Total 25 job vacancies by AECOM

Join AECOM’s Transport Group in South-East Queensland as a Technical Director, with a strong focus on project management. You will step into a dynamic role that blends leadership, innovation and project delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to guide a talented multidisciplinary group of professionals as a project leader for the delivery of complex, region-shaping projects.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of major transport infrastructure projects. Your project management skills will be crucial in ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, coordinate with various stakeholders, and implement best practices in project management to drive efficiency and excellence in project outcomes.
• Cultivate a culture of excellence, inspiring teams to deliver high-quality results that achieve or exceed client expectations.
• Engage regularly with clients, allowing you to forge strong relationships and truly understand their needs, which is essential for driving satisfaction and securing repeat business. Your reputation for delivering exceptional results will help enhance AECOM's standing in the market.
• Identify opportunities to expand our portfolio, lead proposal efforts, and enhance AECOM’s presence in the market. Your skills and vision will be instrumental in winning new projects and shaping the future of our strategic initiatives.

If you’re a motivated leader with a passion for delivering impactful solutions, this position offers you the chance to make a significant difference in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Join us, and let’s create a legacy of excellence together. 

What will a day in this role look like: 

• Lead delivery of major transport infrastructure projects, focusing on culture, project performance, client relationships, and contractor relationships.

• Work with an industry-leading team on a broad range of transport infrastructure projects that shape cities and regions, including some of Queensland’s largest road and passenger transport projects, and indeed Australia-wide. 
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration with our multidisciplinary teams. 
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, customers and partners. 

• Influence and lead strategy development and execution to achieve business success. 

• Lead change and drive productivity by championing our digital delivery initiatives, ensuring the integration of cutting-edge technologies and innovative practices to enhance project outcomes.

Join AECOM’s Transport Group in South-East Queensland as a Technical Director, with a strong focus on design management. You will step into a dynamic role that blends leadership, innovation and project delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to guide a talented multidisciplinary group of professionals as a project leader for the delivery of complex, region-shaping projects.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Oversee the design, coordination, and successful delivery of major transport infrastructure projects. Your technical management skills will be crucial in ensuring that designs are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality. You will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams and implement best practices in design management to drive efficiency and excellence in project outcomes.
• Cultivate a culture of excellence, inspiring teams to deliver high-quality results that achieve or exceed client expectations.
• Engage regularly with clients, allowing you to forge strong relationships and truly understand their needs, which is essential for driving satisfaction and securing repeat business. Your reputation for delivering exceptional results will help enhance AECOM's standing in the market.
• Identify opportunities to expand our portfolio, lead proposal efforts, and enhance AECOM’s presence in the market. Your skills and vision will be instrumental in winning new projects and shaping the future of our strategic initiatives.

If you’re a motivated leader with a passion for delivering impactful solutions, this position offers you the chance to make a significant difference in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Join us, and let’s create a legacy of excellence together. 

What will a day in this role look like: 

• Lead the design and coordination of major transport infrastructure projects, focusing on technical management, project performance, client relationships, and contractor relationships.
• Work with an industry-leading team on a broad range of transport infrastructure projects that shape cities and regions, including some of Queensland’s largest road and passenger transport projects, and indeed Australia-wide. 
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration with our multidisciplinary teams.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, customers, and partners.
• Influence and lead strategy development and execution to achieve business success.
• Lead change and drive productivity by championing our digital delivery initiatives, ensuring the integration of cutting-edge technologies and innovative practices to enhance project outcomes.

We are seeking an experienced business leader who is ready to make an impact in our Bridges team. In this pivotal leadership role, you will oversee the technical aspects of bridge design, construction, and maintenance projects, ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety, and innovation while continuing to nurture our current clients and build upon our existing network.

In this role you will:

• Lead and mentor a team of bridge engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering professional development
• Develop and maintain relationships with key clients, partners, and regulatory bodies while aligning projects with organizational goals
• Oversee the design, engineering, and construction of complex bridge structures, ensuring compliance with standards and implementing best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and clients to deliver successful bridge projects
• Conduct technical reviews, quality assurance checks, and represent the organization in industry forums and client meetings
• Drive change and innovation within the team with the aim of being a market leader

Due to ongoing growth of the team, our Brisbane Building Services Team are looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer to join their team. This presents a unique opportunity to work on a range of projects across Healthcare, Defence, Industrial, Transport, Infrastructure and the 2032 Olympics.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Gain exposure to client management and further develop your design / project management skills by acting as Electrical Lead on  a variety of projects.
• Review and sign off on electrical design documentation of Electrical Building Services including electrical power distribution and reticulation systems, lighting (incl. emergency) design, standby power generation (incl. renewable-type, UPS and Generator) and lightning protection.
• Work on a variety of interesting projects across the full project lifecycle; from tender preparation and design delivery through to construction support across an array of sectors
• Mentor junior engineers, assisting them with their professional development whilst working closely with other design disciplines in project teams.
• Provide assistance and contribute technically to the development of engineering proposals across bids and tenders across major projects with our Building Services Group. 

As a result of significant project pipeline, AECOM’s 'Resources and Industrial' (R&I) team in our Brisbane office have created a fantastic opportunity for an Associate Director of Electrical Engineering specialising in Hazardous Areas.

You will be a Technical advisor and leader to AECOM Australia wide and New Zealand in Hazardous areas. Advising clients and supporting internal projects across a wide range of industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, coal, defence, wastewater, gas and bulk fuel distribution systems.

Main Responsibilities

• Serves as lead engineer on mid- to large size projects.
• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
• Approve and sign off on work within Hazardous Area classification
• Provides technical expertise for studies and design efforts.
• Performs quality control reviews of work developed by others.
• Participates in development of technical proposals.
• Provides estimates for the engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements on large projects.

As a Senior Talent Management Specialist, you will excel in project management and have a proven track record across talent management and learning and development initiatives. You will have excellent facilitation skills and enjoy delivering training as much as planning and managing projects. You are a great collaborator and team player and understand that for you to succeed you must closely partner across HR and business lines. You have passion for providing solutions to increase capability of people and are highly organised and able to work in a high paced environment.

This is a Fixed Term role (18-24 months) and is open to the following locations with current AECOM offices- Brisbane, Sydney, Auckland and Melbourne.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Develop and implement talent management strategies aligned with AECOM’s goals.
• Collaborate with leadership to identify staffing needs and build talent pipelines.
• Oversee employee development programs, performance management, and succession planning.
• Analyse workforce trends and provide data-driven insights to enhance talent processes.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Due to a number of key pursuits in the pipeline, our Buildings & Places team are looking for a Bid & Proposal Coordinator, based in Brisbane. This opportunity will be heavily involved in the preparation and coordination of bids for major projects across Brisbane Olympics, aviation, health, defence, transport and community projects. You will be part of a high-performing team working with key stakeholders across our building services, cost management, architecture and planning business units. 

What will a day in this role look like:

• Work closely with technical leads to manage the bid process. You will be heavily involved in returning project schedules, producing bid content, bid writing, collating project team CVs and organisation charts.
• Use your experience in bid management, alongside latest AI Technology, to coordinate and write compelling content for submissions and presentations, working closely with Practice Leads across various disciplines.
• Utilise your organisation and planning skills to liaise with multiple stakeholders, collate information on previous bids to generate high-quality, up to date content for our major pursuits and bids.
• Coordinate and lead strategic workshops with potential bid partners, clients and other stakeholders.  Being a point of interface and collaboration with these parties.
• Administer existing and new bid and proposal content for Buildings and Places, utilise existing tools, databases and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to maintain up to date content that can be used by a range of team members within B+P.

As a result of significant project pipeline, AECOM’s 'Resources and Industrial' (R&I) team in our Brisbane office have created a fantastic opportunity for an Electrical Engineer to support the successful delivery of a range of Mining and Industrial projects across the region.

Working as part of a dynamic, Tier 1 consulting environment, you will have the opportunity to work on a range of large multidisciplinary projects within the Mining, Industrial and Transport sectors.

Our team of industry experts and network of technical specialists will support the development of your technical and project management capabilities, giving you the opportunity to work across all project phases from studies through to detailed engineering and execution.

Main Responsibilities

• Work with our Tier 1 clients across our mining, industrial and heavy industry projects providing high-quality electrical design solutions from concept through to commissioning.
• Create technical reports, project documentation and design solutions under the guidance of Senior Engineers within the team
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams (mechanical, civil etc) to coordinate electrical aspects of projects ensuring timelines, cost and quality standards are met.

As a result of significant project pipeline, AECOM’s 'Resources and Industrial' (R&I) team in our Brisbane office have created a great opportunity for an Electrical Engineer with ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) experience to support the successful delivery of a range of projects across the region.

In joining our dynamic team, you will contribute to the planning, design, and delivery of Intelligent Transport projects, road lighting and smart lighting systems.

You will be a key team member, working with other highly skilled engineers, helping us to deliver a better world for our clients and the communities in which we operate.

Main Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to the detailed design of a range of projects across industrial, mining and transport projects using your experience of ITS / Road Lighting.
• Work with our Tier 1 clients on a range of projects, playing your part in the design, construction and commissioning of ITS and road lighting projects.
• Support the Senior Engineers within the team with the coordination and management of clients, contractors and multi-disciplinary engineers to ensure the timely delivery of ITS and road lighting projects.
• Ensure all electrical designs comply with relevant standards, codes and regulations ensuring excellent project outcomes for our clients.

We are seeking a Senior (or Principal) Town Planner who has demonstrated experience and proven ability in leading and contributing towards this range of exciting projects. The successful candidate will have a passion for cities and keen to work in a collaborative environment with our team of town planners, landscape architects and architects, and a range of scientists and engineers across the business.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone who is wanting to accelerate their career and grow their technical and professional skills across a range of development and infrastructure projects.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Use your knowledge and technical experience to interpret and apply planning legislation and planning schemes across a variety of multi-disciplinary projects, standalone planning advisory projects and technical studies.
• Lead various strategic planning projects across regional planning initiatives, precinct and master planning by providing technical oversight and ensuring projects run to schedule and budget, ensuring high-quality outcomes for our clients.
• In your client-facing role, deliver high-quality project outcomes and generate future business for the local planning team. Actively participate in the development of high-quality fee proposals and bids.
• Mentor junior planners within the team, aiding with their professional and technical development.

Due to ongoing growth of the team, our Brisbane Building Services Team are looking for an ambitious Electrical Engineer to join their team. This presents a unique opportunity to work on a range of projects across Healthcare, Defence, Industrial, Transport, Infrastructure and 2032 Olympics.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Preparation of electrical design documentation of Electrical Building Services including electrical power distribution and reticulation systems, lighting (incl. emergency) design, standby power generation (incl. renewable-type, UPS and Generator) and lightning protection
• Work on interesting projects across the full project lifecycle from tender preparation and design delivery through to construction support across an array of sectors
• Coordinate with other design disciplines in team environments working in a supportive project environment with opportunities to elevate your electrical skills as a project Design Coordinator
• Provide assistance and contribute technically to the development of engineering proposals
• Have the opportunity to develop Design/Project Management skills including multidisciplinary design coordination and gain exposure to client management.

Join our Brisbane Energy team in delivering some of the most exciting Transmission and distribution projects across Australia and New Zealand. This is a chance to lead projects and partner with some of our key clients while benefiting from our diverse career pathways in Energy and taking part in some of the world most iconic renewable energy projects!

We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

This would suit an experienced Engineer with prior experience in managing a team, or the willingness to do so.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Act as Technical Lead on projects including managing delivery, verifying detailed design and monitor project measures ensuring on-time, under budget high-quality delivery to our clients.
• Work closely with our multidisciplinary team of Engineers in a client-facing role fostering and developing relationships, on a variety of projects across various market sectors including; transmission and distribution, renewables, traction power an building services sector.
• Overall team management of the secondary systems team, including work and resource allocation, oversight of projects and helping the team develop professionally. 
• Collaborate with the team, and senior leadership to develop innovative solutions to our clients assisting with bids, tenders and business development activities.

• Leveraging your change expertise to drive transformational projects and achieve impactful results.
• Applying strong project management skills to handle scheduling and budgeting, ensuring smooth execution across initiatives.
• Influencing and engaging with senior leadership to align their support with strategic goals.
• Building strong relationships and fostering a collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and heard.
• Adapting with agility to a global environment, working flexible hours while maintaining high delivery standards.

What will a day in this role look like: 

• Deliver best practice environmental impact assessment and strategic advisory services for all phases of our client’s projects from strategic business case and planning approvals, through to construction and operation.
• Coordinate a range of projects (across energy, transport, Defence and utilities industries), organising resources, budgets and timelines.
• Support the development of reports, application material and proposals.
• Build productive relationships with our clients, design teams and technical specialists.
• Be a part of a supportive and passionate team of environmental planning and assessment professionals.

As a result of continued growth in workload and project opportunities across transportation projects, AECOM have an opportunity for an experienced Technical Director to provide support on a range of transformational transportation projects across Australia and New Zealand.

Based in any one of our SEQ offices (Brisbane, Maroochydore or Gold Coast) and working within an industry leading team, the core focus of this role will be the building and strengthening of AECOM’s transport infrastructure delivery teams and market share in SEQ and across ANZ through provision of excellence in project delivery, technical leadership and coaching, development and mentoring our colleagues. 

We are looking for a Technical Director with proven TMR and local government experience (or experience delivering for interstate or international state road agencies) in governance or leadership roles leading multi-disciplinary teams in pursuit of, and in the delivery phase of design for major transport infrastructure projects.

• Lead strategic planning for high profiles projects to secure State and Commonwealth approvals
• Manage the delivery of complex approvals on major projects, including coordination of multidisciplinary technical teams, environmental impact assessment and approval processes
• Proven technical leadership and confidence managing multidisciplinary technical teams to identify risks, solve problems, communicate change through planning, design and approval processes.
• Provide technical advice and strategic planning for impact assessment and approvals across a diverse range of projects and environmental services
• Manage resources, delegating activities, monitoring and managing project budgets (with support as required)
• Leading business development activities, including proposals

What will a day in this role look like:

• Leading key projects with major clients throughout Queensland
• Building new client networks and leading business development to build client engagement across renewable energy.
• Mentoring, developing and supporting the Transmission Lines team and providing solutions across technical project challenges.
• Review and deliver concept and detailed design of Transmission Lines using PLS-CADD software

Due to a healthy pipeline of work, our Buildings & Places group are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join their team, based in Brisbane. This role would suit someone who possesses excellent technical and design skills, with the ability to deliver projects across a range of market sectors.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Utilise your extensive design experience to facilitate high-quality and cost-effective project delivery on health, defence, transport and other building projects across ANZ.
• Lead Mechanical design and project delivery for our major client projects including the technical review of projects.
• Work effectively within a team of multi-disciplinary engineers on a range of projects, using your technical expertise to drive quality through review of design calculations, specifications and drawings. 
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior engineers within the business when preparing technical design documentation.

An exceptional opportunity to start your career as a Graduate Environmental Scientist / Engineer / Geologist working in the Geosciences and Remediation Services (GRS) team, part of the broader environment team at AECOM.

As a Graduate Environmental / Contaminated Land Consultant, you will primarily be assisting with fieldwork and data collection from a wide range of remote client sites, supporting the team with land assessments whilst collaborating with internal teams, subcontractors and clients. You will also assist with technical reporting on surface water and groundwater monitoring and assessment, contamination investigations and remediation projects of verying size and complexity. 

Our Graduate Program

Our Growing Professional Skills (GPS) graduate program is designed to help you bridge the gap between formal education and the workplace. The program is spread across two years, drawing on a range of personal development activities, exposure to other graduates and business leaders, and a range of topics designed to grow your business and professional skills.

Along with local site visits, technical seminars, mentoring, and internal and external training, AECOM connects you with leading local and global networks that help you learn, grow, and develop.

As an added incentive, your involvement in the GPS program is fully endorsed for those seeking Professional accreditation. If you decide to do additional studies, we will help you examine your options and identify areas of specialisation to support you in your career.

• Performs specific and limited portions of a broader assignment of an experienced engineer.
• Gathers and correlates basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures.
• Works on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations and relatively simple tests.
• Proposes approach to solve new problems encountered.
• Identifies discrepancies in results.
• Provides guidance to entry level engineers.
• Performs work in accordance with agreed upon budget and schedule with moderate supervision.

This is a casual part time role (2 – 3 days a week) for approximately 3 months with the potential for longer term employment.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Collecting environmental samples including soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater from sites using various environmental sampling techniques.
• Organising and preparing tasks prior to field work
• Office based data management and reporting.

The role includes working amongst a team of experienced environmental professionals and alongside our clients, while learning first-hand from our in-house technical leaders. There will be opportunities to learn and be mentored by a team who are focussed on your career success. We live by our cultural standards: support your team, embrace new and different and make it happen!

Join us and let’s get started.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Leading the development and enhancement of our engineering geology expertise.
• Direct and mentor geotechnical investigations teams, ensuring the execution of high-quality fieldwork and data collection.
• Leading and reviewing geotechnical interpretations providing critical insights and recommendations.
• Take a leadership role in the preparation and review of bids and proposals, incorporating geotechnical considerations.

What will a day in this role look like: 

• Develop pursuit strategies, technical concepts, and propose technical approaches. 

• Build strategic plans and relationships with public and private clients and industry leaders. 

• Establish and maintain client relationships. 

• Attend industry events, serve on panels and foster the AECOM mine water and tailings engineering practice. 

• Help grow the Mine Water and Tailings engineering practice in Australia and New Zealand. 

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.   

What will a day in this role look like:

• Manage, plan and deliver a range of projects for Education and Health clients across Queensland varying in size and scope.
• Guide and oversee the establishment of the project governance structure (budget, scope and schedule) alongside managing project budgets including accurate and timely invoicing, variation management and cash collection.
• Assume the role of Superintendent Representative across projects, managing the contractual obligations on behalf of our clients.
• Manage and mentor junior Project Management resources across a range of projects to help develop the capability and capacity of the team. .
• Meet with clients, contractors and industry stakeholders to facilitate technical discussions, promote AECOM’s client-centric culture and ensure our client’s project expectations are satisfied.
• Prepare and execute Project Plans during Opportunity and Contracted Phases including; scope & approach, engineering, deliverables management, resources, procurement, budget, scheduling, change management, reporting and project closeout.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Support Bid Managers to compete planning and go/no-go meetings for key bids, convert opportunities to bids, develop pursuit plans, assist in developing and monitoring bid schedules.
• Contribute to winning bid strategies, providing insight from previous winning proposals and share useful re-usable content with the pursuit teams.
• Coordinate proposal responses, working closely with technical team leaders and marketing team.
• Be based in our Brisbane Head Office, or Regional Queensland offices in Mackay or Townsville.