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Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Are you ready to join a team of talented structural engineers to help shape and lead the future of water infrastructure?
Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water Team as an Associate Director, Structural Engineer. You can be based in one of our UK offices whilst also taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.
Our direct clients include most major water companies, and also a number of Tier 1 contractors working in the sector. Our projects cover new and upgraded clean and wastewater networks, and all scales of treatment works upgrades. The variety of work and clients, combined with ambitious AMP8 programmes from our clients makes this an exciting time to join the AECOM team, and a fantastic opportunity to develop your career as a technical leader, delivering solutions on a diverse range of projects that meet the technical challenges of today and tomorrow.
Here’s what you’ll do:
* Technical Excellence: You will deploy technical excellence in the design of a wide range of heavy civil engineering structures, from deep belowground pumping stations to large above ground water‑retaining concrete structures, and complex piled foundations to steel‑framed buildings.
* Deliver: Using your experience, knowledge and judgement, you will develop structural solutions to interesting and often complex challenges. You will lead and oversee detailed design activities by others, as well as prepare detailed designs yourself.
* Expertise: You will challenge the norm, identifying and implementing innovative ideas, best practice and new ways of thinking and working to help deliver value for our clients.
* Lead: You will lead the structural design of projects as well as mentor and support the professional development of team members. Through your leadership you will foster positive client relationships.
* Communicate: You will be the interface with other project design disciplines and harness your excellent communication skills when dealing with clients and other project stakeholders.
* Documentation: You will be involved in the preparation and reviewing high‑quality drawings, calculations, specifications and reports to communicate solutions.
* Quality: Quality will be central to everything you do. You will review and sign‑off project deliverables with a focus on compliance and efficiency.
If you’re passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don’t just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we’re working on and see firsthand the difference we’re making in the industry!
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:
* A degree or equivalent qualification and experience in civil and structural engineering.
* Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional institution; for example, ICE, IStructE.
* Experience in developing robust and efficient structural solutions and managing technical delivery in a multidisciplinary environment.
* Experience in structural design using appropriate standards and specification.
* Strong collaboration and coordination skills between teams, clients and stakeholders.
* Passion for delivering technical solutions and leading technical teams.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. 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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Required Information
ReqID: J10148709
Business Line: Water
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid
Equal Opportunity and Disability
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please contact ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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