Principal Structural Engineer (Buildings)

AECO; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Annual leave benefits

Hybrid work options

Professional development

Job summary

AECOM's Buildings & Places team in Melbourne is seeking a Principal Structural Engineer to provide technical leadership and design input across health, education, defence, transport, aviation, and commercial projects. You will coordinate resources across the National Building Structures and Civil Engineering team, ensuring delivery within budgets and schedules.

You will mentor staff, lead complex design efforts, and build strong client relationships while advancing AECOM's structural portfolio

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering with 9+ years of experience.
• Proven ability to provide specialist structural input across conceptual and detailed design.
• Experience with advanced digital design workflows and software ETABS, RAM Concept, RAPT and SpaceGASS.
• Strong organizational and planning skills; ability to coordinate resources across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex building projects across key markets including health, education, defence, transport, commercial, aviation, sports and data centres.
• Lead and contribute to conceptual and detailed structural design and construction administration, delivering practical, high-quality and cost-effective solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across structural building design, ensuring compliance with Australian codes, standards and engineering best practice.
• Prepare and review design calculations, specifications, models and technical documentation, ensuring quality and well-coordinated design outcomes.
• Build strong client relationships, support business development and contribute to winning work and growing AECOM's structural engineering portfolio.
• Work closely with clients, other disciplines and project teams to coordinate design outcomes, manage project requirements and meet budgets and schedules.
• Lead, mentor and develop team members, supporting technical excellence, career development and a positive team culture.
• Coordinate workforce planning and resource allocation across our national Building Structures and Civil team, monitoring workloads and future demand to balance project priorities, team capacity and business needs.

Skills

Structural engineering

Leadership

Resource planning

Communication

Australian codes knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil/Structural Engineering

Tools

ETABS

RAM Concept

RAPT

SpaceGASS

Job description

• Full-time
• State/Province: Victoria
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Australia Pty Ltd
• Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model: On-Site
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: AU - Melbourne, VIC - 8 Siddeley Str

Company Description

Come and grow with us.

Our global portfolio of work comprises the design of iconic and award-winning buildings and landscapes. From strategic planning through to project realisation, the connections we make among people and place provide sustainable outcomes for our clients and the communities we serve. We place a premium on investing in digital capabilities and innovations which bring a unique consistency and efficiency to our scalable work. Together with our clients, we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including social infrastructure, transit, technology and logistics, and commercial and corporate real estate, while focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

Everyone belongs at AECOM

We’re committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging - because great ideas come from diverse perspectives. AECOM is proud to be a Fortune 500 Most Admired Company, a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, #Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards 2025 Winner and an AWEI Bronze Tier LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer.

Job Description

AECOM's Buildings & Places team is seeking a technically strong Principal Structural Engineer to join our Structures team in Melbourne. You will provide technical leadership and structural engineering design input across a diverse range of projects, including health, sports infrastructure, aviation, defence, education and commercial buildings.

Alongside your technical responsibilities, you'll play an important role in coordinating resources across our National Building Structures and Civil Engineering team, helping ensure the right people are in place to deliver projects while supporting workload planning, team development and business growth.

How you’ll make a difference:

Lead the delivery of complex building projects across key markets including health, education, defence, transport, commercial, aviation, sports and data centres.

Lead and contribute to conceptual and detailed structural design and construction administration, delivering practical, high-quality and cost-effective solutions.

Provide technical leadership across structural building design, ensuring compliance with Australian codes, standards and engineering best practice.

Prepare and review design calculations, specifications, models and technical documentation, ensuring quality and well-coordinated design outcomes.

Build strong client relationships, support business development and contribute to winning work and growing AECOM's structural engineering portfolio.

Work closely with clients, other disciplines and project teams to coordinate design outcomes, manage project requirements and meet budgets and schedules.

Lead, mentor and develop team members, supporting technical excellence, career development and a positive team culture.

Coordinate workforce planning and resource allocation across our national Building Structures and Civil team, monitoring workloads and future demand to balance project priorities, team capacity and business needs.

Qualifications

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role.

The qualities that help you thrive:

• A bachelor's degree in Civil / Structural Engineering, with ideally 9+ years of experience delivering complex structural engineering projects across a range of sectors and building typologies in Australia and New Zealand.
• Strong technical expertise and a track record of independently providing specialist structural engineering input across conceptual and detailed design.
• Proficiency in advanced digital design workflows and industry-standard software such as ETABS, RAM Concept, RAPT and SpaceGASS.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities and coordinate resources across multiple projects.
• The ability to work collaboratively with project and discipline leaders to understand resource requirements, monitor workloads and support effective project delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in resource management, workforce planning or workload coordination within an engineering consultancy or similar environment would be advantageous.
• Sound commercial awareness and decision-making skills, with the ability to use workload and resource information to identify gaps, balance competing demands and support project delivery.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working with us:

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, full-time, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
• Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better
• Continuous learning and growth - lunch and learns, professional development courses, financial study assistance, 5 days paid study leave, global career opportunities

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.