Senior Hydraulic Engineer

Senior Hydraulic Engineer

As we look to grow our Buildings Services Team, we are currently looking for a Senior Hydraulic Engineer to join the team, based in Brisbane or Melbourne. How you'll make a difference:

• Lead the delivery of technically complex hydraulic designs across major building projects, ensuring compliance with NCC, Australian Standards, and local authority requirements.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineers, technicians, and designers to solve technical challenges and ensure integrated, high-quality project outcomes.
• Partner with project managers and team leaders to align on priorities, resourcing, and program delivery, contributing to project success and team performance.
• Engage directly with external clients to define project scopes, manage expectations, and deliver practical engineering solutions.
• Mentor and support junior engineers and designers through technical guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing to build team capability and excellence.

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.

• Ideally, 5+ years' professional experience in building services or hydraulic engineering consultancy, ideally with Chartered status or working toward professional registration (e.g., CPEng, RPEQ, or Registered Design Practitioner).
• Proven ability to produce high-quality technical documentation, specifications, reports, and drawings for hydraulic systems across a range of building typologies.
• Strong knowledge of the NCC, relevant Australian Standards, Fire and Rescue requirements, and local authority statutory approvals processes.
• Proficiency with engineering and documentation tools such as MS Office, Bluebeam, and relevant hydraulic design software.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate across disciplines and interact confidently with clients and internal teams.

Please note, due to the nature of the projects Australian Citizenship is required, with previous or current defense clearance highly regarded.

Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options

Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year

Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

Continuous learning and growth - lunch and learns, professional development courses, financial study assistance, 5 days paid study leave, global career opportunities

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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.

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.