Responsibilities
- Lead a project team of junior, mid-level and senior Structures staff and provide mentorship, direction, and motivation on a daily basis and in a strategic manner to ensure AECOM remains an employer of choice for Structural skills.
- Effectively bring project teams together to work toward a shared goal ensuring the team’s results exceed the total achievements of the individuals.
- Mentor technical leadership talent and train staff, ensuring discipline skills are up to date and industry relevant.
- Create an environment where the team can operate with the highest standards of integrity.
- Coach to develop and maximize strengths of team members.
- Hold themselves and others to high standards.
- Assist with developing market sector intelligence including industry assessments, trends in key markets and client opportunities for investment and winning work.
- Assist with developing a robust technical network within AECOM globally to provide clients with the most appropriate technical solutions and is part of the global technical practice teams.
- Participate in preparing major bids and proposals on the technical side whilst supporting business development initiatives through their technical expertise.
- Responsible for technically leading aspects of projects, supporting Project Managers and technical teams to deliver within scope, budget, timeframe, and high-quality standards.
- Conduct Design and Drawing reviews to ensure accurate implementation of the scheme design into Detail Design and from Detail Design to Drawings.
- Ensure that projects are delivered within the client budget and schedule.
- Manage, co-ordinate and resource structural teams.
- Have a working knowledge of Revit, Tekla Structural Designer and other associated design programmes.
- Have a working knowledge of running a structural engineering team in a multi-disciplinary team environment where all project drawings are generated using BIM tools (Autodesk Revit).
- Interface with clients on schedules, meetings, and issues (manage client expectations and perceptions).
- Anticipate potential schedule or priority delays and initiate plans for alternative actions.
- Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields.
- Act independently on technical matters and demonstrate innovation to deliver technical excellence.
- Perform technical quality reviews and serve as Lead Verifier on projects confirming that the technical approach satisfies the client scope of services and expectations.
- Support digital transformation strategy and implementation and embrace change within the discipline.
- Ensure assigned teams effectively coordinate with the other disciplines to ensure there are no design gaps providing fully coordinated design deliverables.
- This includes the support of the construction supervision teams.
Requirements
- The Associate Engineer is a senior technical resource and serves as the technical advisor for the team.
- Plans works, provides technical reviews and quality management.
- Shares technical expertise and experience with others in the company via internal technical communication and presentations.
- Responsible for the development of high-quality design outputs.
- Able to do hands-on design.
- The Associate Engineer will have superb interpersonal and leadership skills, a growth mindset, attention to detail and an excellent work ethic.
- The Associate Engineer will serve as lead engineer on mid-to-large size projects, providing specialised technical input to studies and design for specific areas of expertise.
- This role requires a broad, multi-disciplinary knowledge of engineering.
