Senior Technical Officer - Digital Engineering (Energy)

AECOM is seeking a Senior Technical Officer - Digital Engineering in Sydney, Australia, to support energy and power projects. Responsibilities include leading drafting for substation projects, producing design drawings using CAD software, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring high technical design standards. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and strong communication skills. This role involves collaboration with local and international teams.
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Job Description

Due to recent project wins, our Energy Team in Sydney have created an opportunity for a ‘Senior Technical Officer’ to join the Digital Engineering team.

Put your career into high gear, in this opportunity to join a Fortune 500 organisation where you can thrive, fully leverage your strengths, feel heard, and contribute to AECOM’s mission to build a better world.

This role within our Energy end-market provides design documentation delivery solutions to a broad range of energy and power authority sector and renewables projects, across many clients.

Some of your day-to-day tasks will include:
• Be drafting lead for substation projects. Coordinating all discipline such and primary, secondary, transmission line, civil, & structural to meet milestone deliverables.
• Work as part of a team producing substation design drawings using CAD software’s AutoCAD and Microstation in accordance with client standards.
• Experience in using common data environment such as ProjectWise or BIM360.
• Electrical design models and drawings including substation layouts and sections for equipment and associated utilities, set outs, single line diagrams, secondary schematics.
• Complete drafting reviews on design drawings prepared by others in the team
• Mentor/support juniors in the drafting team and wider Energy team. 
• Working co-operatively with team members whilst liaising with engineers and drafters (both locally and internationally) to ensure timely delivery of design deliverables.
• Maintain, developing, and retaining the highest standard of technical design skills

Qualifications

As a Senior Technical Officer, you will possess the following:
• Minimum of 5 years' relevant working experience.
• Demonstrated experience in design drafting for HV and / or traction substations.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to develop concept designs to meet industry standards from scratch with minimum supervision, ensuring innovation and safety is at the forefront of all early discussions.
• Drive to contribute to digital transformation for 3D modelling and digital twin.

Additional Information

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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.

ReqID: J10116916

Business Line: Energy

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ANZ

Career Area: Digital & Engineering Technology

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Australia Pty Ltd