Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Join AECOM's 2024 Graduate Program!

Are you a driven graduate with a passion for structural engineering and building design? AECOM invites you to apply for the role of Graduate Engineer – Structures within our esteemed Building Engineering design team. This opportunity is part of our exclusive 2024 Graduate Program, where you will collaborate with experienced Senior Engineers on diverse and impactful building projects.

Role Overview

As a Graduate Engineer – Structures at AECOM, you will play a pivotal role in the design and development of a wide range of building projects. From world-class sporting venues to commercial properties, healthcare facilities, higher education campuses, research facilities, and hospitality venues, you will contribute to shaping the future of the built environment.

What We're Looking For

We are seeking enthusiastic graduates who are passionate about enhancing the built environment. If you are eager to apply your engineering skills to real-world challenges and thrive in a dynamic team environment, we want to hear from you. This role offers an opportunity to bring creativity, innovation, and technical expertise to our projects.

Your Development Journey

Throughout the graduate program, you will gain confidence in designing using various structural materials and for different building types. You will also develop an understanding of commercial arrangements, contract types, and procurement methods that influence our work. As you progress, you will assume greater autonomy and responsibility in your designs.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering from an accredited University.

• Candidates must be recent graduates, having graduated within the last 24 months or no later than September 2024, to be eligible for AECOM's Graduate Program.

• Successful applicants must have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.3 or 2:1 (or equivalent) and above.

• If you hold a Master’s Degree, it should have started within 12 months of completing your Bachelor’s Degree to ensure continuous education and meet program requirements.

• Candidates with more than 1 year of postgraduate work experience are not eligible for the program and are encouraged to apply for our professional-level roles instead.

• Mandatory undergraduate coursework in at least two of the following subjects:

Structural Dynamics

Dynamic problems in civil engineering; single-degree-of-freedom system; free and forced vibrations; transient phenomena and Duhamel's integral; distributed mass system; seismic response of structures; multi-storey buildings; random vibration and wind-induced response of structures.

Structural Steel Design II

Design of fully and partially composite beams. Beam-Columns design including local buckling, strength and stability interaction equations, biaxial bending, and bending and tension members. Plate girders design including ultimate shear strength, tension-field action, design of bearing and intermediate stiffeners, local buckling considerations, and flexural resistance. Second-order analysis techniques.

Reinforced Concrete Design II

Behaviour and design of reinforced concrete members, subjected to biaxial bending, torsion, lateral loads and two-way action. Two-way slab systems. Strip method, direct design approach, and equivalent frame analysis of two-way slabs. Yield line theory of slabs. Inelastic response of reinforced concrete structures and moment redistribution. Earthquake-resistant design.

Desirable Criteria:

• Proficiency in structural design analysis software based on Finite Element Method (FEM).

• Solid understanding and experience with BIM tools.

• Advantageous skills in Dynamo or Rhino Grasshopper, and scripting languages like Python or VB.

• Strong command of any structural design analysis software package FEM based.

Additional Information

Recruitment Timeline:

• Applications open: May 13th, 2024

• Applications close: May 31st, 2024

• Review of CVs, phone screening, and technical interviews: June and July 2024

• Mobilization & visa processing: August 2024

• Start Date: September / October 2024

• Program Orientation: November 2024 (This includes an induction and meet-and-greet for the entire graduate cohort from all our offices in the ME).

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10108649

Business Line: Building Engineering

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: On-Site