Meet Erin Vais

Erin has always been passionate about the water industry. She started out as a wastewater process engineer before the broader challenges of population growth, drought and livability drew her towards her current role in strategic planning. Erin works across many aspects of the urban water sector from treatment plant capacity assessments and optioneering, to precinct planning for new growth areas, to integrated and adaptive city-scale strategic planning. Alongside her technical work, she has pursued project management and even had a two-year stint in sales at Jacobs in California.

Erin challenges today and reinvents tomorrow by rethinking how we can help our clients make better, more confident decisions in the face of future uncertainty and achieve their long-term goals.

Erin has over 10 years’ experience in the water industry as a project manager and process engineer. She’s currently the technical director, strategic planning at Jacobs in our water team in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).

In planning for our future water supplies, Erin acknowledges the challenges that climate change presents to the security of our water supplies in the context of growing populations and community expectations for livability and healthy waterways. She says that at Jacobs, our work couples our engineering and technical skills with those of thoughtful and deliberate strategic planning, with an increased focus on adaptive strategic planning, to provide solutions for a more sustainable and resilient water future.

Erin works closely with our water and strategic advisory teams finding opportunities to collaborate to grow our capabilities to deliver enhanced solutions to our clients.

Erin holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from University of New South Wales in Australia.