Lead Engineer

About the role

AECOM India is looking for a Lead Engineer to join its Civil Engineering practice, working on medium to large infrastructure projects such as cultural buildings, high‑rises, airports, transit, health‑care and research facilities.

Key responsibilities

• Support the team for design, coordination, planning and completion of engineering projects.
• Communicate with seniors to understand project requirements.
• Plan and formulate approaches to tasks according to project requirements.
• Manage project design and deliverables, supervise junior engineers and modelers, and direct project staff in preparing contract documents such as drawings and specifications.
• Check work, modify work‑plans to ensure QA/QC is maintained.
• Monitor and control time spent on tasks to avoid overruns.
• Explore automation of repetitive work and support computational design efforts.
• Assist seniors with project delivery as required.

Required profile

• 6 to 10 years of experience on similar civil infrastructure projects.
• Undergraduate degree (Master’s preferred) in civil, hydraulics, environmental engineering or a related field.
• Knowledge of Indian codes (mandatory); familiarity with US, BS or Eurocodes is a plus.
• Experience preparing site grading, storm‑water drainage, sanitary sewer, underground gravity drainage, chemical sewer and tankage layouts.
• Willingness for programming, macros and Excel design sheets (desirable).
• Interest in Rhino, Grasshopper and Python coding (a plus).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Time‑management and people‑management abilities.

Required skills

• Sewer Gem
• Water GEM
• Civil 3D
• AutoCAD
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• Rhino
• Grasshopper
• Python