Water Process Engineer

Shape the Future of Water Infrastructure

Jacobs is seeking a dedicated and skilled Associate Process Engineer (Water and/or Wastewater) to join our fast-growing Water Infrastructure team in the ANZ region. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial part in planning, design, project delivery, design management, and project management, while also assisting in positioning and winning projects across a range of services.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative and high-performing team of water professionals to deliver a range of significant projects for both public and private sector clients both locally and nationally. We have a diverse base of water clients across the region and this role will contribute to setting and implementing strategy and capability for this client base, with support from our global technical leads.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver technically excellent designs and consultancy services.
• Lead project delivery on cost and time, ensuring client satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain strong key client relationships.
• Represent the team at client meetings and events.
• Assist in driving business development and winning work.
• Identify and support the pursuit of future opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with Jacobs' client management team to identify emerging opportunities.
• Further develop Project Manager and Project Director skills.
• Develop design management functions on projects.
• Maintain compliance with Jacobs' QA procedures, including the deliverables review QA process.
• Facilitate the technical development of junior resources.
• Engage with high performers in a team environment to facilitate knowledge sharing and coaching.
• Promote an inclusive and safety culture within the organisation and with our clients.

What You'll Do:

• Deliver engineering solutions with outstanding technical and commercial results across the water sector in the field of water and/or wastewater engineering both for existing as well as emerging technologies.
• Support leaders of the water and wastewater team in team development and growth, building design capability, and growing the section portfolio.
• Actively mentor junior team members and manage workload distribution within tasks.
• Foster client relationships and technical leadership.

Here's what you'll need

Your Expertise:

• Proficient in water and/or wastewater treatment from planning to commissioning.
• In the region of 8+ years' experience in water and wastewater process engineering, with the ability to work with and coordinate multiple engineering disciplines, including those with some members located throughout Australia or internationally.
• Extensive knowledge of safety in design and relevant industry codes and standards relevant to the Australian water industry.
• Demonstrated experience on multi-disciplinary projects, including participation in and facilitation of standard design meetings and workshops (progress design meetings, safety in design meetings and workshops etc).
• Ability to drive team excellence and delivery of quality solutions that meet client expectations.
• Technical specialist within cross-disciplinary knowledge and application.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members in their own technical development.
• Able to foster strong cross-disciplinary relationships within Jacobs and our partners.
• Experience with managing internal processes, including periodic reporting on project progress, financials and quality systems.

Your Client Focus:

• Implement Jacobs' Client Centric Strategy to cultivate client relationships.
• Exemplify strong service delivery and engages with our ongoing pursuit of work through and ensuring high-quality service.
• Contribute to successful project delivery and coordinates resources to address relevant project challenges.
• An uncompromising approach to safety and welfare.
• Promote Jacobs' Beyond Zero culture of caring.

Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Chemical/Environmental engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive water and/or wastewater process engineering experience.
• In-depth knowledge of water industry standards, codes, and best practices, as well as a diverse understanding of the impact of construction/maintenance practicalities on design.
• Excellent task, design and project management, as well as client relationship skills.
• Outstanding technical communication and report writing abilities.

Join Jacobs and contribute to a world where water engineering solutions not only thrive but set the benchmark for innovation.

What Jacobs Can Offer You

Jacobs is a global company that supports your personal life and career journeys. From our inclusive employee networks to our positive mental health champions, we're committed to driving a culture of caring where you can be you. With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we've gone beyond traditional ways of working to help you uncover a working arrangement that delivers the flexibility, tools and space to maximise your potential.

We're the 2023 winners of the Consult Australia People First Award for our suite of employee benefits that support all our employees in all stages of their personal and professional lives. For the 6th consecutive year, we've been named an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia). In New Zealand, we're a founding member of The Diversity Agenda and are committed to making our industry more inclusive and diverse. We acknowledge the unique status of Māori as the indigenous people of Aotearoa and have a continued focus in building cultural understanding and competence in Te Ao Māori. Our Bronze Employer status in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTI+ inclusion recognises our progress in creating an environment where our Jacobs employees can bring their whole selves to work.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we're inclusive, we're more connected, and if diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our eight global Jacobs employee networks centred on driving inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and our Women's Network – find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here.

We're an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of diverse backgrounds to apply. Māori and Pasifika peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Jacobs aims to provide cultural safety at our interviews. Māori and Pasifika people are invited to nominate a Whanau, family or cultural representative to participate on the interview panel; please let your recruiter know in your application.

Please contact the team if you require support or reasonable adjustments regarding our recruitment process (for example, you need the application form in a different format).

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from marginalised or underrepresented backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Jacobs, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align with every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Please note: If you are being represented by a recruitment agency you will not be considered, to be considered you will need to apply directly to Jacobs.