Associate Director (Mechanical Engineering)

Company Description

Bold ideas bring transformative solutions.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

Our global Buildings and Places business line brings together a versatile and collaborative term of urban planning, building design and engineering professionals working to create liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities. Our extensive expertise cover urbanism and planning, architecture, building and systems engineering, and cost, project, and construction management.  

Together with our clients, we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including, social infrastructure, transit, technology and logistics, and commercial and corporate real estate, whilst focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

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

Job Description

The Role

Due to a healthy pipeline of work, our Brisbane team are looking for an Associate Director (Mechanical) to join our Building Services Team.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Demonstrated experience in managing complex projects and meeting delivery requirements 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. Foster and build relationships with clients securing a strong pipeline of work.
• Work effectively within a team of multi-disciplinary engineers on a range of projects, using your technical expertise to produce comprehensive documentation and drive quality through review of design calculations, specifications, models and drawings.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior engineers within the business when preparing technical design documentation.

Qualifications

The following qualifications are highly desired, but if you don't tick all the boxes, you may have other strengths and still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered. 

What are we looking for from you?

• Ideally, 15+ years’ experience working for a Building Services consultancy or have significant design experience within the Mechanical Contracting field, with RPEQ qualification or Chartership with a relevant professional body.
• A proven record in technical design and project delivery whilst maintaining and enhancing client relationships.
• In-depth understanding of Building Services projects and Standards to impart your technical knowledge to clients, junior engineers and broader teams on a range of major projects.
• Exposure to running multiple technical projects simultaneously with demonstrable design experience across a variety of market sectors.
• Work with other senior leaders across the business to actively participate in bids and tenders.
• Excellent communication and people skills with the passion and ability to mentor and train younger Engineers within the business.
• Drive quality, innovation and efficiency improvements within the team.

Join us and let’s get started.

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Additional Information

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses.  Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.