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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, public- and private-sector clients trust them to solve their most complex challenges.

Your role

Job description:

• Water Consulting graduates work within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects such as the York Flood Alleviation Scheme to increase the resilience of the City of York to flooding.
• Water Consulting graduates have undertaken hydraulic modeling, hydrology, and flood mapping to inform an assessment of the most cost-beneficial options for increasing the standard of flood protection in the city.
• As a part of this, water consultants have been involved with economic assessment, option appraisal reporting, and writing business cases.
• The project also involved the analysis of natural flood management measures to determine a longer-term plan for managing future flood risk using a total catchment approach.

Job responsibilities will include:

• Working with other team members to undertake technical work such as hydraulic modeling (including river and network modeling), hydrology, and flood risk analysis.
• Producing technical notes and reports to present results and methods used
• Producing mapping for spatial analysis and presentation using GIS software
• Undertaking and writing flood risk assessments including liaising with statutory bodies such as the Environment Agency and Local Planning Authorities
• Working alongside other sectors and offices to deliver projects

Training & development

Once you are a part of a network of global experts, you will work alongside the industry’s best and brightest in an environment that supports learning, development, and technical excellence. You will attend several instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role. 

Benefits

AECOM offers competitive salaries, benefits, and a working environment where you’re valued as part of the team. Benefits include:

• Compensation and benefits programs
• A robust global well-being program
• Private medical insurance
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance
• Bi-annual salary review
• Gym membership discount
• Childcare vouchers
• Paid leave
• Employee assistance
• Pension
• And more!

Career progression

The advance program is designed to help you build your career in Aecom. Alongside the instructor-led elements of the advance program, you will also engage with an online curriculum via Aecom University and have the opportunity to join the advance webinar series.

Work-life balance

Aecom will give you 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.

Culture & vibe

As an equal-opportunity employer, Aecom believes in each person’s potential, and they will help you reach yours. You will help AECOM foster a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where they invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds, and expertise to create transformational outcomes for the clients.

About you

To apply for this role you need to have the following eligibility criteria:

Qualifications:

• Geography degree or Water related MSc such as Fluvial Geomorphology, Catchment Management/Processes, Water Resources, Hydrology, with a 2:1 classification (or equivalent) or above
• Water-related modules would be an advantage
• Relevant work experience would be an advantage
• Enthusiastic, hard-working, technically proficient, with ambition and drive.
• Basic computer skills are essential (Word/Excel) and good report-writing skills are beneficial.
• Willing and able to work towards professional qualifications such as CIWEM
• Demonstrable interest in water projects
• Capability to satisfy client and business expectations and be able to consider the wider financial and commercial implications of their actions.
• Communicate effectively to internal and external clients, both verbally & in writing.
• Structure & prioritize work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole.
• Ability to work independently without losing initiative & focus.

Sources

The following sites were used in researching this page.

• https://aecom.com/uk-ireland-graduate-careers/uk-ireland-gdp-benefits/
• https://aecom.com/uk-ireland-graduate-careers/
• https://aecom.com/careers/graduates-and-early-careers/
• https://www.youtube.com/@AECOM