Dam Engineering Expert | Transformative Water Solutions

4 weeks ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia AECOM Full time

About Us


AECOM is a world-renowned infrastructure consulting firm providing innovative solutions for tomorrow's challenges. With a focus on emerging technologies, we deliver expert services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design, and engineering to program and construction management.


Our Public- and Private-Sector Clients Trust Us


On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment, our 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.


A Fortune 500 Firm


AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm with $14.4 billion in revenue from its Professional Services business in fiscal year 2023. See how we're delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com.


About This Opportunity


Due to significant contract awards within our ANZ Water business, we're expanding our Water Team in Australia. These awards bring a secure 10-year pipeline of work, allowing you to base yourself in any of our offices in Perth, Newcastle, Sydney, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, or Melbourne.


Dam Engineering Expertise


The AECOM Dams Group is one of the foremost dams consultancy businesses in Australia, often winning work purely on the strength of its people and great reputation. We offer a great team culture focused on participation and inclusion, with mentoring and guidance from industry-leading experts in geotechnical, structural, and dam design.


What You'll Do


  • Conceptual to detailed design of water dams, retarding basins, and service basins
  • Inspection, investigation, and condition assessment of existing dams, including review and surveillance of monitoring data
  • Safety Reviews with multidisciplinary teams to deliver all aspects
  • Client liaison and management of multiple projects from small to large scale
  • Superintendence and Contract Administration

What We're Looking For


We're seeking an experienced Dam Engineer with:


  • Experience in dams engineering and design
  • Relevant tertiary qualifications & RPEQ / CPEng (highly regarded)
  • Demonstrated capability in design, including the preparation of design reports, design drawings, and specifications
  • Excellent report writing and verbal communication skills
  • A positive attitude, seeing challenges as opportunities to innovate, collaborate, and grow

Join Our Team


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're committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses.


Salary Information


The estimated salary for this position is between $120,000 and $180,000 per year, depending on experience.


What We Offer


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, 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.


We welcome applications from experienced Dam Engineers with a passion for transforming water solutions.


Join our team and be part of shaping the future of infrastructure and water management in Australia.


AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits, and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.


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.


A Fortune 500 Firm


AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm with $14.4 billion in revenue from its Professional Services business in fiscal year 2023.


See how we're delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com.



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