Senior Drainage Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Role description:

Arcadis Global Excellence Centre (GEC) provides additional capacity for our Australian offices and supports the technical delivery of projects delivered through each of our regional offices. It also allows for development opportunities through international work experience.

• Senior Engineer role within global design consultancy firm

• Opportunity to work in Highways team delivering transport projects into Australia

• Based in Manila, Philippines

Job Purpose:

• Responsible for managing technical aspects of smaller and/or less complex tasks or components of larger tasks, meeting financial, quality, timeframe and health and safety objectives
• Typically assigned to provide a controlling technical role for single discipline on smaller and/or less complex tasks or elements of larger tasks
• May undertake a Task Management Role in line with Arcadis Task Manager Academy competence requirements
• Coordinate and manage small teams of single (own) discipline engineers and technicians
• Work to ensure maximum internal stakeholder satisfaction, championing care and proactively working with internal stakeholders

Role accountabilities:

• Apply Arcadis Health and Safety Principles during the planning and delivery of work
• Perform role in accordance with the Arcadis behavioral framework
• Support the management of performance and behaviors of more junior staff
• Promote the culture of the business
• Work in collaboration with other design disciplines applying engineering management solutions to ensure the integrity of the overall design
• Agree and implement task delivery approach in collaboration with Arcadis regional office colleagues
• Manage selected tasks, taking responsibility for resource allocation and successful delivery
• Provide management and technical advice to junior project team members
• Work alongside team leadership
• Operate at a level consistent with a senior engineering professional
• When appointed in the role of a Task Manager, take responsibility for assisting with the preparation of budgets, monitoring progress, identifying out of scope works and forecasting as appropriate
• When appointed in the role of a Task Manager, will be driving task performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring delivery is above expectation
• When appointed in the role of a Task Manager, will be communicating with team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, the delivery strategy, brief and project requirements  When appointed in the role of a Task Manager, will be managing the acquisition, deployment and management of resources for the task to ensure optimal resource allocation
• Provide specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise  Propose technical methodologies to deliver task requirements
• Work in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design  Undertake verification checking of elements of work
• Undertake a leading assurance role to quality-assure outputs (e.g. drawings, reports, specifications, etc.) to ensure that they meet or exceed expectations as well as Arcadis requirements, and that they comply with national standards and codes of practice
• Review completed engineering work to ensure that it meets specified standards
• Identify information sources and plan activities to obtain and process data
• Provide support to Project Management in Arcadis regional offices articulating necessary changes to task requirements and assisting with the quantification of the impact on schedule and fee
• Promote awareness of technical and commercial risk assessments and mitigation together with best value design options
• Monitor the performance of team members identifying and ensuring the resolution of any issues  Plan, schedule and monitor work to meet deadlines
• Present technical solutions to the team, Task Managers and Project Managers in Arcadis’ regional offices
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of deliverables on behalf of engineering discipline
• Perform quality control review of design calculations or drawings
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent and formally licensed to act as a professional engineer (if required in their Arcadis GEC country)

• Excellent written and oral English language

• Possess 5-10 years of relevant professional experience

• Strong drainage design experience in using Australian standards/codes, NSW Roads and Maritime Standards and specifications; experience in VIC and RMS will be highly regarded

• Demonstrated experience of working independently and the ability to work in a complex, challenging environment

• Proficient in Design Software (eg 12D, Storm and Sanitary, HEC-RAS, MUSIC)

• Knowledgeable in Autocadd or similar

• Local or Expatriate

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.

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