Principal Consultant

**Company Description** Work with Us. Change the World.**

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

AECOM’s Advisory team is looking for highly motivated and experienced Principal Consultant to join our team based in Perth. Our team contributes to the planning and evaluation of projects, primarily in transport, but with a growing focus on the energy and water sectors.

We are looking for an agile individual with experience in business case development and appraisal who loves analysing and problem solving, and who values excellent client service. Along the way you will be challenged, gain understanding of how our business operates and work with a motivated leadership team.

What we need you to achieve:

- Delivering advisory services including business case development, project assurance and appraisal, strategic advice, feasibility advice and infrastructure prioritisation
- Developing reports and presentations to communicate findings to a range of stakeholders, including government and private clients in a variety of sectors
- Leading and managing projects so that projects are delivered on time, to scope and to budget with sound and reliable outcomes.
- Leading proposals and other business development activities to support the Infrastructure Advisory and wider AECOM teams

**Qualifications** About you**
- Strong technical experience in a role advising government clients on business cases, project assurance and evaluation;
- Demonstrable experience in business case development, project assurance and evaluation. A technical background in transport engineering/planning would be advantageous
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and ability to clearly and effectively report technical outcomes to a wide range of stakeholders from different backgrounds to communicate complex concepts in a way that everyone understands
- Strong presentation and organisational skills, and willingness to articulate analytical outcomes and options to clients, stakeholders and project team partners
- Demonstrated experience in the management of projects and meeting delivery requirements.
- Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships, ensure that the needs of clients are understood and met
- Experience working within consulting is ideal, although government or other relevant sectors may be suitable.

**Additional Information**

**About AECOM**

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public

**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 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, 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 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.