Principal Scientist

6 months ago

Auckland City, New Zealand AECOM Full time

Company Description
**Work with Us. Change the World.**

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 nearly 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**:
AECOM has an exciting opportunity for a Principal level professional to join our Geosciences and Remediation Services (GRS) Team in Auckland. As part of our larger and well-established Environment Group, you will take a key role in delivering excellence on projects covering closed landfill management, transport infrastructure, downstream oil and gas, regulatory peer review, due diligence, stormwater management, and much more.

This is a dual role with both technical and leadership elements.

For the technical element, you will utilise your science background and practical experience to help solve our clients’ problems. With exposure to projects across New Zealand and Australia, you will provide technical insight and support to our early career professionals. A strong focus on quality is a pre-requisite for this role.

The leadership element involves managing the local team in Auckland and Hamilton. As a member of the GRS leadership team, you will champion quality, consistency and collaboration in the work we do.

You will also play a key role in client engagement, developing new clients, winning work, and supporting the continued growth of the GRS business.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, geology or earth science.
- A minimum of 10 years contaminated land experience with a consultancy, council, or similar environment.
- Strong experience in contaminated land management, environmental site assessments (preliminary and detailed site investigations) and remediation.
- Ability to scope and cost ground investigations in a commercial environment.
- Strong field experience and understanding of sampling and monitoring a variety of media, including soil, groundwater, surface water, sediment, soil vapour and ground gas.
- Ability to supervise field teams and subcontractors.
- Willingness to travel, as required, across New Zealand.

Additional Information

**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

**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.

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