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.

Job Description

AECOM's Manchester office needs a Principal Civil Design Engineer to join the team. You will undertake project management, drive forward various civil infrastructure-related commercial and residential development projects, and help develop the Company’s business.

The Business Unit is highly multidisciplinary, comprising civil and highway, structural, mechanical, and electrical/process engineers, architects, project managers, and surveyors. Our market sectors include industrial development and logistics, airports, infrastructure development/regeneration, and Government Agency/Local Authority projects.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Be commercially aware and able to lead a team of engineers and technicians, to programme workloads and successfully deliver projects to time, budget and quality.
• To provide wide-ranging highways, drainage, and associated infrastructure design and project management expertise to deliver multi-disciplinary developments.
• To undertake business development to win new business within the unit by targeting the property sector.

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:

• Significant experience in UK development-related infrastructure engineering; likely from a private/consultancy background.
• Civil Engineering degree or equivalent. Chartered Civil Engineer or approaching Chartered status (MICE).
• To produce and have knowledge in the design of highways, access roads, and project infrastructure, including the design of road geometry, earthworks, pavements, drainage, and underground services.

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.

AECOM is 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.