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Job Description
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Our Highways team, within our Transportation business line, have a vacancy for an Principal highways Drainage Engineer with experience in drainage delivery of transportation engineering schemes across our regional based offices of Manchester, Newcastle, Chesterfield and St Albans .
You will be joining our Highways team, of over 100 staff, who are recognised as market leaders in the areas of significant and major highways and continue to deliver high profile and impactful projects across the UK and globally. You will be part of established teams with a positive team structure with strong engineering staff across the grades from apprentice to principal engineer, and supported by a locally based senior management team.
The successful candidate will be joining a growing team that works with a range of both local and national clients. You will be someone interested in leading the delivery teams of our diverse range of projects.
You will have a proven experience in civil engineering, infrastructure, or transportation projects, and be a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career in a dynamic team. In addition to delivering work within the local office the role will involve working with other AECOM teams in the UK and Ireland. We are therefore seeking candidates who are able to work flexibly across other AECOM offices as projects dictate to support the wider business.
Further, the role offers opportunities to work in AECOMs wider UK European, Middle East, and India regions.
Current & Upcoming Projects:
1. A229 Blue Bell Hill
2. M54-M6 Link Road
3. M62 Link Roads
4. A19 North of Newcastle
5. AlUla- Middle East
6. National Grid – The Great Grid Upgrade, Wanless Beck
7. Supporting work for Heathrow, Gatwick Airports, East West Rail and Northern Powerhouse
8. Site opportunities- Lune Gorge, M60 J18
Here’s what you’ll do:
Anticipate: You will understand our drainage delivery requirements and anticipate and solve routine and usual problems for both our teams and our clients
Deliver: The Highways team are responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of projects aimed at improving our transport network for clients. We 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. In addition, we support other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised transportation interface.
Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent drainage engineers for technical delivery. Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
Provide Expertise: Offer technical drainage knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise. Provide Health, Safety and Wellness leadership to the district team consistent with AECOM’s safety policies and procedures to deliver a safe and healthy working environment for the project team members. Oversee the preparation of feasibility, preliminary and detailed drainage designs for all types of transportation projects. Oversee the preparation of detailed drainage technical reports providing specialist technical contributions as required.
Collaborate: Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.
Key Responsibilities:
9. Deliver engineering designs to the required quality standards, budgets and project timescales
10. Undertake Health & Safety duties, fulfilling all responsibilities for health and safety in design including safety in design and CDM
11. Undertake technical design of highway drainage systems in accordance with UK standards and best practice including DMRB and MCHW
12. Proficiency with drainage modelling software including, and able to use manual techniques for design where appropriate
13. Construct 3D models of projects in a BIM environment
14. Undertake design checks of drainage designs completed by others
15. Work collaboratively with colleagues and clients, using tools for information sharing such as Business Collaborator and ProjectWise
16. Identify data and information required for project and advise team leader
17. Supervise and mentor junior team members agree
18. Preparation of technical reports
19. Work within financial and programme constraints, monitoring hours expended against the project budget
20. Contribute and actively encourage knowledge sharing, innovation and creativity
21. Complete all required health and safety training, including CSCS qualification where required
22. Establishing strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines including Planning, Streets, Structures, Infrastructure, Water, Power, Landscape.
23. Working with colleagues to deliver marketing and business development objectives in both the local region and nationally.
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
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
24. Degree in Civil Engineering;
25. Chartered or incorporated engineer – (sign off drainage designs for NH CG502)
26. Minimum of 5 years’ experience (post-graduation) in highway drainage design in UK;
27. Competent in use of highway drainage design software
28. A comprehensive knowledge of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges drainage standards.
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
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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.
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ReqID: J10148452
Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid