Senior Principal Engineer - Pavement

Our pavement team has several long-term State Government road upgrade projects, which provide solid base workload. In addition, they internally support our other teams with pavement designs for infrastructure-related projects, commercial and industrial developments, as well as for airside and ports-related projects.

As valued members of the pavement team, opportunities exist to be involved in projects from the earliest stages of planning, ground investigation, design, and all the way through to construction and operational management phases. You will assist with the business development by preparation of bids and proposals and attend meetings with contractors and clients (both external and internal). You will be expected to promote the implementation of innovations and sustainable technologies within AECOM and the industry.

Your demonstrated experience will enable you to immediately contribute to the team. However, ongoing personal development is a major driver of the AECOM business.

About You

Your role will include new pavement design, rehabilitation design, testing and pavement management advisory services. As part of this role you will be given the opportunity to work on a range of assignments to aid in your professional development.

You will also assist in preparation of bids and proposals and attend meetings with contractors and clients, both external and internal and work on multi-disciplinary project design teams.

Technical/Professional Expertise :

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Relevant postgraduate qualifications would be advantageous.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of pavement engineering and earthworks.
• Experienced in the provision and management of project design services, including managing pavement assessment (destructive and non-destructive methods), design of new pavements and rehabilitation of existing pavements (flexible mandatory, rigid advantageous).
• Experience across highways, industrial, maritime and airfields sectors would be advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience in using pavement design software such as linear elastic pavement modelling and back-calculation software.
• Experience in pavement management systems such as dTims will be preferred.
• Experience with Australian standards for pavement design will be preferred

Skills

• Demonstrated experience in complex projects and meeting delivery requirements.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen

Essential Performance Criteria

• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills who is able to work independently and collaboratively with international teams.
• High level attention to detail and accuracy.
• Diligent and able to work consistently to deadlines under tight time-frames.
• High level problem solving skills & judgment capability.
• Takes accountability for assigned work.
• Able to maintain confidentiality.
• Well presented, with a professional attitude.
• Client focused (both internal and external clients).