Associate Director

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
**The Role**

AECOM’s market-leading Renewable Energy business in Australia is looking for a highly experienced Director to join our practice in Brisbane and be instrumental in the growth of our team. This role is suitable for a passionate individual with a recognised track record in leading owner’s engineer services and ideally, project management services on behalf of our clients.

Our team works closely with investors and developers to enable them to deliver successful developments from pre-construction through to operations. We are currently delivering a broad range of projects including solar and wind owner’s engineer, project management, design, feasibility assessments, energy advisory, and grid connection studies associated with future generation and storage projects.

With high projected growth in the renewable energy sector, there has never been a more exciting time to be in the energy industry. This is a fantastic opportunity to be actively involved in a high-performing team of energy professionals and develop your career in a growing sector.

As an Associate Director, you will be instrumental in enabling and growing the team. You will collaborate to deliver projects, develop proposals, and deliver on client expectations. As an active and experienced engineer in the sector, your experience with whole of life cycle project experience on wind and solar farm developments will be key to your success in this role.

**About You**

You will have demonstrable qualifications and experience, including:

- 15+ years’ relevant experience
- Demonstrated consulting experience in the Renewable Energy industry working with asset owners, developers, suppliers, or power utilities
- Project or engineering experience of power plant developments or industrial plants from feasibility studies, concept or detailed designs, specifications development and tender evaluations through to leading design reviews and construction monitoring.
- Wind and solar energy project experience highly regarded
- An excellent understanding of large-scale power project development and grid connection process in Australia
- Experience with other power generation technologies, e.g. energy storage, biofuels, or hydrogen advantageous
- Knowledge of the major generation technologies
- Strong technical, communication, and time management skills.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Renewable Energy, Electrical or Mechanical ideal)
- CPEng and RPEQ, or working towards

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM 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.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse