Principal Civil Engineer, Water & Wastewater
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Company Description
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
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.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
Work with Us. Change the World.
Join us where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. The flexibility of a hybrid working model from our offices in Basingstoke, Cambridge, Central London, Croydon, and St Albans supports a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.
Job Description
We’re looking for talented Principal Civil Water and Wastewater Engineers to join AECOM’s Southeast Water Team — leading and delivering exciting projects that help our clients achieve their AMP8 outcomes.
You’ll work on new and upgraded water and wastewater networks and treatment works of all sizes and design stages. Our key clients in the Southeast include Affinity Water, Anglian Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, and Tier 1 contractors such as Barhale, Kier, and MGroup, to whom we provide a full suite of engineering and associated services.
Here’s what you’ll do:
* Oversee: Manage the delivery of complex tasks and projects, ensuring budget adherence and technical excellence. Lead the technical delivery on multiple projects, reviewing work produced by others to ensure timely and accurate results.
* Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team at all stages, including feasibility studies, outline design, detailed designs, and preparing technical specifications.
* Ensure Quality: Ensure design compliance with all applicable standards and regulations, providing technical expertise for interdisciplinary analytical studies.
* Collaborate: Work closely with clients to develop scope, price proposals, and communicate project progress. Collaborate with our Project Managers and Lead Design Engineers to solve problems and deliver benefits to the communities we serve.
* Develop: Support the development of junior team members and undertake line management responsibilities.
Qualifications
* Proven experience within the water sector at the Principal Engineer level, ideally within the UK&I or with a good appreciation of UK&I norms and standards.
* Experience in designing and managing the technical delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure upgrade schemes from feasibility and outline design to detailed design and construction support.
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
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, 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 transfer‑able skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Additional Information
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public‑ and private‑sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. We’re a Fortune 500 firm with a strong commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. AECOM is a Disability Confident Employer and offers an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
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. A wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs is available to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.
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