Network Planning Engineer - Water Infrastructure

Title: Network Planning Engineer - Water Infrastructure

Location: Melbourne Australia

Employees work in a hybrid mode

Full-time

State/Province: Victoria

Business Group: DCS

Legal Entity: AECOM Australia Pty Ltd

Business Line: Water

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Operating Group: International

Primary Location: AU - Melbourne, VIC - Collins Square

Job Description:

Due to significant contract awards within our Water business, we are expanding our Water Infrastructure team in Melbourne.

The Water Infrastructure group provides services to a range of internal and external clients on projects covering water and wastewater treatment, dams, asset management, major conveyance, industrial, civil infrastructure, and defence sectors, with a key focus on supporting sustainable outcomes for our clients and the communities they serve.

By joining our team, you'll be immersed in a strong, long-term pipeline of work, handling complex, large-scale and iconic projects across ANZ.

How you'll make a difference:

• Proactive delivery of high-quality and timely valued water network planning solutions that are focused on flexibility, sustainability, optimisation, integration, whole-of-lifecycle cost and acceptable risk.
• Utilise your creativity, foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual project delivery, technical and client challenges, determining technical objectives and requirements, and developing standards and guides for technical activities and applications.
• Provide technical direction, mentor and train our junior professionals, fostering the growth and development of the team.
• Business development activities including client engagement, proposal preparation and bid management.

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.

The qualities that help you thrive:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications.
• Demonstrated network planning experience that demonstrates the development and evaluation of options and proficient in hydraulic network modelling of water and/or wastewater systems.
• An understanding of current and potential future policy, practice, trends, technology, and information affecting water planning, including drivers, regulation, framework, and guidelines.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly build rapport and communicate with various stakeholders.
• Appreciation of clients within the water and other water-related markets such as land development, private water utilities, local and state government as in major urban water utilities, regional authorities etc.
• Experience or an interest in project management.

Additional Information

Why you'll love working with us

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
• Volunteer and representation leave
• Flex public holidays - swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.