Digital Engineering Lead

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Job Description

Job Description

As our Defence portfolio continues to grow, our Digital Engineering team is looking to appoint a Digital Engineering Lead to play a key role across a large, complex, and long-term Defence program. We're seeking an experienced digital engineering professional who brings strong BIM governance capability, a collaborative mindset, and the confidence to work independently across project teams.

This role can be based anywhere in Australia, including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide, with regular travel to Adelaide required.

• Provide independent BIM and digital engineering governance across a high-profile Defence program, conducting model audits, data validation, and supporting multi-discipline model federation to uphold information quality and project standards.
• Act as a trusted Digital Engineering SME, advising project teams, design managers, and clients on best practice, technical solutions, and the effective use of platforms including Autodesk ACC (Forma), Revit, Revizto, ProjectWise, and SharePoint.
• Drive end-to-end digital information management - from project planning and design through to delivery and into operations - ensuring data is structured, accessible, and supports informed decision-making at every stage.
• Collaborate closely with project delivery, design management, and program management teams, integrating digital engineering workflows into broader project governance without sitting in a traditional project delivery role.
• Lead and mentor a small team of Digital Engineering and Digital Systems specialists, helping to coordinate workload, support their professional growth, and ensure the team delivers consistently to project milestones and client expectations.

Qualifications

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don't tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

• Significant experience in Digital Engineering, BIM, or infrastructure project environments, ideally 15+ years - with exposure to large-scale, complex, or Defence-related programs highly regarded.
• Strong hands-on proficiency across digital design and information management platforms, including Autodesk ACC, Revit, Revizto, Navisworks, ProjectWise, and/or 12D Synergy.
• Solid understanding of BIM processes and information management frameworks, with ISO 19650 knowledge or certification considered a strong advantage.
• Relevant qualifications in Digital Engineering, Engineering (Civil, Structural, or Services), Architecture, or a related discipline - though we place significant weight on practical, on-the-ground project delivery experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to operate across technical teams, project leadership, and clients alike. A willingness to travel to Adelaide at least monthly is required. 

Given the nature of the projects, Australian Citizenship is preferred, with current defence clearance highly regarded.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working with us

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year         
• Swap public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better
• Continuous learning and growth - lunch and learns, professional development courses, financial study assistance, 5 days paid study leave, global career opportunities

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About AECOM

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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.