Associate Director - Local Roads Traffic & Highways

AECOM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

AECOM University

Job summary

AECOM in the UK seeks an Associate Director to lead Local Roads, Traffic & Highways across Liverpool and the North. You’ll shape strategic transport schemes, drive delivery as Project Director or Manager, and build lasting client relationships with a focus on sustainable street design.

Working with a hybrid model, you’ll mentor teams, win work through bids, and collaborate across UK & Ireland. This senior role demands commercial acumen, leadership, and a passion for transforming streets for

Qualifications

• A proven track record delivering complex transport and streets projects
• Strong commercial acumen and demonstrable work-winning experience
• Confidence leading bids, proposals, and fee submissions
• A natural collaborator with excellent client-facing skills

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of traffic and sustainable transport projects as Project Director/Manager
• Build strong client relationships, identify new opportunities and lead bids
• Collaborate across AECOM’s UK & Ireland business with opportunities to collaborate internationally
• Provide technical leadership and ensure high-quality engineering solutions

Skills

Project leadership

Bid management

Client relationship management

Traffic engineering

Sustainable transport

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Chartered status or working towards Chartered status

Membership of a relevant professional institution

Tools

DMRB guidance

MfS guidance

LTN guidance

MCHW

Local authority standards

Job description

Associate Director - Local Roads Traffic & Highways

• Full-time
• State/Province: Liverpool
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
• Business Line: Transportation
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - Liverpool, Exchange Station Tit

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.

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.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Start here. Grow here.

Lead the way in sustainable transport and join AECOM as an Associate Director.

At AECOM, we’re shaping streets that move people—not just traffic. From active travel and bus user priority, to challenging urban engineering solutions, our work is redefining how cities function and thrive. Now, we’re looking for an Associate Director to help lead the growth of our Liverpool Streets team and make a lasting impact across the North and beyond.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines technical excellence, commercial awareness, and inspiring people leadership—and who wants to play a visible role in growing a successful, forward-thinking business.

This opportunity is open to candidates based across Manchester and Liverpool, with an expectation of regular attendance at our Liverpool office.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of traffic and sustainable transport projects, acting as Project Director or Project Manager and ensuring outstanding technical quality, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.

Just as importantly, you’ll help shape our future—building strong client relationships, identifying new opportunities, and leading bids that win exciting work. You’ll work closely with colleagues across AECOM’s UK & Ireland business, with opportunities to collaborate internationally.

Why this role is different

You’ll be joining a market-leading Streets team recognised for excellence in:

• Active travel and healthy streets
• Public transport, bus priority and BRT
• Urban realm and complex traffic engineering

We’re a collaborative, supportive team that values ideas, encourages innovation, and invests in people. If you’re motivated by influence, growth, and real-world impact, you’ll feel at home here.

Your technical expertise

You’ll bring strong experience in one or more of the following:

• As an Associate Directoryou will play a key role in developing practical, high-quality engineering solutions that move from concept through to construction-ready detail
• Sustainable transport, including walking, cycling, and active travel
• Bus user priority and BRT schemes
• Municipal engineering and urban realm projects
• Collision analysis and road safety audits
• You’ll be comfortable working with DMRB, MfS, LTN guidance, MCHW, and local authority standards.

What we’re looking for

• A proven track record delivering complex transport and streets projects
• Strong commercial acumen and demonstrable work-winning experience
• Confidence leading bids, proposals, and fee submissions
• A natural collaborator with excellent client-facing skills
• A self-motivated leader ready to take the next step in their career

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

Join AECOM and help create streets that work better—for people, places, and the planet.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Chartered or working towards Chartered status
• Membership of a relevant professional institution

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 [e-mail]

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!

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @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.

We are aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through theDisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

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