Senior Highway Engineer - Drainage

Aecom Burnaby 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.

Requirements

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.