Principal Design Engineer

Why Work With Us?

At Main Roads, we are committed to delivering a world-class road network and creating positive, lasting impacts for WA communities. We play a critical role in overseeing the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of major roads and highways across the State. This includes managing traffic flow, ensuring road safety, and supporting infrastructure projects to improve transport efficiency.

Our services are delivered through the dedicated efforts of our employees who are located in ten regional and several metropolitan offices throughout the State.

We have a permanent opportunity available for a Principal Design Engineer in our South-West Region based in our Bunbury office.

About the Role and You

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced road design Engineer to manage multi-disciplinary road design teams for complex road projects and provide expert engineering advice to planning and delivery teams within Main Roads.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have comprehensive skill, knowledge and experience in road design standards, projects and processes.

You will also have a strong background in researching, analysing and solving engineering problems and be able to build and maintain strong working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

As you will be responsible for managing a number of staff, you will need to demonstrate good leadership skills and ability to effectively manage employee behaviour, performance and development.

If this sounds like you and a career at Main Roads interests, you – we would love to hear from you!

This position offers an excellent opportunity for an energetic and enthusiastic individual to advance or commence their career in a role within the State Government. Our environment encourages people to improve business practices and actively contribute to the strategic direction of the region and Main Roads.

What We Offer

At Main Roads, you can have a challenging, flexible, and rewarding career that takes you exactly where you want to go with an organisation that supports a healthy work-life balance to help with what is important to you.

In addition to the attractive salary and 12% superannuation, the following regional initiatives/benefits are on offer:

• Commuted Overtime Allowance of 9% based on additional 2½ hours worked per week.
• Flexible working arrangements
• Attractive leave entitlements
• Training and development opportunities
• Health and Wellbeing focus.

All specific conditions will be confirmed at the time with the successful applicants.