WSP is a globally-recognised professional services firm employing 50,000 people. At WSP, our people are working together with our clients to solve some of our planet’s toughest challenges. With our Future Ready approach, we see the future more clearly and challenge our teams across the world to advise and design for this future as well as today. Our Future Ready program is at the heart of our values and enables us to deliver innovative solutions, today and every day.

The opportunity:

Our Planning and Mobility team is a group of talented, passionate, and friendly professionals who provide integrated transport advisory and planning services to government and private clients. We operate as part of an integrated national team to deliver projects in Queensland and throughout Australia and internationally. WSP has offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sunshine Coast and Sydney. We routinely work with colleagues from interstate and contribute to their projects. Our Australian team collaborates with WSP’s world-leading international experts in every continent of the world to ensure our projects learn from international best-practice.

In QLD, we are looking for a Senior Traffic Engineer / Traffic Engineer to join our growing Queensland Planning and Mobility Business in our Brisbane or Sunshine Coast offices. Both offices are multi-disciplinary, have a supportive team culture and provide a good work-life balance with flexible working arrangements.

Your new colleagues:

We promote a highly connected team culture and positive working environment. We strive to be a diverse, supportive team aiming to be the best we can be, by encouraging you to bring your whole self to work. We welcome to the table all perspectives, strengths, skills, creeds, and genders because we know that diverse ideas breed extraordinary results.

Your new colleagues understand the need for on-the-job training, mentoring and leadership to help bring out the best in you.

What we will love about you:

This is an opportunity for you to join a supportive, high performing team as a Senior Traffic Engineer or Traffic Engineer.

We are looking for a technical candidate with a passion for delivering high quality traffic engineering willing to take the lead and deliver for both internal and external clients. You are a team player with a willingness to both learn and to mentor and develop our emerging professionals. The role has significant scope to grow and develop with the business.

To be successful in this role you will bring:

• Technical excellence and a commitment to delivering successful projects for a broad range of clients spanning state, federal and local government and private developers and transport operators
• Contributions to a culture of learning and development in traffic and transport planning
• A commitment to build your industry profile with our support and develop client and colleague relationships
• A demonstrated understanding of good practice in traffic engineering and applicable guidelines and tools
• Demonstrated skill in report writing and presentation of complex concepts and data in easily-understood, graphical formats suited to the intended reader.
• Project Management capability or a commitment to developing project management skills
• Bachelor's Degree (Civil Engineering) or equivalent
• RPEQ or working towards
• 3 to 10 years’ experience
• Holding experience in TIAs, crash analysis, speed reviews, road safety assessments and strategic design
• Experienced in SIDRA modelling
• An understanding of modelling concepts (AIMSUN, VISSIM, VISSUM, EMME)
• An interest in client development, engagement, and proposal writing
• A passion to develop the capability of those around you.

What we will offer you:

At WSP we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many personal and professional development opportunities that are aimed at helping you deliver your best self to the role whilst managing your personal life in balance. We have been recognised for the second consecutive year as a Great Place to Work® with year-on-year increases in employee engagement.

Some of the many benefits we offer our employees include:

• Opportunity to work on a wide range of multi-modal projects including major infrastructure projects (road, rail, and bus), to new mobility, place-making, traffic impact assessments and traffic management.
• Variety in projects across disciplines, locations, complexity and project teams
• Interstate opportunities
• Flexible working hours and working from home
• Parental leave & purchased additional annual leave
• Corporate employee discounts and offers
• Salary continuance insurance
• Wellness at work & social club
• Workplace giving /volunteering
• Employee reward & recognition program
• Professional and technical development opportunities
• Global mobility

About us:

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,300 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions, and future ready engineering projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. wsp.com/au

WSP supports a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.