Structural Engineer - Sydney

Build a future you believe in, with us…

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.

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, environment, urban development and construction solutions to our clients in the public and private sectors.

Our growing pipeline of large-scale, high-profile, and complex projects means we are looking for the best people in their fields to join us as we realise our vision to be Australia’s infrastructure consultant of choice.

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.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a Structural Engineer to join our Sydney team of around 40 professionals, based in our CBD office - just a 2-minute stroll from the Sydney Metro Gadigal Station and well-connected by multiple transport options. This role provides an opportunity to work with other Engineers including Senior and Principal Engineers who are leaders in their areas of expertise.

Our ideal candidate would have 3 to 8 years’ local experience in consulting structural engineering, will have worked on a variety of building structural projects, and will have a thirst to learn and grow.

We have a strong pipeline of structural design projects across residential, commercial, industrial, retail, education, health and infrastructure for a wide range of clients.

About the role:

You will work under a range of Senior and Principal engineers, and with a team of more junior engineers across a variety of projects and will be responsible for:

• Undertaking structural engineering design from concept to detailed, under supervision
• Working largely on the design of building structures, but with the opportunity to also work on maritime and civil structures
• Undertaking site visits during the design and construction phases
• Completing condition assessment and reporting on building structures
• Coordinating with the external design team on the projects you work on
• Maintaining client relationships on the projects you work on

About You:

To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess:

• Approximately 3-8 years of local consulting experience
• The ability to work and coordinating with external design team members and clients
• Time management skills and the agility to work across several projects at once to assist the whole team
• Experience in the design of a range of building structures
• Experience in undertaking condition assessments of building structures
• Ability or willingness to assist in the preparation of fee proposals
• A good knowledge of using Bluebeam, Spacegass and RAPT
• Exposure to RAM Concept, RCB, and ETABS

This is the ideal position for someone who is committed and passionate about furthering their structural design knowledge and growing their career in 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 crafting solutions that have wide reaching impact.

The Tonkin difference:

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.

Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That’s Tonkin.

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.