The Role

As a Water Resources Engineer with AECOM, this role presents an opportunity to fast-track your technical and business development skills, working on some of the most exciting projects across the region. This role will enable you to work with industry leaders in the delivery of water resources projects, particularly in the areas of flood risk assessment, hydrological and hydraulic modelling, drainage design, mine water management and coastal engineering.

Our Brisbane Water Resources Team provides multi-disciplinary, integrated delivery of water resources services across all industry sectors, offering a broad variety of office and site-based opportunities!

The team are currently working on five sections of the Inland Rail project in QLD and NSW, which spans approximately 400km, as well as TMR’s Edmonton to Gordonvale, Cross River Rail (RIS) and other large infrastructure projects across Australia.

In 2020 our team won an Australian Engineer Excellence Award for the Bruce Highway Link Flood Study. We also deliver multiple exciting projects for our mining and resourcing clients such as BHP, Arrow Energy and Oz Minerals, as well as providing specialised technical services (for example CFD modelling) to our internal clients worldwide.

We encourage your professional and personal development and you will be supported in obtaining your CPEng and RPEQ if you are not already accredited and receive strong mentoring and support in order to progress your career.

Salary range $75,000 - $85,000 (inclusive of superannuation.)

About You

• 2-8 years’ relevant professional experience;
• Successful track delivering work within a consultancy environment;
• Demonstrated experience with water resource modelling packages such as TUFLOW, DRAINS, HEC-RAS (1D and 2D), RORB, XP-RAFTS, URBS, MUSIC, GoldSim, etc.
• Proficiency in GIS software such as ArcGIS and QGIS;
• Experience in bridge scour estimates
• Experience developing water balance models and dam failure impact studies;
• Good working knowledge of ARR2016, TMR Drainage Manual, ANCOLD and QUDM;
• CFD modelling skills using software packages such as Flow-3D or OpenFoam – highly regarded
• Experience with 12D design software - desirable;
• Programming skills in VBA, Python etc - desirable.

Qualifications

• Tertiary Qualifications in a relevant Engineering discipline, Water Resource Management or Environmental Science/Hydrology - essential;
• Working towards RPEQ/CPEng.