Aurora Offshore Engineering is currently seeking an experienced Engineering Lead - Scour, with a strong interest in coastal and offshore engineering to join our Management Team.

The Position

This role involves a mix of leadership and technical engineering roles, ensuring effective mentoring of staff, planning and execution of engineering work by the team. You will generate improvement in performance, introducing effective systems and processes to manage performance and ensuring project deadlines and customer requirements are met within time and budget.

Responsibilities will include:

Manage internal engineering / technical tasks, in consultation with Principal Engineers;

Assist the engineering team to deliver engineering tasks on time and on budget, including progress tracking and reporting;

Provide discipline expertise, guidance and coaching staff on company projects;

Provide support to the engineering team from a technical and management perspective, including formal and informal mentoring;

Lead and manage the junior engineers;

Work collaboratively with Aurora's diverse range of Principal Engineering discipline experts;

Provide technical leadership in areas of personal technical experience including seabed mobility, scour erosion and sedimentation, seabed intervention and remediation and GIS management of data and knowledge;

Report project status and progress to clients and company management on regular basis; and

Proactively engage with Aurora's management team, including assisting and supporting the Engineering Manager, Operations Manager and Managing Director in managing the company in the context of a highly dynamic growing organisation.

The Person

As the successful applicant, you will have a strong understanding of offshore engineering concepts including hydrodynamics; structural response modelling and geotechnics with strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. You will hold more than ten years' experience in offshore renewable energy with a Bachelor of Master's qualification in relevant fields as well as:

A passion for using your skills to support the energy transition to a decarbonised world;

Technical expertise in seabed mobility, scour erosion and sedimentation, seabed intervention and remediation;

Proficiency in GIS management of data and knowledge;

High level computer literacy and proficiency;

Ability to synthesise information, identify problems, establish facts and deduce solutions;

Ideally demonstrable record of successfully engaging geographically diverse remote staff; and

A strong record of being highly engaged with staff supervision, training, mentoring and development of junior engineers.

The Company

Aurora Offshore Engineering is a boutique engineering consultancy with a strong focus on offshore renewable energy. Since our establishment in 2015, we are proud to say we have contributed towards the design of over 22GW out of the worldwide total of 75GW (2023) of new global renewable energy projects.

As specialists in hydrodynamics, seabeds and structures, Aurora Offshore Engineering brings together skills and extensive experience in both academic research and pragmatic, cost-effective offshore design consultancy for the renewable hydrocarbon and wider ocean industries.

We pride ourselves on overcoming engineering challenges, especially where they arise between the boundaries of traditional engineering disciplines.

Further information on Aurora and the team can be found at www.aurora-oe.com

If you have the qualifications, skills and abilities detailed above, we look forward to receiving your application.

Candidates who do not hold the legal ability to work in Australia will not be considered for this role. Agency enquiries will not be accepted for this position.

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for this role.

Please direct all queries relating to this role to Beth D'Sylva at [email protected]