Jobs at AECOM

Leads independent certification, verification, assurance, audits, inspections, and technical oversight across major civil infrastructure design, construction, and completion phases. Acts as the authorised representative of the Independent Certifier, interfaces with the Principal and Contractor, owns certification processes, maintains verification plans, and leads a multidisciplinary technical team while ensuring contractual, statutory, technical, and professional standards.

Leads AECOM’s network planning capability across Australia and New Zealand, providing strategic and technical leadership across transmission, distribution, power systems, and grid integration. The role involves leading multidisciplinary teams, advising utilities and energy stakeholders, shaping network investment strategies, developing client relationships, supporting business growth, mentoring technical leaders, and delivering high-quality projects supporting decarbonization and energy security.

Coordinates and manages complex bids and proposals throughout the full lifecycle, including tenders, interviews, debriefs, and submissions. Translates technical offerings into persuasive content, manages multiple deadlines and stakeholders, ensures editorial quality and compliance, and supports pursuit capability development through collaboration and AI-enabled efficiency.

Lead mechanical 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 delivery, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires extensive HVAC and mechanical engineering design experience, knowledge of Australian building-services standards, and the ability to manage priorities across major projects.

Lead design package delivery for major bridges, ports, marine structures, and associated civil infrastructure projects. Manage scope, program, quality, and delivery outcomes while coordinating structural, civil, geotechnical, marine, and temporary works inputs. Act as the primary interface between design, construction, clients, contractors, and project stakeholders, ensuring integrated, constructible solutions across complex alliance, joint venture, and design-and-construct environments.

Lead overhead wiring and rail electrification engineering across major heavy rail, metro, and transit projects in Australia and New Zealand. Provide technical design input, assurance, quality reviews, specifications, governance, budgeting, and stakeholder support. Mentor engineers, contribute to business development and proposals, maintain client relationships, and shape OHW technical capability and strategy. Sydney Trains experience is highly preferred.

Deliver power system studies for renewable energy grid connections, including load flow, short circuit, arc-flash, stability, and reliability analyses. Prepare technical reports, provide evidence-based recommendations, support proposals and project planning, and collaborate with clients, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams. The role also includes mentoring engineers and applying tools such as PowerFactory, ETAP, and PSCAD across generation, transmission, distribution, and storage projects.

Partners with Water business leaders to develop workforce plans, provide talent-market intelligence, and lead end-to-end recruitment for specialist and leadership roles. Builds proactive talent pipelines, supports international hiring and visa pathways, uses analytics and emerging recruitment technologies, improves hiring processes, and advises senior stakeholders on strategic workforce decisions.

Leads hydrogeological investigations and groundwater studies across mining, infrastructure, and environmental projects in Western Australia. Responsibilities include overseeing drilling, aquifer testing, groundwater monitoring and sampling; developing conceptual models; preparing assessments, regulatory applications, reports, and proposals; and managing project workstreams, budgets, schedules, and deliverables. The role also involves client and regulator engagement, multidisciplinary collaboration, fieldwork, and mentoring junior hydrogeologists.

Leads technical and commercial advisory services for utility-scale BESS projects across sizing, procurement, contracting, design, commissioning, and operation. Develops technical requirements and performance guarantees, evaluates and normalizes vendor bids, supports contract negotiations, reviews system architecture and interfaces, and verifies performance through testing. Advises clients on lifecycle value, warranties, degradation, augmentation, risk allocation, and long-term service obligations while coordinating multidisciplinary specialists.

Lead medium-voltage electrical design for utility-scale wind, solar, battery storage, and hybrid projects. Responsibilities include developing design bases, single-line diagrams, cable and transformer studies, PowerFactory models, protection philosophies, equipment specifications, and commissioning plans. The role provides technical ownership across feasibility, detailed design, procurement, construction, and commissioning while coordinating multidisciplinary teams, reviewing EPC and OEM designs, engaging clients, and mentoring engineers.

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.

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.

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.