Senior Engineer or Associate Engineer – Bridges – Perth
Lead bridge design in WA—while building your leadership in delivery and client outcomes.
WSP is growing our Bridges team in Perth. This role suits a bridge/transport structures engineer who enjoys solving complex design challenges, guiding quality outcomes, and building trusted client relationships—with a clear pathway to technical and delivery leadership.
You’ll work with our Bridges, Aviation and Roads team on major WA transport infrastructure—partnering with multidisciplinary specialists locally and drawing on WSP’s national and global expertise when it adds value.
Role snapshot
- Location: Perth CBD (flexible working available)
- Discipline: Bridges and transport structures (roads/rail)
- Level: Senior / Associate—focused on delivery leadership and technical excellence
- Delivery: design leadership, reviews, mentoring and governance support
Registration: Chartered/registered status (or pathway) is highly regarded
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The role
As a Senior Engineer or Associate Engineer – Bridges, you will lead the design and delivery of bridge and transport-structure solutions across WA. You’ll take ownership of technical quality for your packages, contribute to reviews and governance, and work directly with clients and stakeholders to shape scope, solve challenges, and deliver trusted outcomes.
Success in this role means consistently high technical quality, strong risk awareness, and designs that are safe, sustainable, constructible and aligned to client objectives—from concept through to detailed design.
Based in our Perth CBD office, you’ll collaborate with industry-leading engineers in a supportive, high-performing team culture—while continuing to grow your leadership and technical depth.
What you’ll do
- Lead bridge and transport-structure design from concept to detailed design, including options assessment and design development
- Support technical governance: undertake and contribute to design checks, reviews and coordinated model/drawing/report outputs
- Manage delivery for your work packages—scope, programme, budget, risk and coordination with the broader project team
- Be a trusted client partner—support technical discussions, resolve issues early and identify opportunities to add value
- Contribute to bids and proposals—technical inputs, estimates and delivery approaches
- Coach and support engineers, building capability and a culture of strong engineering judgement and ethical practice
- Champion HSEQ—embed safety in design and ensure compliance with WSP QHSE systems and project requirements
- Drive digital delivery and innovation—effective use of 3D modelling, model coordination and modern workflows
Contribute to knowledge sharing through internal networks, technical development and mentoring
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What you’ll bring
Must have
- Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or equivalent)
- Consulting experience delivering bridge/transport-structure projects
- Typically 9–15 years’ experience across structural and bridge design, ideally with WA transport clients
- Proven technical delivery capability—design development, coordination and design review
- Strong knowledge of Australian Standards and WA client requirements (Main Roads WA, PTA) for bridge design
- Experience with digital delivery and 3D structural modelling workflows (model review, coordination, model-based outputs)
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills (clients, reviewers, contractors and internal teams)
- Commitment to safety in design, ethics, quality and continuous improvement
Nice to have
- Chartered status (e.g., CPEng or equivalent) and/or registration (or a clear pathway to achieve it)
- Experience contributing to bids, frameworks or key-client accounts in the transport sector
- Construction-phase support and design-for-constructability experience on bridge packages
Why WSP
- Work on high-profile WA transport projects with real community impact
- Join a well-established, growing Perth Transport team with strong local clients
- Access national and global technical specialists to support complex challenges
- Flexible working arrangements and clear technical leadership pathways
A collaborative culture that invests in mentoring, development and wellbeing
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At WSP, we value our people and our reputation. We are locally dedicated with international scale, future‑focused, collaborative and empowering—and we’re looking for individuals who share those values.
Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 83,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
An employee Share Purchase Plan is available to all our permanent employees who wish to become owners and vested partners in WSP’s collective success. To find out more about our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Employee Benefits page.
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