Senior Associate Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Associate at Riddwood, you will manage multiple projects and a team of engineers across our Brisbane office, while balancing delivery, quality, and commercial performance. You'll play a key role in our business, with a focus on team management, client satisfaction, technical consistency, and project profitability. You will gain exposure to recruitment and strategic delivery alignment as you develop toward executive and business-wide leadership. Your duties will include providing technical direction and mentorship to your team, enforcement of Company policies, standards, and being a role model that embodies Riddwood's Core Values of Competence, Care, Accountability and Ambition.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Clients, ensuring clear communication and alignment of project objectives

• Maintain and strengthen existing client relationships to achieve a consistent pipeline of work

• Manage fee proposals, create and allocate project tasks, manage budget estimation and tracking, own kick-off meetings and design briefs

• Approve your team's workload plan and take ownership of delivery

• Project manage the tasks that you or your Team Members are assigned as Task Manager, tracking timesheet hours, remaining budget, and progress against programme with early identification of overruns

• Provide technical direction and mentorship to your team, review designs early, give clear engineering guidance, and remove technical blockers quickly to avoid rework and budget exhaustion

• Collaborate with other Team Managers on progress and issues developing across ongoing projects, flag risks, delays or resource constraints early to maintain delivery standards

• Carry out bi-monthly and 6-monthly performance reviews with your team, providing inputs on technical ability, delivery reliability, and team behaviour

• Enforce Riddwood's policies, uphold standards, and be a role model for your team

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering, recognised by Engineers Australia
• RPEQ plus CPEng highly favoured
• 10+ years' experience in structural or civil engineering, with a strong background in temporary works, construction engineering, or infrastructure delivery from a consulting environment
• Proven track record managing projects and client relationships, with experience leading design teams and coordinating complex work programs
• Thorough knowledge of Australian Standards applicable to temporary works, structural design, and construction engineering
• Experience with SpaceGass, Strand7, Tekla TEDDS or equivalent design software
• 3+ years' local experience leading projects, liaising with Clients, managing scopes, and preparing fee proposals
• Strong commercial awareness: ability to manage budgets, track project performance, and identify and raise variations in a timely manner
• Demonstrated people management capability – mentoring engineers, conducting performance reviews, and supporting team development
• Exceptional communication skills and a proactive, client-facing approach