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SalaryWhat 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 aplications 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
- Understanding of safety requirements for site inspection work and construction work related to asset rehabilitation
- Tertiary qualification (i.e. Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Materials 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
- Excellent understanding of concrete assessment; knowledge of concrete deterioration mechanisms, inspection techniques and rehabilitation strategies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with specific experience in writing quality technical reports
- Willingness to broaden experience in the asset inspection 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
