Principal Traffic and Transport Engineer

Company Description

• Transforming mobility and delivering sustainable outcomes

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.

AECOM delivers comprehensive services from creation to completion and beyond, our transportation professionals are constantly exploring new ways to navigate a challenging project.

A new underground rail link in Auckland. A subzero runway in Antarctica. Removal of 75 level crossings and building new station in Melbourne. The design of the Sydney Gateway Road project. In every region we deliver comprehensive solutions that connect people and places in forward thinking ways.

Play a key role in delivering the biggest transport projects in the country!

Job Description

AECOM Melbourne’s Transport Planning and Advisory team are a trusted advisor to the State’s most important and influential transport clients – the Department of Transport and Planning, Level Crossing Removal Project, Major Road Projects Victoria, V/Line, and more.

We are currently looking for an experienced Principal-level Transport and Traffic Engineer to join our team.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Lead and manage complex transport engineering and traffic impact assessment projects.
• Collaborate with transport sector teams (Highways, Aviation) and other market sectors (Energy, Environment, Buildings & Places) on project development and transport assessments.
• Take a leadership role in a multi-disciplinary team on major transport infrastructure projects in Victoria.
• Support business development to grow the team’s future work pipeline and foster key client relationships.
• Manage, train, and develop junior team members while ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards.

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.

Qualifications

What are we looking for from you?

• A degree in Transport/Traffic Engineering, Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, or similar.
• 10-15 years of experience in transport planning and/or traffic engineering.
• Proven track record of delivering projects within the Australian transport sector.
• Strong industry network and recognition as a specialist in your technical discipline.
• Strong communication skills, commitment to developing junior team members, and delivering optimal outcomes for clients.

You enjoy working in and leading teams, being accountable for your work, and influencing project performance. You enjoy developing and nurturing relationships within AECOM and across the industry, whether through project work, client initiatives or industry associations. You are positive, looking at challenges as opportunities to innovate, collaborate and grow. You are a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills. You care about delivering the right solution, on time, every time.

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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 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, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.