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Job Description
How you’ll make a difference.
Play a leading role in the delivery of electrical engineering design packages for a variety of interesting projects ranging from underground copper/gold hard rock mining to transport and water infrastructure projects. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will apply your technical expertise across the full project lifecycle, from concept through to detailed design and construction support with minimal supervision.
You will be a key technical contributor within a multidisciplinary consulting team, taking ownership of complex electrical designs including:-
Project Areas
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Surface and underground material handling, ventilation systems, fixed plant, and associated infrastructure typical of hard rock metalliferous mining environments
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Intelligent transport system and lighting designs for transport infrastructure projects
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Pump stations and water/waste-water plants for a range of water infrastructure projects
Skills
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Produce/Lead the delivery of detailed electrical designs, equipment layouts, and engineering drawings using AutoCAD, ensuring compliance with Australian Standards, client specifications, and applicable regulations and codes
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Develop and manage 3D plant models and coordinate discipline clash detection using Navisworks or equivalent federated modelling tools
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Apply an understanding of underground hard rock mining systems including ore handling (crushers, conveyor systems, ore passes, winders/hoists), dewatering, ventilation systems, workshops and fixed plant
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Interpret mechanical, civil, and structural interfaces to produce fully coordinated electrical designs appropriate for underground environments
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Manage and control drawing registers, model deliverables, and document workflows
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Participate in internal design reviews, checking your own and junior staff work for technical accuracy, constructability, and compliance prior to issue
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Provide technical mentorship and guidance to cadet and intermediate designers within the team
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Liaise directly with project engineers, project managers, and client representatives to manage design deliverables, resolve technical queries, and ensure on-time delivery
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Develop and maintain equipment libraries for electrical equipment
Qualifications
The qualities that help you thrive
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Demonstrated ability to work autonomously on complex electrical design tasks with minimal direction from senior engineers
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Strong understanding electrical design principles
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Familiarity with underground hard rock mining operations, equipment, and the practical constraints of designing for confined, remote, and hazardous environments would be advantageous
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High proficiency in 2D drafting and 3D modelling with a consistent record of low error rates and thorough self-checking
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Collaborative and communicative, with the confidence to challenge design assumptions and raise technical concerns constructively
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Minimum 5-10 years of electrical drafting and design experience in a CAD environment
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Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD experience is essential. Experience with Microstation and/or Revit would be well regarded
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Demonstrated experience producing deliverables across all design stages (Pre-Feasibility, Feasibility, Detailed Design, and Construction)
Additional Information
What We Offer
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) recognises AECOM as taking a sophisticated, holistic approach to supporting women and men’s participation throughout our workplace.
We provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many benefits to ensure your professional development & wellbeing.
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Flexible working options
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Diverse, challenging and exciting multidisciplinary engineering projects
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Paid parental and partner leave
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Purchased additional annual leave + salary packaging
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Wellbeing benefits eg. Vaccinations, health insurance discounts
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Employee stock purchase plans
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.
Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected, so if this opportunity sounds like you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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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.
