ConDig (17-May-17). Engineering group AECOM is looking to hire 3,000 qualified professionals and technical experts throughout the US and Canada amid a major uptick in infrastructure projects.
The Los Angeles, California-based company is looking to fill the positions over the next six months and the jobs range from entry level to senior leadership positions. They include architects, engineers, designers, planners, scientists, skilled laborers and construction and management professionals.
“With a renewed public and private sector commitment to repair North America’s infrastructure, AECOM has set out to hire top-tier talent that can deliver in every role,” said Michael S. Burke, AECOM’s chairman and chief executive officer.
“To continue providing the innovative solutions our clients require, we are adding more creative problem-solvers who can think strategically and collaborate across our design, build, finance and operate capabilities.”
AECOM is looking to tap into a flurry of projects that are set to move off the drawing board and include transportation, buildings, environment, water, defense and energy.
Speaking to CNBC today, Burke said that there has been a recent focus on a local and state level of revamping creaking transportation infrastructure, while at a Federal level there has been a focus on aviation and water and power projects.
“There’s been a broad ramp up in infrastructure projects. Just in the last 9 months we’ve won over $20 billion worth of new projects around the world,” he said, adding that California recently passed a $52 billion fuel tax bill to fund upgrades to roads and bridges.
President Donald Trump has said that a new infrastructure plan, which could total around $1 trillion, is “largely completed” and details are expected to be unveiled in the next few weeks.
Under the plan, $200 billion in taxpayer money will be used to kick starts the plan’s remaining private investment and leverage $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years.
Trump’s wide ranging plan to upgrade the nation’s aging highways, airports and bridges could be rolled out over the next decade