Associate Director - Highways & Traffic Design

AECOM; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work options

Wide array of compensation and benefits programs

Job summary

A global engineering firm in Liverpool is seeking an Associate Director to manage traffic engineering projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in project management, client relationship building, and team leadership. This role offers a hybrid work environment and the chance to work on sustainable infrastructure projects that impact communities positively. Ideal candidates will have relevant degrees and be working towards Chartered status.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree and working towards Chartered status.
• Experience in traffic engineering and management of engineering projects.
• Proven ability to develop client relationships and secure work.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver traffic engineering projects.
• Build client relationships and identify commercial opportunities.
• Prepare detailed proposals and contribute to bids.

Skills

Traffic engineering

Client relationship building

Team management

Design of sustainable infrastructure

Education

Relevant degree

Chartered status in progress

Tools

DMRB

MfS

Job description

Associate Director - Highway and Infrastructure schemes

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.
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. 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

Lead the way in sustainable transport and join AECOM as an Associate Director.
Our Streets Team has a vacancy within our Liverpool office for an Associate Director with relevant experience in leading the delivery of a broad range of traffic and highway engineering projects and responsible for work winning activities. The successful candidate will share our ethos of developing impactful design solutions and delivering high levels of service to assist with the growth of our Liverpool and Northern Streets business by enhancing existing and developing new client relationships.

Responsibilities

• A successful track record in the management and delivery of a portfolio of traffic engineering projects - particularly sustainable infrastructure projects and roads/traffic engineering projects - ensuring technical content and quality of output produced is in line with the project brief.
• Evidence of work winning; client relationship building, being alert to commercial opportunities, identifying emerging opportunities and developing strategies to secure work and develop work opportunities.
• Demonstrative evidence of taking ownership in preparing detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals and contributing to or leading bids.
• A proven ability to manage a team, with strong leadership skills and the ability to develop and maintain a highly motivated project delivery team.
• An ability to establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines.
• Practitioner in the use of DMRB, MfS, local authority design guidance’s, LTN’s and the MCHW.

Technical Expertise

• Detailed design of municipal engineering schemes.
• Traffic engineering design (concept through to detail).
• Cycling and walking design (concept through to detail).
• Bus priority and BRT (concept through to detail).
• Collision analysis / road safety audits.
• Site experience (preferred but not essential).

Relevant degree and will have or be working towards Chartered status along with membership of a professional institution.

Additional Information

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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.

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. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10139219

Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid