Senior Consultant - Water Planning
- Join a high-performing team of water specialists.
- Deliver integrated water servicing strategies and plans.
- Support junior members in developing their asset management skills.
How will your ideas contribute to shaping what’s next?
Our Adelaide Water team is currently seeking senior consultants with Asset Management & Planning experience in the water industry. You will play an integral part in a high-performing team of skilled water specialists that ‘bring ideas to life’ for a diverse range of internal and external clients, including within the public and private sector. In joining our market-leading team, you will contribute to the delivery of our growing portfolio of water strategy and planning projects in South Australia and across the broader ANZ region.
Here Are The Key Things You’ll Do:
- Work with our key clients across multi-disciplinary teams, supporting project development for critical water & wastewater infrastructure investments and strategies
- Deliver integrated water servicing strategies and plans for new development precincts and sustaining capital assets.
- Deliver valued water and wastewater planning solutions in response to key drivers including growth servicing, asset renewals, asset reliability, system resilience, regulatory compliance, sustainability and liveability.
- Consider and assess whole-of-lifecycle costs and associated risks and benefits in system plans, including comprehensive analysis of potential infrastructure investment opportunities, assessing their viability via master planning, business case frameworks, and feasibility studies.
- Collaborate with internal teams, to bring together our design, engineering and advisory capabilities in the delivery of seamless client experiences.
- Contribute to business development including connecting with clients, identifying opportunities and supporting pursuits.
- Support junior members of the water team in the development of their asset management and planning skills.
We know today's complex challenges can only be solved through bringing together diverse teams of people from across our business, so there will be opportunities for you to apply your skills and creativity to projects in other geographies and markets, as well as across the Asset Lifecycle, from planning through to design and delivery.
What are we looking for from you?
Firstly, you will share our genuine passion for re-imaging problems and be someone that actively pursues continuous learning to help shape the future. To be successful in this position you will ideally have:
- An aptitude for strategic thinking and solving complex challenges
- Demonstrated experience in water and wastewater planning
- Demonstrated experience in asset management frameworks, approaches and methodologies
- Experience with adaptive planning frameworks and approaches (not essential)
- A passion for project delivery and unpacking strategic drivers to deliver optimised outcomes
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in Asset Management, Engineering, Project Management, business, economics or similar
- 5-10 years of industry experience, preferably in business case development, management consulting or engineering.
We value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life.
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