Company Description
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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Lead the way in sustainable transport and join AECOM as an Associate Director.
At AECOM, we’re shaping streets that move people—not just traffic. From active travel and bus user priority, to challenging urban engineering solutions, our work is redefining how cities function and thrive. Now, we’re looking for an Associate Director to help lead the growth of our Liverpool Streets team and make a lasting impact across the North and beyond.
This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines technical excellence, commercial awareness, and inspiring people leadership—and who wants to play a visible role in growing a successful, forward-thinking business.
This opportunity is open to candidates based across Manchester and Liverpool, with an expectation of regular attendance at our Liverpool office.
What you’ll do
You’ll lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of traffic and sustainable transport projects, acting as Project Director or Project Manager and ensuring outstanding technical quality, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.
Just as importantly, you’ll help shape our future—building strong client relationships, identifying new opportunities, and leading bids that win exciting work. You’ll work closely with colleagues across AECOM’s UK & Ireland business, with opportunities to collaborate internationally.
Why this role is different
You’ll be joining a market-leading Streets team recognised for excellence in:
1. Active travel and healthy streets
2. Public transport, bus priority and BRT
3. Urban realm and complex traffic engineering
We’re a collaborative, supportive team that values ideas, encourages innovation, and invests in people. If you’re motivated by influence, growth, and real-world impact, you’ll feel at home here.
Your leadership impact
4. Inspire, manage, and develop a high-performing project delivery team
5. Act as a proactive Line Manager, supporting career progression and technical development
6. Build strong working relationships across disciplines and business lines
7. Champion best practice, innovation, and continuous improvement
Your technical expertise
You’ll bring strong experience in one or more of the following:
8. As an Associate Director you will play a key role in developing practical, high-quality engineering solutions that move from concept through to construction-ready detail
9. Sustainable transport, including walking, cycling, and active travel
10. Bus user priority and BRT schemes
11. Municipal engineering and urban realm projects
12. Collision analysis and road safety audits
13. You’ll be comfortable working with DMRB, MfS, LTN guidance, MCHW, and local authority standards.
What we’re looking for
14. A proven track record delivering complex transport and streets projects
15. Strong commercial acumen and demonstrable work-winning experience
16. Confidence leading bids, proposals, and fee submissions
17. A natural collaborator with excellent client-facing skills
18. A self-motivated leader ready to take the next step in their career
Why Join AECOM?
And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days
Join AECOM and help create streets that work better—for people, places, and the planet.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
19. Relevant degree
20. Chartered or working towards Chartered status
21. Membership of a relevant 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