Company Description

We encourage you to strengthen your knowledge within and beyond your discipline. 

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.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

Our global Buildings and Places business line brings together a versatile and collaborative team of urban planning, building design and engineering professionals working to create liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities.

Our extensive expertise cover urbanism and planning, architecture, building and systems engineering, and cost, project, and construction management.  

Together with our clients, we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including, social infrastructure, transit, technology and logistics, and commercial and corporate real estate, whilst focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

Job Description

AECOM’s Buildings & Places Team are seeking a technically outstanding Principal Engineer to join their Structures team, based in Melbourne. As a senior member of our team, you will provide technical, project management and structural engineering design input on a range of projects across Health, Sports Infrastructure, Aviation, Defence Education and Commercial projects.  

What will a day in this role look like:
 

Act as a Senior technical resource – providing technical advice to the wider team. Use your knowledge of key building components including: stability design, basements, structural steel framing and connections. Adept in leading the design of economic post-tensioned concrete floors.Liaise with clients, architects and builders throughout both the design and construction phases of major projects.Manage and develop design and delivery procedures to facilitate high-quality, cost-effective work by other members of the team.Use your technical expertise to perform quality control review of design calculations or drawings and prepare technical specification sections.Participate as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team to undertake inter-disciplinary review of project deliverables alongside providing input to the development of engineering budgets and schedules to meet project requirements.

Qualifications

Qualifications

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.  

What are we looking for from you?

Bachelor of Engineering with (ideally) 10 + years of experience of delivering complex and varied structural engineering projects across a range of market sectors across and building typologies Australia / New Zealand.Prior experience (or interest) in delivering mass timber designs is preferred, but not essential.A track record of autonomously providing specialised structural technical input to both conceptual and detailed design.Ability to utilise and embrace advanced digital workflows to achieve optimised design outcomes alongside extensive exposure to industry standard software such as: ETABS, RAM Concept, RAPT and SpaceGASS.Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

Join us and let’s get started.

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Additional Information

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses.  Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

 

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.