Associate Water Electrical Engineer

AECOM; London Borough of Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Professional development

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an Associate Electrical Engineer to join our Water Team in the UK. The role offers hybrid work and opportunities to contribute to multi-million-pound water and wastewater schemes across AMP8 and AMP9.

You’ll deliver electrical and ICA design, support feasibility studies, and collaborate with diverse teams to provide sustainable water solutions. You will mentor engineers, manage project delivery, and engage with clients to maintain high standards of technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering required.
• Experience in water and wastewater treatment.
• Chartered Engineer status or Incorporated Engineer with relevant professional institution.
• Proven ability to produce, review, and approve engineering reports, designs, drawings and specifications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ownership of technical issues.
• Excellent client and stakeholder engagement, leadership, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Electrical and ICA design work for water and wastewater projects; provide technical guidance.
• Deliver feasibility studies, outline and detailed designs, and construction/commissioning support.
• Maintain high technical quality, contribute to bids, and manage client relationships.
• Manage project budgets, schedules, and deliverables to meet targets.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and clients to drive solutions and innovation.
• Lead and develop junior engineers and staff to grow technical capability.

Skills

Electrical design

ICA design

Water/wastewater

Client engagement

Leadership

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Chartered Engineer

Tools

AutoCAD

ETAP

Job description

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.

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.

Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of water infrastructure?

We’re looking for an Associate Electrical Engineer to join our growing Water Team , with the opportunity to be based at one of our offices in the South of England (Aldgate, Croydon, St Albans, Basingstoke or Exeter locations), whilst also taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

In this role, you’ll have the chance to contribute meaningfully to sustainable water solutions across multiple regions. You will support the delivery of projects including multi-million-pound water and wastewater schemes and have the opportunity to contribute to long term major frameworks over AMP8 and AMP9 including:

• South West Water – Framework for Engineering Consultancy Services: Lot 3 - Multi-Discipline Engineering Design
• Wessex Water – Capital Delivery Partner Framework Agreement: Lot 2 - Design Consultant
• Severn Trent Water – Lot 1 Major Projects Framework: Supporting AMP8 delivery plan valued at a TotEx of £14.9 billion
• Severn Trent D&B Projects – Supporting Tier 1 contractors on major non-infrastructure wastewater schemes
• Southern Water Strategic Delivery Partner (SDP) Frameworks :
• Lot 1: Non-infrastructure water projects
• Lot 2: Non-infrastructure wastewater projects
• Southern Water Low Complexity and Infrastructure Frameworks :
• Lot 2: Wastewater Infrastructure
• Lot 3: Infrastructure Framework – Partnering exclusively with Tier 1 contractors to deliver efficient and sustainable water and wastewater solutions

Working flexibly, you’ll visit client sites and collaborate with teams across multi-year frameworks. As part of our thriving business, you’ll take on rewarding multi-disciplinary projects from inception to delivery, creating innovative solutions that enhance the environment and improve communities.

Here’s what you'll do:

• Electrical and ICA Design : Undertake the design and review of electrical and ICA elements in wastewater and water infrastructure and treatment projects, and offer advice, where necessary in a technical expert role.
• Delivery: Feasibility studies, outline and detailed design, and construction / commissioning support.
• Quality : Ensure high technical quality, contribute to bids, and maintain client relationships.
• Project Management: Manage project budgets, schedules, and deliverables to meet agreed targets.
• Collaborate: With multidisciplinary teams and with clients and stakeholders to buy in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM's wider technical capability and innovative approach.
• Leadership: Manage direct reports, inspire technical excellence, and support the growth of fellow engineers.

Why Join AECOM?

You’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

• Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in water and wastewater treatment.
• Chartered Member of a relevant Professional Institution.
• Proven expertise in producing, reviewing, and approving engineering reports, designs, drawings, and specifications.
• A problem-solver at heart, confident in taking ownership of challenging technical issues and seeing them through to resolution.
• Exceptional client and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience in team leadership, mentoring, and line management.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities so, if you're an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable adjustment to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]

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 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. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

ReqID: J10162134

Business Line: Water

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid