Senior Engineer - Building Civils
Listed on 2026-02-16
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Engineering
Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists, Electrical Engineering
Company Description
AECOM is seeking a Senior Engineer - Building Civils to be based in South Africa's Enterprise Capabilities office in Centurion . 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 is 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, engage with the client and other disciplines to develop solutions and design for specific areas of expertise.
Team responsibilities:
Lead a design team of junior and mid-level Building Civils staff and provide daily mentorship, direction, and motivation in a strategic manner to ensure AECOM remains an employer of choice for Building Civils skills.
Ensure assigned teams effectively coordinate with other disciplines to ensure there are no design gaps providing fully coordinated design deliverables. This includes support to 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 within.
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 aspect whilst supporting business development initiatives through their technical expertise.
Engineering:
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 Navisworks, ACC
360, Revit, Civil3D, SWMM, EPANET, Dynamo and other associated design programmes.
Have experience in design of stormwater (hydrology), water (hydraulics), sewerage, bulk earthworks, roads, and pavement design.
Have a working knowledge of running a building civil engineering team in a multi-disciplinary team environment where all project drawings are generated using BIM tools (Autodesk Revit, Navisworks and ACC
360).
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.
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