Senior Civil Aviation Design Engineer - AECOM

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AECOM Aviation team seeks a Senior Civil Aviation Design Engineer within the NY Metro Aviation Department.  The Senior Design Engineer will deliver ongoing and future projects and mentor junior civil engineers.   The focus for this role will be mainly centered in aviation projects and include airport pavement design, lighting, design of airport runway, taxiway, and site development along with aviation project management.  Additional focus will be on airside work elements that included apron, taxi lane, hardstand and terminal pavements, aircraft utility connections, security fencing & blast wall, airfield access points.

The ideal candidate will be afforded the following:
•    Opportunity to work on some of the most important and iconic aviation projects in world
•    Upward growth potential with career trajectory in the technical and project management tracks
•    Opportunity to collaborate with a world class aviation engineering team

Primary functions will include, but are not limited to the following:
•    Senior technical resource to serve as technical advisor for team
•    Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.
•    Develops study and design procedures to facilitate high-quality cost-effective work by others.
•    Participates in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables.
•    Develops construction cost estimates and estimates of technical efforts for projects.
•    Uses expertise in all steps of completing discipline component of PS&E package.
•    Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings.
•    Prepares technical specification sections.
•    Provides input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements.
 

Minimum requirements:
•    Bachelor's in Civil Engineering + 6 years of experience as an Aviation Designer with experience in apron, taxiway and runway design. or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
•    Professional Engineer (PE) License in the state of New York or New Jersey

Preferred qualifications:
•    Master's degree in Civil Engineering with a design focus.
•    10+ years of aviation design experience
•    Experience coordination civil apron designs with Passenger Boarding Bridge and Hydrant Fueling requirements
•    Airfield drainage modeling 

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future for this position.

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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.

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