Company Description

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We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – over 50,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Job Description

We have an opportunity for a “Civil Discipline Lead” in AECOM Canada’s Mining and Industrial team in Quebec.

You have an opportunity to join AECOM an end-to-end provider of sustainable engineering services for major projects and supporting existing operations.  You can make a difference by becoming a valued member of our team as we deliver on our goal to make the world a better place.

The ideal candidate will have a successful track record in team management, delivering conceptual, preliminary and detailed design phases, and construction services of mining and industrial projects. They will work in a team environment with intermediate and senior engineers to deliver studies and detailed designs projects to our clients based in Eastern Canada, Canada and the US and beyond.

The Civil Discipline Lead will provide mentorship to more junior staff – guiding them in their technical development and recommending training and investment necessary for those staff to progress in their career and in alignment with our mining and industrial group strategic requirements. 

Excellent communication skills will be required for this role for clarity in staff support/coordination, scope communications, confirmation of client expectations, certainty in delegation and confidence in company representation to clients  

This position may be based in any of our Quebec offices – it is expected that the successful candidate will initiate team growth within the same office but may hire strategic personnel and supporting teams in other geographies where more pragmatic.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

Leadership Expectations:

Mentor junior staff to develop skill sets that support AECOM and Mining and Industrial team goals.Establish and maintain training, development and succession plans to develop a high performing team in support of our mining and industrial clients and our strategic objectives.Provide leadership and engineering decisions to facilitate the delivery of Electrical designs, including Power, Control, Instrumentation and Communications systems.Manage the team adherence to AECOM's project and Quality standards, including capability of learning and adopting clients' standard and requirements upon request.Promote accuracy, completeness and quality of technical aspect on project documentation produced in accordance with AECOM QA/QC procedures and the clients' standards.

Technical Capabilities:

Ability to plan, design and / or supervise the development of civil earthworks infrastructure for process, materials handling and mine infrastructure including site clearing and grading, drainage and drainage control structures, water and tailings dams, access roads, haul roads, and buried services.Ability to plan and produce procurement packages for civil construction scopes of work to facilitate project tender process, including the production of relevant supporting engineering design documentation.Ability to Plan and produce engineering reports using sound engineering logic and written expression in English and French that are cohesive, clear and concise on Civil subject matters.Demonstrate creativity, proactiveness, foresight and mature judgement in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges.Ability to work with Construction Contract Administrator to review Civil aspects of Shop Drawings, prepare and issue responses to contractor queries.Ability to lead site inspections and issue inspection reports, issue Field Instructions and Field Orders, and prepare deficiency reports.Ability to lead a team in providing technical support through all phases of the project.Client Management Skills:Perform the client-facing role of Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager on small to medium projects managing a multi-disciplinary team and project controls staff. Deliver the project in a timely manner to expected quality and allocated budget.

 

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent12+ years civil engineering design experience in a multidisciplinary team environment for heavy industry such as mining, including field services during construction phase of projects.Registered as a Professional Engineer (“Ing.”) with l’Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec.Able to travel by domestic air travel within Canada.Valid Class V driver’s license.

 

Preferred qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from a recognized/accredited institution. 20+ years Civil engineering design experience in a multidisciplinary team environment, including field services during construction phase of projects.Possess current knowledge and ability to interpret and apply the relevant industry standards and their application for compliant designs.Proven track record in design and production of engineering documents such as procurement packages (scope of work, equipment datasheets / specifications), site plans, grading plans, drainage details, civil concrete details, material takeoffs).Proven track record in the design of surface water runoff drainage and collection, haul roads, dams, mine industrial area earthworks and services.Must be able to interpret engineers' notes & specifications to deliver the scope in timely manner with minimum amount of supervision.Proficient with Microsoft software including Outlook, Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Teams.Ability to work independently.Capable of collaborating and communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.Experience in the design of tailings dams, mine closure design.Experience in working with drafting and modelling software such as AutoCAD, Civil3D and Navisworks.Experience in working with Microsoft Project, OneDrive and Sharepoint.Demonstrated experience with business development in the mining and industrial market and ability to win business.Critical thinking to identify issues, present solutions and follow through to achieve completion.

Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and French are an advantage, as the incumbent may be required to assist in projects outside Québec on occasion and work with clients outside Québec. 

Additional Information

Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position