Associate Director - Dams and Reservoirs

at  AECOM

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Job Description

As an experienced reservoir engineer, your role will be crucial in developing, leading, and collaborating within teams to successfully deliver challenging dams and reservoir projects. Your expertise will be instrumental in supporting our global Dams and Reservoir (D&R) and Hydro teams across existing projects and future opportunities.

Part of your role and responsibilities will include;

• The role of the Associate Director is to provide technical leadership in the delivery of the design of new reservoirs and remedial work together with and inspection, investigation or design work for any related activities on reservoirs that fall within the scope of reservoir safety legislation. You will also be allocated a number of reservoirs to supervise under the Act.
• The role will include ensuring the compliance by AECOM as required for the Reservoir Safety Legislation; signing of any necessary Certifications; performing any roles as required by the legislation for which AECOM are appointed by the Client; agreement on the technical approach/solution for the project and that it is appropriate to meet the Client’s requirements; review of project technical risks and ensuring any project mitigation measures are in place to address the technical risk.
• The role of Associate Director for Dams projects can be complex in nature and technical content. Projects include a minimum level of expertise in Hydrology, Hydraulics, Geotechnical, Structural Engineering as well as other Stakeholder and project delivery experience.