Jobs at AECOM

Senior Electrical Engineer supporting utility-scale wind, solar, battery storage, and hybrid renewable projects. Responsibilities include engineering reviews, designs, calculations, technical advisory work, planning and approvals support, tender evaluations, design reviews, construction support, commissioning, quality assurance, and technical verification. The role also coordinates multidisciplinary inputs, solves design discrepancies, communicates technical concepts to stakeholders, and mentors graduate and early-career engineers.

Provides strategic technical leadership for major multidisciplinary building-services projects in Sydney. The role oversees mechanical design quality, technical delivery, commercial performance, client relationships, business development, and mentoring. It requires deep building-services expertise, project delivery experience across multiple sectors, strong communication skills, and professional engineering registration. Australian citizenship is required; current or previous defence clearance is advantageous.

Leads hydraulic engineering for building projects, including design, calculations, technical reviews, sign-off, client coordination, and mentoring junior engineers. Delivers systems covering sanitary plumbing, drainage, water reticulation, hot water, rainwater harvesting, trade waste, reverse osmosis, and other specialist water services. Supports multidisciplinary project delivery and provides practical, cost-effective solutions while contributing to national hydraulics teams.

Graduate Engineer supporting systems engineering and safety assurance activities on transportation and infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include hazard identification, risk assessment, requirements management, reliability and safety analyses, and preparation of safety documentation, hazard logs, human factors registers, and system safety risk registers. The role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and mentorship from specialists in systems engineering, human factors, RAM, and safety assurance.

Lead multidisciplinary design teams across Australia and the UK for a complex, safety-critical defence infrastructure programme. Provide technical leadership for process engineering systems, particularly radiological waste management and supporting infrastructure. Integrate designs, resolve technical issues, manage risks, advise senior stakeholders, support programme planning, mentor technical specialists, strengthen nuclear safety capability, and contribute to client relationships and business growth.

Leads design management for complex rail infrastructure projects across feasibility, concept, detailed design, and delivery. Ensures compliance with rail standards, codes, and safety regulations; coordinates multidisciplinary design teams; manages interfaces across stations, corridors, systems, and structures; develops design documentation and executive briefings; and maintains relationships with transport authorities, contractors, and project partners across Australia and New Zealand.

Provides commercial legal advice to Buildings and Transportation project teams. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates consultancy agreements, subcontracts, joint ventures, confidentiality agreements, and other project contracts. Advises on tenders, procurement, risk allocation, disputes, claims, governance, compliance, intellectual property, insurance, and commercial matters throughout project delivery. Collaborates with business leaders and multidisciplinary teams across major infrastructure and professional services projects.

AECOM is building its Ground Engineering and Tunnelling team across Australia and New Zealand for major water and underground infrastructure programs. Opportunities span geotechnical engineering, tunnelling design, underground construction, project and design management, field engineering, construction support, quality assurance, risk, and technical leadership. Candidates at all career stages will collaborate on complex projects across water, transport, energy, resources, and civil infrastructure.

Leads AECOM’s multidisciplinary urbanism and planning team across NSW and the ACT. Responsibilities include team leadership, market growth, client relationship management, strategic pursuits, project governance, quality and risk oversight, business performance, digital innovation, and staff development. The role also requires representing the practice in industry forums and supporting culturally responsive outcomes through engagement with First Nations stakeholders.

Lead hydraulic assessment, design, technical review, and delivery of stormwater and drainage infrastructure for major transport, defence, energy, and water projects. Oversee hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, approve technical outputs, advise clients on flood risk and drainage strategy, mentor engineers, support construction, contribute to proposals, and help grow AECOM’s Perth drainage capability.

Lead drainage and stormwater engineering for major infrastructure projects in Perth. Responsibilities include designing drainage systems and stormwater management plans, conducting hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, reviewing technical designs, ensuring compliance with Australian standards, mentoring engineers, advising clients and regulators, supporting quality assurance, and contributing to project delivery and business development.

Lead urban and environmental planning projects across New South Wales, Canberra, and other Australian regions. Responsibilities include reviewing plans and technical reports, preparing planning assessments, due diligence reports, approval documentation, policy analyses, and planning strategies. The role involves mentoring junior planners, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, liaising with clients and authorities, supporting bids and fee proposals, and delivering major infrastructure, masterplanning, rezoning, and development projects on schedule and within budget.

Urban Planner supporting planning assessments, strategic planning, statutory approvals, due diligence, masterplanning, and major infrastructure projects across New South Wales and Australia. Responsibilities include reviewing plans and technical reports, conducting policy and compliance research, preparing planning documentation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, supporting client relationships and business development, and contributing to fee proposals. Experience with data centres, rail, renewable energy, transit-oriented development, rezoning, and State Significant Development applications is advantageous.

Lead technically complex hydraulic designs for major building projects, ensuring compliance with Australian codes, standards, fire requirements, and authority approvals. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, project managers, clients, and stakeholders to define scopes, solve technical challenges, and deliver high-quality documentation and project outcomes. Mentor junior engineers and designers while supporting resourcing, program delivery, and team performance.

Conduct targeted and baseline fauna surveys across Western Australian bioregions, designing programs aligned with regulatory requirements and survey standards. Support environmental impact assessments, compliance monitoring, approvals, and technical reporting. Engage with regulators, manage consulting deliverables, and mentor junior staff in field and office settings. The role requires extensive zoology experience, Western Australian survey expertise, client-management capability, and willingness to relocate to Perth.

Lead major highways and transport infrastructure projects from planning and tender through completion. Oversee design management, multidisciplinary coordination, governance, commercial performance, risk, safety, quality, and stakeholder relationships. Provide strategic technical leadership, support business development and work-winning activities, and mentor emerging professionals across the Sydney Highways team.

Lead CAD and drafting activities for energy infrastructure projects, including substations, transmission lines, civil and structural designs, layouts, schematics, and utility drawings. Coordinate multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams, review design documentation, manage delivery milestones, maintain quality and technical standards, and provide guidance, mentoring, and training on CAD tools and workflows. Support project delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and verification requirements.

Design and analyze flexible and rigid pavements for airports, ports, defence facilities, highways, and other transport infrastructure. Responsibilities include pavement calculations, modelling, rehabilitation and strengthening design, technical reports, specifications, drawings, and construction support. The role involves multidisciplinary collaboration and development of pavement engineering expertise under senior mentorship.

Lead pavement design and engineering for major aviation, ports, and transport infrastructure projects. Provide technical direction across design, rehabilitation, materials, investigation, and construction methodologies; review complex designs and documentation; interpret pavement testing data; advise clients; lead multidisciplinary teams; support bids and business growth; and mentor engineers across the Australian and New Zealand Pavements practice.

Leads mechanical engineering design and delivery for multidisciplinary building-services projects, particularly in defence and data-centre environments. Responsibilities include technical reviews, design calculations, drawings, quality control, client and stakeholder communication, project priority management, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires strong HVAC and mechanical-services design expertise, knowledge of Australian building-services standards, and experience delivering major projects.