Overview
Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time
Salary: $116,413 - $140,849
Grade: VPS 5
Occupation: Engineering
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 13008
.About the Role
Reporting to the Deputy Director Engineering, the Civil Engineering Designer provides civil design expertise to support the planning, development, and delivery of road infrastructure projects. The role is responsible for delivering high-quality civil engineering design solutions, models, design documentation, reports, and calculations from concept through to construction. Working across the Big Build Roads Delivery Programs the role ensures designs are practical, value-for-money, delivered within agreed timeframes, budgets, and compliant with DTP standards and project requirements.
Join us in building better connections for Victoria by:
- Develop and deliver high-quality, practical and value-for-money civil engineering design solutions from concept through to detailed design by undertaking civil design and 2D/3D modelling activities, and preparing construction documentation, reports and calculations for road infrastructure projects including road, drainage, pavements, earthworks, signage and line marking, traffic signals, utilities and other relevant disciplines.
- Coordinate design inputs from relevant disciplines and packages required for allocated projects, ensuring design documentation is technically sound and delivered within agreed timeframes, budgets, quality expectations, DTP and industry standards, and project requirements.
- Prepare task briefs for specialist consultants and Technical Advisors as required, coordinate and review their outputs, and escalate matters where needed to support the delivery of quality advice and design documentation.
- Provide civil engineering advice on planning, design and delivery issues for road infrastructure projects, contributing to the identification, assessment and mitigation of engineering risks during the design development process.
- Work collaboratively with project team members, engineers, contractors, consultants, DTP representatives and other stakeholders to resolve design issues, align design inputs and support coordinated, efficient and constructible design outcomes.
About You
You will have:
- Strong technical knowledge and expertise in civil engineering design and drafting, and multi-disciplinary coordination for roads infrastructure projects, including road and drainage design, pavements, traffic signals, and utilities. Experience in integrated water management and flood impact assessment is highly desirable.
- Experience in civil engineering planning and design delivery of transport infrastructure projects with various complexity, in a multi stakeholder environment through all phases of the project life cycle.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Austroads Guidelines, DTP standards, specifications, policies, guidelines and Australian Standards and legislations relevant to the planning, design and construction of road infrastructure projects.
- Proficiency in the use of digital engineering tools and platforms required for design and management of road infrastructure projects (such as MicroStation, Open Roads, 12D, AutoCAD, ProjectWise or similar).
This opportunity is a 3-year maximum term.
For more details about this opportunity, please take a look at the here.
What can we offer you?
We are committed to creating a workplace that inspires and engages you – we want you to be a powerful contributor to this wonderfully diverse and dynamic organisation. Our offering continues to grow but here
is what we already have in store for you:
- VIDA Roads welcomes flexible working arrangements.
- Access to annual health checks, including skins checks and flu shots.
- Access low-cost gym memberships for yourself and family at over 200 facilities via Fitness Passport.
- Access to Thrive Gateway, our employee benefits platform is your once stop shop for wellbeing as well as savings and discounts at hundreds of retailers.
- We're committed to supporting our team members and their families in improving mental health and wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential counselling and advice for our team members and their families for work and personal issues.
- Annual salary increases and incremental performance-based payments over the course of your employment.
- Leave loading of 17.5% payment on top of your base salary when you take annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave.
Need more information?
Irena Krsteska – Deputy Director, Engineering - irena.krsteska@vida.vic.gov.au
How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now via the ‘Apply’ button and follow the prompts. Applications to include a CV and preferably Cover Letter and will not be accepted via email. There is no need to provide any type of response to Key Selection Criteria separately, but we do encourage you to outline relevant experience and motivation for applying in your cover letter.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which include a national
police check and misconduct screening.
To be part of something meaningful and leave a positive legacy connecting Victorian communities,
apply for a role with us today.
Applications close Thursday 12 November 2026 at 11.59pm Posted 29 October 2026
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