Acoustic Consultant

About the business and the role

At SLR we Make Sustainability Happen. SLR is an international environmental consultancy with a globally recognised reputation for providing high quality tailored services. With over 1,000 staff in APAC alone, we provide consultancy advice and support on a wide range of strategic and site-specific issues to a diverse and growing base of business, regulatory and governmental clients. We celebrate a ‘One Team Culture’, where bringing together diversity of thought and expression is key to building the best team to deliver excellent results.

SLR boasts one of Australia’s largest Acoustic teams, and we have a rare opportunity within our high performing and friendly Brisbane team for a graduate-junior level consultant to step into. This full-time position will offer the successful candidate endless opportunities to work with and learn from leading industry experts. You will be given the opportunity to work across our entire project portfolio consisting of environmental and transport noise and vibration as well as building and architectural acoustics.

We are looking for the right individual to join our team. To us, that is someone who enjoys working closely with their senior colleagues and brings a genuine passion to working within environmental acoustics.

Responsibilities

You will be part of a large team of experienced professionals (60+) across the APAC region and ten (10) working on small to large-scale projects in QLD. Typical day-to-day tasks would include:

• Collaborate and deliver projects with other personnel within the local, national and global team of acoustics and vibration and/or other relevant technical disciplines to achieve desirable project outcomes.
• Involvement with various project tasks including internal/external client liaison, project input data management, execution of technical tasks and report deliverables, ensuring proper quality control and review process in place on each project task.
• Involvement and contribution to other acoustics and vibration projects within the acoustics team, work in the following areas is expected: noise and vibration measurement and monitoring, modelling predictions, numerical analysis of results and associated reporting.
• Involvement and contribution to SLR and external client multidiscipline projects within the acoustics realm.

Skills and experience

Our ideal candidate will have a willingness to challenge their capabilities, be highly motivated and be an innovative thinker, as well as possess:

• A relevant bachelor’s degree or completing studies (ideally mechanical engineering or science (physics). Postgraduate qualifications will be an advantage;
• 1-3 years’ consulting experience.
• Experience in noise measurement and monitoring, data processing and analysis.
• Experience in the Environmental Sciences would be desirable.
• Strong analytical, verbal/written communication and technical report writing skills.
• Previous exposure to the broader acoustic and vibration discipline.
• Knowledge of noise monitoring equipment and/or 3D computer noise models such as SoundPLAN, CadnaA or ENM.

Our Benefits

We are proud of our unique culture where we work together to collaborate on projects to get the best possible outcome for our clients. Whether you’re working in the office, from home or a mix of the two, we recognise that every person is different, and our benefits aim to ensure that we cater for all.

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Next Steps

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted with gender diverse interview panels to the best of our ability. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Unsolicited resumes from recruitment consultants will not be accepted. You must be part of the preferred supplier agreement list which is coordinated through our Talent Acquisition team.

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