# CAD Team Leader - Principal Civil Drafter

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Melbourne, Victoria
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

At WSP, you can contribute to impactful, world-class projects and collaborate with leading professionals across the industry. With access to global expertise, advanced technology and a culture that values curiosity and diverse thinking, you will lead a high-performing drafting team and play a key role in delivering complex infrastructure projects across Victoria.

As Principal Civil Drafter and CAD Team Leader, you will:

- Lead, manage and develop a team of civil drafters across multiple Victorian projects

- Oversee the preparation, coordination and issue of complex drawing packages, ensuring quality and consistency across all outputs

- Act as the technical authority for drafting, setting and maintaining standards, QA processes and best practice procedures

- Plan and allocate resources to meet project timelines, budgets and deliverables

- Provide senior-level technical guidance and conduct detailed reviews of drawings and models

- Work closely with engineering leads and project managers to support integrated design delivery

- Drive capability uplift through mentoring, coaching and structured development of team members

- Support recruitment, workforce planning and performance management within the team

- Champion Digital Engineering, including adoption of new tools, workflows and innovation initiatives

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of systems, standards and delivery processes

This is a Melbourne-based role with hybrid working arrangements.

**About You**

- Significant experience as a Civil Drafter, operating at Principal Technician or equivalent level – usually at least 10 years of experience within a large consultancy environment.

- Proven leadership experience and a true passion for managing drafting teams within a project delivery environment.

- Formal qualifications in civil drafting or equivalent.

- Strong experience across civil infrastructure projects in Victoria, with deep understanding of Victorian standards (DoT, MTM, LXRP, SRL, etc).

- Advanced proficiency in MicroStation, AutoCAD and ProjectWise.

- Demonstrated ability to lead quality assurance, standards development and technical governance.

- Strong communication, stakeholder management and coordination skills across multidisciplinary teams.

## Skills

### Required
- MicroStation
- AutoCAD
- ProjectWise
- Civil Drafting
- Leadership
- Quality Assurance
- Technical Governance

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