Lead Airside Design Engineer - Pavement Design

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s making your commute faster, ensuring a consistent supply of electricity, providing access to clean water, or reshaping city skylines, our work supports people and communities to strive.

Our clients rely on us to assemble the finest people, projects, technical expertise, and digital solutions for our work in transport, buildings, water, the environment, and renewable energy. We're one global team – 47,000 members strong - unified by a shared goal: to deliver a better world.

Here, you're given the freedom to thrive in a world filled with opportunities.

We'll provide the flexibility you need to do your best work through hybrid work options. Whether you're stationed at an AECOM office, a remote location, or at a client's site, you'll be operating in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and an innovative mindset are celebrated.

You'll help us nurture a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion – a safe and respectful working place where we encourage everyone to contribute their unique talents, backgrounds, and skills for transformative results for our clients.

We’ll motivate you to develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career pathways. We believe in leadership at all levels. Regardless of your position in the organization, you can have a lasting impact on our projects, the teams and committees you belong to, as well as our enterprise.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and tools necessary for your career progression.

Upon joining us, you'll engage and cooperate with a worldwide network of professionals – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction overseers – spearheading the shift towards a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let us embark on this journey together.

Job Description

AECOM is searching for a qualified Lead Airside Design Engineer to become part of our Canadian team.

As part of our team, your duties are as follows:

• Assist or serve as the lead pavement engineer and/or project overseer for airside pavement engineering and/or pavement management projects.
• Provide guidance through supervising and mentoring less experienced team members.
• Give suitable feedback and instructions to team members as well as necessary updates to clients.
• Execute project schedules, budgets, and targets.
• Participate in internal and external project meetings.
• Plan, execute, and assess pavement evaluations and studies.
• Compose and review/approve reports and specs, and present them.
• Prepare technical reports, including specifications, pavement design reports.
• Complete Pavement Condition Index (PCI), assess airside pavement varieties, and carry out restoration.
• Set design parameters and perform detailed design for civil works associated with runways, taxiways, and aprons, and aircraft holding and deicing bays.
• Support other Project Managers in preparing onsite documentation and organizing field operations.
• Create staging / phasing plans for pavement construction and coordinate with the airport operations crew / Transport Canada, as necessary.
• Perform quality control/quality assurance duties on fieldwork, data analysis and interpretation, and engineering calculations.
• Review pavement engineering exam, designs, data analysis, and reports.
• Aid other team members in proposal preparation and expression of interest, considering the potential project’s methodology.
• Perform other onsite and/or offsite tasks, as necessary.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with 8 years accumulative experience in airfield engineering design.
• Registered Professional Engineer status or eligibility within 18 months.
• Valid full passenger-vehicle driver’s license in the associated province.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree focused on Pavement Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Preferably 12+ years' experience in airfield engineering design.
• Familiarity with and experience of airfield pavement, drainage, grading design, material specification and upkeep.

Additional Information

• The compensation offered will depend on individual education, provable skills, experience, and work location. The range for this position is typically between $120,000 - $150,000. Please note that this position can be based anywhere in Canada and compensation will differ for each location.
• Sponsorship for employment authorization in Canada is not available for this role.