Senior Owner’s Engineer (Collaborative Project Delivery)

AECOM seeks a Senior Owner’s Engineer experienced in collaborative project delivery to join our Water Team. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead and influence high-profile projects across a national service area, tackling complex technical challenges while assuming a significant level of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities:

Planning and procurement:

• Assess Owner readiness and develop plans to close capability gaps.
• Support delivery method selection, market outreach, and risk assessments with mitigation plans.
• Develop technical requirements for RFQs/RFPs and support the solicitation process.
• Work with Owner procurement and legal staff to finalize contract documents.
• Support Owner public outreach.

Design phase:

• Review submittals for conformance with the delivery agreement, quality, and technical standards; flag items requiring Owner action and changes affecting cost, time, scope, or quality.
• Attend design meetings and workshops; coordinate Owner, designers, contractors, and permitting agencies; confirm required reviews (constructability, value engineering) are completed.
• Evaluate contractor self-performance requests, work packaging and procurement plans, GMP proposals, and the overall project schedule.

Construction and commissioning:

• Lead program and OE field staff; monitor and report construction status (cost, scope, schedule) to the Owner.
• Monitor contractor work for compliance with codes, plans, specifications, and schedules.
• Help Owner operations staff coordinate with the Design-Builder on plant operations, startup, testing, and commissioning.
• Review inspection, test, and demonstration plans and results against the Owner’s verification plan.
• Support review of substantial and final completion, including inspections, documentation, and resolution of open issues.

Program controls:

• Support and interpret project controls and financial reporting information as required by the Owner.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field and 10+ years of multi-discipline construction experience, including one or more collaborative delivery models or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to one-third of normal work hours.
• A valid driver’s license is required, along with the ability to pass a Motor Vehicle Records (MVR) check in accordance with company policy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in state of residence, or ability to obtain within 6 months.
• DBIA certification (Able to achieve in six months).
• Master’s degree in engineering or management.
• Experience in co-located integrated teams.
• Autodesk and engineering calculation software experience.
• Familiarity with Bluebeam, SharePoint and other collaborative software platforms.
• Experience using Primavera P6.
• Experience with cloud-based construction management software.
• Experience on infrastructure projects including water/wastewater treatment, conveyance, or water resources/resiliency projects.
• Working knowledge of collaborative delivery contracts and commercial terms.
• Knowledge of construction administration, specifications, standards, and methods for water/wastewater.
• Ability to read plans, specifications, and inspection/test reports, and to identify and mitigate project risks.
• Strong written, analytical, and interpersonal skills for working with clients, executives, designers, contractors, vendors, and regulators.
• Proficiency in MS Office.