Facade Practice Leader

AECOM; London; Hybrid; CAD 131,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure consulting firm in London is seeking a Facade Practice Leader to manage and enhance the Façade Engineering team's capabilities. The role includes strategic leadership, client interaction, and overseeing team performance. Candidates should possess a degree in Engineering or Architecture, extensive façade consultancy experience, and familiarity with relevant software tools. Hybrid working options are available.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Technical practice networks

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience in façade consultancy.
• Ability to communicate effectively and client-facing.
• Detailed understanding of system design considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Façade Engineering UK team, ensuring performance targets are met.
• Provide technical oversight and business strategy for the discipline.
• Manage recruitment, workload, and HR matters.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Team leadership

Project leadership

Façade engineering technical capability

Strong client relations

Work winning

Strategic business focus

Pastoral and HR management

Extensive experience in the façade industry

Effective communication skills

Education

Engineering, Architecture or building-related degree

Masters in Façade Engineering

Chartership in Façade Engineering

Tools

Strand 7

SJ MEPLA

Therm or Flixo

AutoCAD

Revit

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

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A rare and exciting opportunity to lead AECOM’s UK Façade Engineering Team from our London office. This will be a highly visible role within our organisation with opportunities for growth technically and operationally.

We are a close-core team of 10 façade engineers based in London, collaborating with a broader network of specialists within the AECOM family. The team is delivering the design of various projects in the UK, Ireland, and beyond across sectors including Healthcare, Residential, Commercial, Transport, Sports, Mixed Use and Retrofit. Projects are often delivered as part of a multi-discipline AECOM design team with Sustainability, Fire, Structures, MEP, Lighting, Acoustics, Energy, Cost and Project Management consultants and specialists. Our team also delivers work to external clients as a direct appointment.

To be successful in this role, you will assume general responsibilities for façade consultancy input to a wide range of clients and projects, and you will proactively contribute to the growth of AECOM’s Façade Engineering team’s capabilities.

What you’ll do

You will lead the Façade Engineering UK team for AECOM, reporting directly to the Director of Specialisms. The discipline operates alongside other Specialism disciplines, and you will have your own Façade Engineering performance targets and a collective Specialism Group target. The Group meets once a month to collaborate and report on operations.

Your role will provide business strategy, people leadership, and technical oversight for the Façade Engineering Discipline. You will be responsible for the organisational structure of your team, the technical growth and capabilities of the team, recruitment, workload management, and pastoral and HR matters. The team must remain profitable, and you are expected to contribute to work winning.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Commercial awareness
• Team leadership
• Project leadership
• Façade engineering technical capability
• Strong client relations
• Work winning
• Strategic business focus
• Pastoral and HR management
• Extensive experience in the façade industry and dedicated façade consultancy experience
• Ability to communicate effectively, be client-facing, and write concise and clear reports
• Detailed understanding of system design considerations, performance analysis, and testing procedures
• Experience in bidding for or supporting the winning of work
• Knowledge of relevant façade & structural software (e.g., Strand 7, SJ MEPLA, Therm or Flixo, AutoCAD, Revit) and Microsoft Office

• Engineering, Architecture or building-related degree
• Masters in Façade Engineering
• Chartership in Façade Engineering
• Registered to Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC HRB
• Member or Fellow of the Society of Façade Engineering

Benefits

Come grow with us. You’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, flexible hybrid working to fit your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days, and career development opportunities.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle—from advisory and planning to design, engineering, program and construction management. We work on projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, solving complex challenges with a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion and a focus on environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm.

We offer hybrid work options and a safe, respectful workplace where everyone can bring their whole selves to work. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Disability Confident Employer. If you need reasonable accommodations, please contact us.

Application information

All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Referrals may increase interview chances. This role is based in London, UK, with hybrid work options.