Principal Flooding Engineer/ Team Lead

  • Brisbane
  • Arcadis
Manage and lead Flood Modelling on large scale infrastructure projects
Opportunity to expand skills into other areas such as land development, precincts, and resilience focused projects.
Opportunity to work on flagship Brisbane infrastructure projects
Supportive management and collaborative team with strong professional development culture.
With flexible work options including part time hours available.

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

With consistent high demand for our skilled flooding professionals to deliver the high-profile complex infrastructure projects we are involved in, we are looking for a experienced Team Leader to join our growing and highly professional Highways and Civil team.

Role accountabilities:

Your work will encompass leading teams through the development of hydrological and hydraulic models (flood modelling) and authoring reports or other documentation.
You will be responsible for leading elements of projects and collaborating with junior team members, taking responsibility for own resourcing and potentially resource allocation of others.
Work within a defined area of responsibility on projects with flooding elements. This will include being responsible for specific parts of a design package within a project.
Carry out technical reviews of hydrological and hydraulic models and be responsible for the development of others through providing guidance, training, and feedback.
Represent your team or technical discipline at external meetings with clients or project stakeholders.
Ensure that the delivery of flood modelling tasks, including meeting budget, time-frame and quality targets, exceeds client expectations.
Resolving technical flood modelling issues and providing solutions.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable Flooding Engineer with experience in drainage design for civil infrastructure or land development projects and come to us with:

Recognised relevant tertiary qualifications and relevant skills.
Extensive post-graduate experience, most likely in consulting engineering or a similar local/state government role, with exposure to medium-large and multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.
Professional experience with TUFLOW (1D, 2D, combined 1D/2D) is an essential criterion.
Experience in Hydrologic analysis (e.g., RORB, RAFTS, etc.) and flood modelling with other hydraulic modelling packages such as HEC-RAS is desirable.
Experience in GIS software such as MapInfo, QGIS and/or ArcGIS.
Knowledge and experience in the application of ARR2019 guidelines.
Proven working knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and guidelines (TMR/Austroads standards).

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.

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