Senior Hydraulic Engineer - Power Plants and Dams

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Job description

AECOM is currently looking for a Senior Hydraulic Engineer for a full-time position based in Montreal or Ottawa.

The successful candidate will mainly contribute to projects involving hydroelectric power plants, pumped-storage stations, dams and hydraulic structures. They may also be called upon to support other business lines, including port infrastructure, structures and environmental initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Act as technical lead and take charge of assignments related to the discipline, coordinating the professionals and technical teams assigned to projects;
• Prepare and write technical reports and calculation notes for various projects, including hydraulic studies and analyses, energy production simulations, transient flow analyses and dam safety studies;
• Carry out feasibility, preliminary design and detailed design studies for hydroelectric works and pumped-storage plants (powerhouses, dams, spillways, diversions, etc.), and occasionally for hydraulic structures (channels, bridges, etc.);
• Perform numerical modelling of flows and dam break simulations (1D, 2D and 3D models);
• Ensure quality control of technical studies carried out by team members and supervise engineers.

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering with a specialization in water resources or hydraulics;
• Member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ);
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in hydraulic design of hydroelectric developments, numerical flow modelling and dam safety;
• Good knowledge of HEC software suite;
• Excellent technical report writing skills;
• Excellent command of French, both spoken and written;
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.

Desirable qualifications

• Master's degree in hydraulics or a related field;
• 20 years or more of relevant experience;
• Proficiency in Flow-3D and Simsen software;
• Bilingualism (French and English), required for assignments outside Quebec;
• Valid driver's license

Additional information

Sponsorship for obtaining a Canadian work permit is not available for this position

About AECOM

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services company with extensive technical expertise, we solve our clients' complex challenges in the areas of water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our teams collaborate with clients in the public and private sectors to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle, whether advisory services, planning, design, engineering, program management or construction. AECOM is a Fortune 500 company that generated revenues of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. Learn more at aecom.ca.

The freedom to grow in a world of opportunities

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you work from an AECOM office, a remote location or a client site, you will work in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are upheld.

You will help foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to get to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational results for our clients.

AECOM offers a broad range of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We are the trusted global infrastructure company, and we are all in the same boat - your growth and success are our own as well.

Join us and you will get all the benefits of being part of a publicly traded global company - access to cutting-edge technology and thinking and to transformational work with significant impact and work flexibility. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe in the potential of every person and we will help you reach yours.

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