build your skills, progress your career quickly and work the way that is best for you.
We offer all staff truly flexible work arrangements, access to a broad range of technical and non-technical development opportunities (including leadership development training and personal coaching for our internal leaders), a wellness allowance, monthly wellness challenges aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, fresh fruit in our office and access to an EAP which provides an extensive range of resources including access to counselling, legal and financial advice.
If you’re looking for an easy role to pump out standard designs on small reticulation water infrastructure projects, then this is not the role for you – we want someone who is comfortable being uncomfortable, can make sense of complexity and ambiguity, and can do it all with a smile on their face! If you are ready or willing to take on this role, then we would love to hear from you.
Take your career to the next level and click ‘Apply to this Job’ to join Tonkin!
For this role, you must have the right to live and work permanently in this location.
Tonkin will only consider applications submitted directly by candidates. We will not accept or consider any applications from recruiters or recruitment agencies for this position unless requested.
