Job Description
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At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our Belfast office.
Here’s what you’ll do:
AECOM is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Structural Engineer to join our Belfast team. This role will lead the delivery of complex, high-profile projects across the residential, healthcare, education, and infrastructure sectors. You will be responsible for providing technical leadership, overseeing project teams, ensuring quality and compliance, and mentoring junior engineers. You will also play a key role in client engagement and contribute to the strategic growth of our structural engineering practice in Ireland.
We work across a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare, data centres, commercial, hospitality, education, and civic projects, delivering innovative solutions for both public and private clients
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and deliver the technical aspects of projects or designated work packages, ensuring high-quality outcomes.
* Manage the end-to-end technical delivery of projects, from interpreting client briefs to coordinating designs across multidisciplinary teams.
* Oversee and support engineers and technicians, ensuring deliverables are aligned with project schedules and performance expectations.
* Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior stakeholders across the business.
* Ensure all designs and project outputs comply with health and safety standards, as well as company quality assurance processes and procedures.
* Mentor and develop junior team members, providing guidance and support to foster their professional growth and career progression within the organisation.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
We are looking for a driven and experienced professional with a strong background in structural engineering.
As the successful candidate, you will have:
* Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Civil or Structural Engineering.
* Chartered Engineer status (or working towards chartership) with a recognised professional body such as ICE or IStructE.
* Proven experience delivering structural engineering projects, including managing technical design and coordination across multidisciplinary teams.
* Strong leadership skills with experience overseeing engineers and technicians to meet project deadlines and quality standards.
* Demonstrated ability to engage with senior stakeholders and build effective professional relationships.
* In-depth knowledge of relevant design standards, health and safety regulations, and quality assurance processes.
* Experience mentoring and developing junior team members.
* Proficiency in industry-standard structural analysis and design software.
* Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.
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. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @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.
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. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.