The Senior Engineer - Building Civils at AECOM plays a key role in leading civil engineering design efforts across small to medium-sized projects. This position involves technical leadership, client engagement, and team mentorship within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary BIM environment, ensuring safety, compliance, and design excellence throughout the project lifecycle.
What You'll Do
- Deliver discipline involvement in projects and ensure effective delivery input from others
- Work on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations, drawings, and reports
- Conduct design development, design review, supervision, coordination, and design documentation
- Guide junior engineers and independently perform all tasks necessary to complete design works
- Share technical expertise and experience with others in the company via internal technical communication and presentations
- Develop high-quality design outputs
- Perform hands-on design work
- Serve as lead engineer on small to medium size projects
- Provide specialised technical input to studies
- Engage with the client and other disciplines to develop solutions and design for specific areas of expertise
- Lead a design team of junior and mid-level Building Civils staff
- Provide daily mentorship, direction, and motivation to ensure AECOM remains an employer of choice for Building Civils skills
- Ensure assigned teams effectively coordinate with other disciplines to prevent design gaps
- Support construction supervision teams
- Bring project teams together to work toward a shared goal, ensuring team results exceed individual achievements
- Hold themselves and others to high standards
- Provide coaching and guidance to less experienced staff, engineers, and designers to increase technical competence and knowledge of systems and procedures
- Begin to build and maintain client relationships
- Participate in preparing major bids and proposals on the technical aspect
- Support business development initiatives through technical expertise
- Technically lead aspects of projects
- Support Project Managers and technical teams to deliver within scope, budget, timeframe, and high-quality standards
- Interface with clients on schedules, meetings, and issues
- Manage client expectations and perceptions
- Anticipate potential schedule or priority delays and initiate plans for alternative actions
- Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields
- Support digital transformation strategy and implementation
- Embrace change within the discipline
- Follow existing or develop design procedures to facilitate high-quality, cost-effective work by self and team members
- Take responsibility for civil designs and drawings
- Attend planning, design and site meetings
- Conduct ad-hoc site inspections
- Undertake technical reviews / audits to ensure designs meet project/study requirements, company objectives, and are produced timely and cost-effectively
- Work in a safe manner, complying with and actively contributing to company Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) policies, manuals, and procedures
- Ensure implementation of safety and integrity principles in civil engineering risk documentation
- Promote compliance with all relevant engineering standards and internal procedures for all design activities
What We're Looking For
- Ability to lead a design team of junior and mid-level Building Civils staff
- Proven experience in design of stormwater (hydrology), water (hydraulics), sewerage, bulk earthworks, roads, and pavement design
- Working knowledge of running a building civil engineering team in a multi-disciplinary team environment
- All project drawings are generated using BIM tools (Autodesk Revit, Navisworks, ACC360)
- Ability to interface with clients on schedules, meetings, and issues
- Manage client expectations and perceptions
- Anticipate potential schedule or priority delays and initiate plans for alternative actions
- Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields
- Support digital transformation strategy and implementation
- Embrace change within the discipline
- Follow existing or develop design procedures to facilitate high-quality, cost-effective work
- Take responsibility for civil designs and drawings
- Attend planning, design and site meetings
- Conduct ad-hoc site inspections
- Undertake technical reviews / audits
- Work in a safe manner, complying with and actively contributing to company Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) policies, manuals, and procedures
- Ensure implementation of safety and integrity principles in civil engineering risk documentation
- Promote compliance with all relevant engineering standards and internal procedures for all design activities
- Superb interpersonal and leadership skills
- Growth mindset
- Attention to detail
- Excellent work ethic
Nice to Have
- Experience with Navisworks
- Experience with ACC360
- Experience with Revit
- Experience with Civil3D
- Experience with SWMM
- Experience with EPANET
- Experience with Dynamo
- Experience with other associated design programmes
Technical Stack
- Navisworks
- ACC360
- Revit
- Civil3D
- SWMM
- EPANET
- Dynamo
- BIM tools
Team & Environment
- Work on small to medium size projects
- Operate within a multi-disciplinary team environment with junior and mid-level Building Civils staff
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: Not specified
- Equity: Not specified
- Other benefits: Not specified
Work Mode
- Type: Not specified
- Locations: Not specified
- Flexibility: Not specified
AECOM is committed to equal employment opportunity and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.
