Description:
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
This role will see you enhance your capabilities and the reputation of WSP’s Water Group's Asset Management and Planning (AMP) team . You will collaborate with talented professionals working on iconic projects to drive future ready outcomes that will benefit clients and communities.
Our Water team promotes holistic, sustainable water resource management for governments, investors, developers, manufacturers, utilities, and corporations, helping with network maintenance and development, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, cost reduction, and future-ready strategies.
This position will be based in our Queensland offices, ideally in Brisbane, accepting applications for Senior level Engineers.
At WSP you’ll find the scale and reach you need to do the kind of work the world needs – and the culture and people that make it the best work of your life.
What you’ll do
- Development of contingency and rehabilitation strategies and plans, operational procedures, asset class plans, renewal, capital expenditure and whole of life asset costing schedules and business case development
- Oversee and plan the development of asset registers including asset numbering and naming conventions
- Asset condition assessments including qualitative desktop assessments for asset types including:
- different pipe materials and channel types
- concrete and steel structures
- pump stations
- Implementing risk assessments, root cause analysis, FMECA, failure mode and failure mechanism analysis
- Project management skills
- Assessment of water balance and economic level of leakage using non-revenue models
- Asset reliability analyses
- Optimisation of maintenance schedules and water network operations
- Application of geographical information systems and associated platforms (i.e. MapInfo and ArcGIS)
- Advanced analytics and optimisation modelling
- Understanding of safety requirements for site inspection work and construction work related to asset rehabilitation
About You
- Tertiary qualification (i.e. Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering or equivalent)
- Proven relevant asset management experience, engineering consulting experience an advantage
- Have an excellent understanding of hydraulic principles
- Previous Australian utility sector experience an advantage
- Understanding of assessment techniques and rehabilitation strategies
- Excellent and demonstratable written and verbal communication skills with specific experience in writing quality technical reports
- Willingness to broaden experience in the asset inspection and design disciplines
- Ability to operate independently to provide sound technical outcomes
- Have excellent time management practises and be self-aware of commercial and scope constraints
- Alignment to organisational cultural values and ethics.
- Team player
Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
An employee Share Purchase Plan is available to all our permanent employees who wish to become owners and vested partners in WSP’s collective success. To find out more about our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Employee Benefits page.
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