Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Due to client demand we are expanding our Ports & Maritime capability and invite a Senior Structural / Maritime Engineer to join our Adelaide team. This role exists to support a growing pipeline of coastal, port and maritime projects across ANZ, delivering robust design, assessment and documentation with a focus on quality, safety and constructability. You will work with experienced engineers, contribute to multidisciplinary deliverables and mentor early‑career colleagues.

What you’ll do

- Deliver specific and moderate portions of broader engineering assignments under the guidance of senior technical leaders.
- Gather and correlate engineering data using established procedures, ensuring traceability and quality.




- Complete detailed and routine engineering calculations and relatively simple tests to support design development.
- Propose approaches to new problems by adapting standard procedures or methods developed on prior assignments.
- Identify and resolve discrepancies in results, escalating risks and issues appropriately.
- Provide guidance and day‑to‑day support to entry‑level engineers and graduates.
- Work to agreed budgets and schedules with minimal supervision, prioritising tasks to meet milestones.
- Independently complete primary design elements for maritime and structural works (e.g., wharves, jetties, dolphins, seawalls, berths).
- Participate in interdisciplinary reviews to coordinate civil, structural, geotechnical, and M&E; inputs.
- Develop construction cost estimates and estimates of technical effort for defined scopes.
- Use your expertise across all steps to complete the discipline component of Plans, Specifications & Estimates (PS&E;) packages (or equivalent design packages).
- Perform quality control reviews of design calculations, drawings and reports.
- Prepare technical specification sections and contribute to design documentation aligned to relevant Australian standards.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or equivalent).
- Experience in structural and/or maritime engineering.
- Proficient in design and analysis of marine structures and foundations,



with familiarity in relevant Australian standards and guidelines.
- Competent with structural analysis and design tools and in preparing calculations, drawings and specifications.
- Robust problem‑solving skills and attention to detail, with a focus on buildability and safety in design.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and collaborate within multidisciplinary teams.
- Chartered (CPEng) or progressing toward chartered status is advantageous.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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.

📌 Senior Structural (Adelaide)
🏢 Aecom
📍 Adelaide