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Job Description
Join AECOM as our Civils Design Regional Lead for Rail, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of transportation infrastructure across London and the South East. Leading a dynamic team of approximately 100 professionals, you'll drive technical excellence and strategic growth across an exciting portfolio of heavy and light rail projects spanning both renewals and enhancement programmes.
This is a strategic leadership position that combines high-level stakeholder engagement, technical oversight, and team development. You'll work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary leads while maintaining hands-on involvement as a Contractors Responsible Engineer (CRE) or Engineering Manager on key civils projects.
Working Arrangements
This hybrid role requires attendance at our Croydon office 2-3 days per week to foster team collaboration and support the continued growth of our Rail civils capability.
You'll engage directly with
1. Network Rail
2. Transport for London (TfL)
3. Key contractor partners
4. AECOM regional teams and Global Design Centres
Safety
5. Lead the safety culture for the Civils team in the region
6. Cascade relevant briefing material within the team
Excellence in Execution
7. Ensure that relevant projects within the region are resourced with the appropriate civils staff
8. Work collaboratively with the Professional head of Civil Engineering to identify training requirements and funding
9. Play a key part in delivering the operation’s KPIs for the London South East Rail region through high quality delivery
10. Promote the appropriate use of governance and processes to support the business
11. Maintains utilisation within the team through effective workshare and resource planning
People
12. Develop and manage the London South East Rail Civils team
13. Ensure that the discipline has appropriate structure, succession, and development plans, including early careers recruitment and development
14. Instil a culture where others share knowledge, insights, and learning
15. Works with the Professional head of Civil Engineering and Regional Director to build a strong working relationship with global resources in the Enterprise Capability Centre (ECC) allowing the region to draw on the benefits of this resource
16. Demonstrates commitment to the team’s achievement of professional accomplishment eg. Chartership and actively mentors team members in their development
Work Winning/ clients
17. Develop/maintain key client and supply chain relationships
18. Build a pipeline of projects and opportunities though engagement with the Regional Director, regional PMs, and other RSGE geographies
19. Technically lead bids as required
20. Promote a culture of success
21. Engage with the wider AECOM business to support strategy and growth targets
Qualifications
22. Extensive experience in Civils Rail Design within the Rail sector
23. Demonstrable experience in team management
24. Strategic thinker
25. Understanding of the process and practices involved in the design and delivery of projects in the contemporary railway sector
26. Flexible and proactive approach
27. Chartered engineer
Ideally you will be experienced in the use of Network Rail, London Underground, Railway Group Standards as well as the relevant British Standards and Eurocodes.
We recognise a variety of experience and backgrounds may suit this role and that experience levels in specific technical areas may vary. If you feel you only meet some of the requirements below or have transferrable skills, we would still love to hear from you!
Additional Information
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
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: J10128337
Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid