How will you make your mark?

At AECOM, our work in providing access to clean water enables communities to thrive and ecosystems to flourish, contributing to a resilient future. As a global leader in infrastructure consulting, we are at the forefront of significant water projects, with over 6,000 of the industry’s best minds driving innovation and technical excellence. Together, we develop solutions that are not only best in the world, but best for the world.

With an acceleration in infrastructure investment, your bold ideas and global expertise have never been more crucial. Join our dynamic team, where innovation, career growth, and collaboration are celebrated. Enjoy the freedom to grow with customizable career paths, water-specific technical and professional development and the potential to contribute to transformational projects worldwide.

Dams

With a proud history spanning over 85 years and thousands of successful projects, our expertise in dam and reservoir engineering is unmatched. From feasibility studies to design, construction, and maintenance, we cover every aspect of the process, ensuring the longevity and safety of critical water infrastructure. As part of our team, you'll contribute to our legacy, bringing innovative solutions to life and making a meaningful impact on global water resources.

As a Senior Hazardous Area & Functional Safety Engineer, you will lead and manage complex engineering projects, providing expert guidance in hazardous area classification, safety design, and risk management across various industrial applications. You will play a key role in ensuring project quality, compliance with European and Romanian safety standards, and contribute to the technical development of the engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Engineering Leadership: Act as the lead engineer on mid- to large-sized projects, overseeing hazardous area classification, risk assessments, and safety compliance throughout each phase.
• Technical Expertise: Offer specialized input in studies and designs, ensuring solutions adhere to functional safety standards and industry regulations.
• Quality Control: Conduct quality control reviews for work developed by other engineers and approve/sign off on project deliverables.
• Client Engagement: Present complex technical solutions to clients, addressing technical and regulatory issues clearly and effectively.
• Proposal Development: Contribute to technical proposals, budgeting, and project scheduling for large-scale projects.
• Risk Assessment Facilitation: Facilitate risk assessment processes, such as HAZOP, HAZID, Functional Safety, and LOPA, to ensure comprehensive safety standards are met.
• Compliance Assurance: Keep current with European and Romanian hazardous area regulations and functional safety standards, ensuring project compliance.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Primary Skills:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
  • Proficiency in hazardous area classification, checking, and verification.
  • Experience leading risk assessment processes (HAZOP, HAZID, Functional Safety, LOPA).
  • Strong background in functional safety engineering, including verification of safety-related control functions.
• Secondary Skills:
  • Knowledge of functional safety standards and practices for hazardous areas, including design and verification.
  • Familiarity with Defense EO standards, process safety, dust explosion safety, and dangerous goods (DG) handling is advantageous.

Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to maintain compliance with safety standards in hazardous areas.
• Capability to assess and manage risks across various industries, including wastewater, bulk fuels, and dangerous goods.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex solutions to clients and collaborate with team members and subconsultants.

This role offers the opportunity to lead project excellence and safety compliance efforts while developing internal capability and expertise in hazardous area engineering and functional safety.

• Relocation may be available for this role.
• AECOM is interested in every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States. Permanent residency sponsorship is available for current H1-B visa holders in the United States.
• Up to 30% travel required for this role. 

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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 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, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.