Water Planning Specialist

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia AECOM Full time

Transformative Solutions for a Better World

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle. We're seeking a skilled Water Planner to join our Sydney team and contribute to delivering innovative projects across growth servicing, strategic planning for water, wastewater, and recycled water networks.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver 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.

Requirements:

  • 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.

About AECOM

AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. We're committed to delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come and fostering 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.

What We Offer

We provide 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.



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