Senior Engineer - Structures, Data Center
Listed on 2026-02-21
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Engineering
Engineering Design & Technologists, Systems Engineer, Environmental Engineer, Civil Engineering
Company Description
AECOM is seeking a Senior Engineer - Structures to be based in South Africa's Enterprise Capabilities office in Cape Town . This position will support a team locally based in South Africa and Global Teams. As a part of AECOM's culture, it offers a flexible hybrid work arrangement which accommodates both office and out-of-office work schedules.
About Enterprise Capabilities
Fundamental to our Think and Act Globally strategy and digital adoption, Enterprise Capabilities (EC) is AECOM’s primary vehicle for workshare. Operating across geographic boundaries and time-zones, EC partners with regional and Global Business Line project teams to provide technical expertise, accelerate delivery and keep AECOM competitive in the industry.
With a team of over 3000 technical professionals located across nine countries and remote technical anchors, EC teams are trusted to deliver high-quality, specialist services that help to fill capability gaps, resourcing needs and technical constraints on projects of all scopes and sizes.
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Job Description
Here's what you will be doing:
The Senior Engineer delivers discipline involvement in projects and ensures effective delivery input of others. Works on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations, drawings and reports, etc. The role includes design development, design review, supervision, coordination, and design documentation. Guides junior engineers and independently performs all the tasks necessary to complete design works. Shares technical expertise and experience with others in the company via internal technical communication and presentations.
Responsible for the development of high-quality design outputs. Able to do hands-on design. The Senior Engineer will have superb interpersonal and leadership skills, a growth mindset, attention to detail and an excellent work ethic. The Senior Engineer will serve as lead engineer on small to medium size projects, providing specialised technical input to studies and design for specific areas of expertise.
Team Responsibilities:
Lead a design team of junior and mid-level Structures staff and provide mentorship, direction, and motivation on a daily basis and in a strategic manner to ensure AECOM remains an employer of choice for structural skills.
Ensure assigned teams effectively coordinate with the other disciplines to ensure there are no design gaps providing fully coordinated design deliverables. This includes the support of the construction supervision teams.
Effectively bring project teams together to work toward a shared goal ensuring the team’s results exceed the total achievements of the individuals.
Hold themselves and others to high standards.
Provide coaching and guidance to less experienced staff, engineers, and designers to increase technical competence, as well as knowledge of systems and procedures.
Business Development:
Begins to build and maintain client relationships.
Participate in preparing major bids and proposals on the technical side whilst supporting business development initiatives through their technical expertise.
Responsible for technically leading aspects of projects, supporting Project Managers and technical teams to deliver within scope, budget, timeframe, and high-quality standards.
Have a working knowledge of Revit, Tekla Structural Designer / Etabs / SAP
2000 / Robot / Idea Statica, and other associated design programmes.
Have a working knowledge of running a structural engineering team in a multi-disciplinary team environment where all project drawings are generated using BIM tools (Autodesk Revit).
Interface with clients on schedules, meetings, and issues (manage client expectations and perceptions).
Anticipate potential schedule or priority delays and initiate plans for alternative actions.
Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields.
Support digital transformation strategy and implementation and embrace change within the discipline.
Follows existing or develops design procedures to facilitate high-quality, cost-effective work by self and others.
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