# Design Engineer: Commercial Civils

**Company**: WSP Africa
**Location**: Midrand, Gauteng
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP Africa is seeking a talented and detail-oriented Design Engineer: Commercial Civils to join our Transport & Infrastructure division, based in Midrand.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on the planning and detailed design of civil engineering services for commercial, retail, residential, mixed-use, and institutional developments. Drawing on your Civil Engineering experience, you will work within a team of professional engineers and technologists, delivering integrated site-development infrastructure, including earthworks, internal roads and parking, stormwater drainage, water, sewer, and external service connections, in close collaboration with architects, developers, and multidisciplinary building-services teams.

### Responsibilities

- Undertake the concept, preliminary, and detailed design of commercial-development civil infrastructure in compliance with relevant codes and standards.

- Prepare bulk earthworks platforms, grading plans, and cut-and-fill models using Autodesk Civil 3D.

- Design internal roads, parking areas, stormwater systems, and water and sewer reticulation, including municipal tie-ins.

- Coordinate civil services with architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire, and landscape designs.

- Prepare engineering calculations, technical reports, drawings, specifications, tender documentation, and quantities.

- Support site-development-plan reviews, service-capacity assessments, and municipal submissions.

- Provide construction-stage design support, including responding to technical queries and site inspections where required.

- Manage allocated design tasks, programme, budget, and quality to deliver high-quality outputs on time and within budget.

- Support client engagement, proposals, and work-winning activities.

### Requirements

- BEng, BSc, or BTech in Civil Engineering.

- Registration as a Candidate Engineer or Candidate Engineering Technologist with ECSA.

- Approximately 3–5 years' relevant civil design experience, preferably on commercial, residential, retail, or mixed-use developments.

- Strong working knowledge of Autodesk Civil 3D.

- Demonstrable design experience in earthworks, roads, stormwater, water, and sewer infrastructure.

- Working knowledge of municipal approval processes and applicable South African design standards.

- Good problem-solving, analytical, and technical skills, with sound engineering judgement and attention to detail.

- Excellent verbal, written, and technical report writing skills.

- Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary project teams and to plan work and meet deadlines.

### Advantageous

- Experience with Autodesk Construction Cloud or equivalent common-data environments.

- Experience with hydraulic or stormwater design software.

### Benefits

- Work on diverse commercial and mixed-use development projects across the Transport & Infrastructure business unit.

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and project management teams.

- Flexible hybrid working model.

- Global career development opportunities.

- Inclusive and diverse workplace culture.

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## Skills

### Required
- Autodesk Civil 3D
- Civil Engineering
- ECSA registration

### Nice to have
- Autodesk Construction Cloud
- hydraulic design software
- stormwater design software

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