Principal Engineer – Water Resources
Join us in building joyful connected cities.
Egis is committed to creating an inclusive, creative culture that embraces diversity and flexibility. We offer generous parental leave, support flexible work practices and strive to create an environment where employees can connect, collaborate, grow and succeed.
Egis is an organisation with a capacity to make meaningful industry and community change in the space of place making, sustainability and creating connected cities. Different to other engineering firms, Egis offers true end to end capability across the entire design to operation lifecycle, offering advisory, architecture, engineering, design, asset management and operations services.
We are committed to creating great teams doing innovative work and would love you to join us to Impact the Future.
The Role
As a Principal Engineer in our ANZ business, your impact will be predominantly within the Stormwater and Flooding team. The team is a specialist group focusing on delivering solutions in the areas of Water Sensitive Urban Design (constructed waterbodies, bioretention, proprietary water quality devices etc.), hydrological investigations, 1D hydraulic modelling and 2D regional flood modelling.
You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment being part of diverse projects whilst working alongside a strong, passionate and experienced team delivering innovative solutions.
What you’ll do
- Lead Meetings with project stakeholders including clients, other Egis disciplines as well as external consultants;
- Developing strategies and work methodologies to meet the requirements of the projects;
- Overseeing and QA on water quality modelling using MUSIC software and developing treatment devices to ensure developments achieve necessary water quality objectives;
- Overseeing and QA on hydrological modelling within XPRAFTS and WBNM. Experience in URBS is also valuable;
- Overseeing and QA for 1D hydraulic investigations (using XPSWMM/XPSTORM and HEC-RAS) and 2D flood investigations (using TUFLOW)
- Mentor and training engineers within the team to help support their development
What we are looking for
- A Bachelor of Civil or Environmental Engineering or other relevant qualification
- A minimum of 5 years of experience within the stormwater and flooding field.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience working on urban development projects for private developers as well as projects for state and local government.
- A good understanding/comprehension of common hydrological and hydraulic investigations undertaken as part of urban development.
- Experience undertaking and preparing Stormwater Management Plans and Flood Impact Assessments.
- Strong understanding of MUSIC, XPRAFTS, WBNM, XPSWMM/XPSTORM, HEC‑RAS, TUFLOW, ArcMAP and QGIS software packages.
- An encouraging attitude towards helping to develop members of the team as well as drive to grow your own career.
- A drive to be part of a collaborative culture that’s focused on it’s people.
We value the difference each team member brings and we look for people from a diverse range of backgrounds who have a growth mindset.
Who we are
Egis is a global organisation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. With our head office based in Paris, we offer global career opportunities, as well as offer rewarding careers for our people locally. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we create innovative solutions with our clients worldwide.
We are expanding in Australia and New Zealand and are excited for you to join our growing team.
Want to know more?
Visit the Egis website or reach out to nick.mower@calibregroup.com
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