Senior/Associate Asset Management Engineer - Condition Assessments

What if you could help shape our growing infrastructure and deliver projects that will benefit our communities?

With us, you can.

This role will see you enhance your capabilities and the reputation of WSP’s Water Group's Asset Management and Planning (AMP) team. You will collaborate with talented professionals working on iconic projects to drive future ready outcomes that will benefit clients and communities.

Our Water team promotes holistic, sustainable water resource management for governments, investors, developers, manufacturers, utilities, and corporations, helping with network maintenance and development, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, cost reduction, and future-ready strategies.

This position will be based in our Queensland offices, ideally in Brisbane or Gold Coast, accepting applications from Senior to Principal Engineers.

At WSP you’ll find the scale and reach you need to do the kind of work the world needs – and the culture and people that make it the best work of your life.

What you’ll do

• Development of contingency and rehabilitation strategies and plans, operational procedures, asset class plans, renewal, capital expenditure and whole of life asset costing schedules and business case development
• Development of asset registers including asset numbering and naming conventions
• Asset condition assessments including qualitative desktop assessments, quantitative field works (destructive and non-destructive testing), stress analysis such as FEA, statistical analysis (such as Weibull estimations) for asset types including:
• different pipe materials and channel types
• concrete and steel structures
• pump stations
• Implementing risk assessments, root cause analysis, FMECA, failure mode and failure mechanism analysis
• Project management skills
• Assessment of water balance and economic level of leakage using non-revenue models
• Asset reliability analyses
• Optimisation of maintenance schedules and water network operations
• Application of geographical information systems and associated platforms (i.e. MapInfo and ArcGIS)
• Advanced analytics and optimisation modelling

About You

• Tertiary qualification (i.e. Bachelor of Civil Engineering or equivalent)
• Proven relevant asset management experience, engineering consulting experience an advantage
• Have an excellent understanding of hydraulic principles, materials assessment; pipe materials knowledge such as cast iron, asbestos cement, ductile iron, steel, polymer pipes
• Previous Australian utility sector experience an advantage
• Willingness to broaden experience in the planning and design disciplines
• Possess strong statistical and data analytics skills
• Ability to operate independently to provide sound technical outcomes
• Have excellent time management practises and be self aware of commercial and scope constraints
• Alignment to organisational cultural values and ethics.
• Team player

About WSP

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services firms, bringing together approximately 6,000 talented people across 15 offices in Australia. We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions andengineer Future ReadyTM projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

At WSP, we want you to embrace your curiosity and work in a culture celebrating different perspectives. With access to global scale and reach, you’ll connect with the brightest minds in the field to make the best work of your life.

We believe that in imagining a better future for us all, you’ll imagine a better future for you.

To find out more about our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Benefits page.

Think this could be the opportunity for you? Apply now to begin your journey with WSP.

WSP. With us, you can.

Please note that we are not engaging recruitment agencies for this position