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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Lead the way in sustainable transport and join AECOM as an Associate Director.
Our Streets Team have a vacancy within our Liverpool office for an Associate Director with relevant experience in leading the delivery of a broad range of traffic and highway engineering projects and being responsible for work winning activities. The successful candidate will share our ethos of developing impactful design solutions and delivering high levels of service to assist with the growth of our Liverpool and Northern Streets business by enhancing existing and developing new client relationships.
The Streets team provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation and urban realm projects. You will be joining a strong team who are recognised as market leaders in the transportation sector including in active travel, public transport, bus priority and general traffic engineering. More than that, we are an approachable, supporting and encouraging team who strive to work collaboratively with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.
The role would suit a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career. In addition to delivering work within the local office, the role will involve working closely with other AECOM teams across the northern region and across the wider UK & Ireland business, with opportunity for international working.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
1. A successful track record in the management and delivery of a portfolio of traffic engineering projects - particularly sustainable infrastructure projects and roads/traffic engineering projects - ensuring technical content and quality of output produced is in line with the project brief. Following successful accreditation on the AECOM project management system, your will act as a Project Director/Project Manager including monitoring financial performance and key performance indicators. Comprehensive training on AECOM’s project management system will be provided.
2. Evidence of work winning; client relationship building, being alert to commercial opportunities, identifying emerging opportunities and developing strategies to secure work and develop work opportunities.
3. Demonstrative evidence of taking ownership in preparing detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to or lead bids. You will also work with colleagues to deliver marketing and business development objectives in both the local region and nationally.
4. A proven ability to manage a team, with strong leadership skills and the ability to develop and maintain a highly motivated project delivery team. This includes being a pro-active Line Manager, managing career progression of line reports, and supporting and monitoring team skills to ensure they are up to date with current best practice, techniques, and innovation.
5. An ability to establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines.
6. Practitioner in the use of DMRB, MfS, local authority design guidance’s, LTN’s and the MCHW
Technical Expertise:
You will have an ability to demonstrate high level of technical experience and expertise in one or more of the following areas:
7. Detailed design of municipal engineering schemes
8. Traffic engineering design (concept through to detail)
9. Cycling and walking design (concept through to detail)
10. Bus priority and BRT (concept through to detail)
11. Collision analysis / road safety audits
12. Site experience (preferred but not essential)
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
You will have a relevant degree and will have or be working towards Chartered status along with membership of a professional institution.
At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne
About 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.
ReqID: J10139219
Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid