About us: WGA is an Australian and New Zealand company like no other – we are owned by our employees, loved by our long-term clients and have deep roots in our communities. With a team of over 670 people, WGA provides a rich, diverse, and empowered workplace, and offers you a chance to work alongside some of the best in the business.
WGA offers an outstanding working environment that fosters and supports mutual learning, respect, dignity, cultural openness, and an appreciation of differing perspectives and backgrounds. We strive to offer inspiring career paths and a selection of fantastic employee benefits including exceptional parental leave options, flexible hours and work from home capability and learning and development programs tailored to you.
We empower our engineers and designers to think outside the square and dare to be different in their delivery of tailored design engineering solutions across the Buildings, Transport, Water Infrastructure, Urban Development, Ports and Marine, Energy, Defence and Resources sectors.
About Our Approach
We focus upon the core philosophy of delivering excellent engineering solutions for our valued Clients which allows us to create exceptional, long-term opportunities for our personnel. Our unique style of project delivery ensures that our people don't have to choose between maintaining hands on Engineering Design and corporate career options, they can have both!
About Our Role
Our Industrial division boasts an incredible history of delivering high quality project work for our loyal clients. It includes our ports and marine sector that has steadily grown nationally over the last 10 years. With this has come the opportunity to offer our team a wide variety of exciting projects across the nation to sink their teeth into. Our teams regularly cross borders with their workload and work with interstate teams. This position is to add to our national team to work on both projects in Tasmania, as well as nationally and in the Pacific. With a strong local and national pipeline, it is an exciting time to join WGA.
To continue this growth, we are looking for a mid to senior level engineer interested in supporting exciting projects and excellent people within the freedom of a privately owned consulting firm.
This role is based in Hobart, however, we are flexible to consider applicants from other parts of Tasmania.
About You Relevant Engineering Degree majoring in Structural Engineering (or equivalent). Ideally, exposure to a consulting environment across projects such as: Jetties, wharves, cranes, mooring analysis, and other Ports projects. Proven skills as an Engineer designing resources, industrial or marine structures within Australia. Experience designing in steel and concrete structures. Working knowledge of relevant Australian and International Standards. Hands on experience using recognised industry design and analysis software (e.g., SpaceGASS and Strand etc). CPEng (advantageous). Willingness to work across multiple other sectors and projects including Energy, Buildings and Infrastructure. Eager to establish relationships with external stakeholders and our national team, fostering our unique ability to share knowledge and work beyond regional boundaries. About working with us:
At WGA we believe a diverse workplace fosters unique and progressive ideas and drives our culture of learning and sharing knowledge. We encourage all to apply because whatever your background you can progress your career and enjoy the benefits that only a privately owned organisation can offer.
WGA is a Work180 endorsed workplace for women, find out more at WGA | WORK180 Endorsed Employer.
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