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Job Description

Aecom Kelowna is hiring a Senior Highway Engineer – Drainage

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide and/or supervise the delivery of professional hydrology services, technical specifications, analysis, designs, and reports for stormwater management system.

• Serve as a fully capable professional and engineer of record with advance knowledge in planning and design to facilitate high quality and cost-effective solutions for water resource and management.

• Lead the analysis for hydrology and watershed studies including hydraulic modelling for highway design projects and prepare technical reports.

• Provide or lead designs for overflow mitigation and control measures and design stream crossings, ditches, culverts and retention systems for complex, multi-modal and major highway projects.

• Provide professional advisory services for hydrological impacts and design solutions to clients, project teams and other partners.

• Provide or lead hydrology design deliverables through internal and external sources including designs, cost estimates, calculations, sketches, diagrams, schematic and working drawings.

• Review the deliverables for accuracy, completeness, functionality, and adherence to BC Provincial standards, procedures, and requirements.

• Supervise licensed professionals and technical staff including assignment of work, mentoring, performance plans and development in the field of water resource engineering per provincial standards and best practices.

• Manage concurrent projects of substantial scopes and developing hydrological design intent, constructability, project specifications and directions to project teams.

• Lead proposals and teaming for design assignments through collaboration with other business lines within AECOM.

• Project manage assignments from planning through design and construction including leading project meetings, developing scope, schedule & budget and collaborating with design team and client.

• Prepare or lead the delivery of status reports for hydrology works for client and project teams throughout the design and construction phases.

• Perform or lead field reviews and/or coordinate site construction activities ensuring compliance with construction contract documents and design intents.

• Provide site assessments on a short notice with ability to travel province wide for emergency responses post mudslides, flooding, and extreme weather events.

• Assist with the preparation of regulatory requirements, permits, environmental assessments and stakeholder consultation.

• Propose opportunities and assist with business development and highway engineering team building in BC.

• Implement corporate policies related to quality management and sustainable legacies while supporting AECOM’s vision, values, and key business development priorities.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering with a focus in water resource engineering and management.

• Minimum 8 years experience with direct responsibility for highway design projects.

• Registered or immediately eligible for registration with Engineers and Geoscientists of BC.

• Proficiency in the use of HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS or other similar tools and applications for hydraulic modelling.

• Experienced with the application of Water Sustainability and Fisheries Acts for highway design projects.

• Experienced with BC’s climate change guidelines and resiliency strategy for highway design projects.

• Experienced with the applications of BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Provincial Standard Specifications and BC Supplement to the TAC Geometric Design Guide for Canadian Roads.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to assist other projects including contaminated sites, remediation, groundwater flow models and hydrogeologic characterization.

• Extensive experience with BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) projects.

• Experienced working with Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium tools.

• Experience working with and providing advice and counsel to government clients and a variety of stakeholders.

• Familiarity with Master Municipal Construction Documents and BC Building Codes.

• Ability to interpret application of the BC Motor Vehicle and BC Transportation Acts.

• Knowledge and experience in developing and interpreting highway engineering policies, practices, procedures, standards, and regulations in BC.

Additional Information

• Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position.

Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $150,000.00 - $175,000.00.

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.

ReqID: J10110895

Business Line: Transportation

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Canada

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid