Principal Engineer - Highways & Traffic Engineering

AECOM; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm in Glasgow is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead traffic and highway engineering projects. The ideal candidate will have a relevant degree and proven experience in managing project delivery, client relationships, and proposals. Join a supportive team fostering career growth and benefit from a flexible hybrid work model. This role promises to make a significant impact on infrastructure development in Scotland.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success in traffic engineering projects.
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on team motivation.
• Experience in managing project delivery and client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of traffic and highway engineering projects.
• Develop client relationships and identify business opportunities.
• Manage project performance and financial indicators.

Skills

Traffic engineering management

Bid and proposal management

Team leadership

Education

Relevant degree, preferably chartered

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

Start here. Grow here.

Our Streets Team has a vacancy in our Glasgow office for a Principal Engineer with relevant experience in leading the delivery of a broad range of traffic and highway engineering projects and being 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 Scotland Streets business by enhancing existing and developing new client relationships.

The Streets team provides feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation and urban realm projects. You will be joining a strong team who are recognised as market leaders in the transportation sector including in active travel, public transport, bus priority and general traffic engineering. More than that, we are an approachable, supporting and encouraging team who strive to work collaboratively with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.

About You

The role would suit a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career. In addition to delivering work within the local office, the role will involve working closely with other AECOM teamsविश्व across the wider UK & Ireland business, with opportunity for international working.

Key Responsibilities

• - develop sound client relationships, be alert to commercial opportunities, identify emerging opportunities and develop strategies to fully exploit them.
• Work winning - prepare detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to or lead bids. Working with colleagues to deliver marketing and business development objectives in both the local region and nationally.
• Project leadership - following successful accreditation on the AECOM project management system, act as a Project Director and Project Field Manager, including monitoring financial performance and key performance indicators. Comprehensive training on AECOM’s project management system willviron be provided.
• Technical leadership - ensure technical content and quality of output produced are in lineهنية with the project brief.
• Team management – be a pro‑active-ai line manager, managing career progression of line reports. This includes supporting and monitoring team skills and ensuring theyReblog are up to date with current best practice, techniques, and innovation.
• Team leadership - support the Streets Scotland senior management team, including deputising for the Streets office manager as required. This also includes pro‑actively supporting recruitment activities to grow the team.
• Internal relationship building - establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines.

Come grow with us

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, customised 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

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• Relevant degree, preferably chartered in a recognised Engineering Institution.
• A successful track record in the management and delivery of a portfolio of traffic engineering projects, particularly sustainable infrastructure projects ushort. roads/traffic engineering projects.
• A successful track record of delivery of bids and proposals and proven ability to manage and growing a team, with strong leadership skills and the ability to develop and maintain a highly motivated project delivery team.

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!

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design, 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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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 शिव the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re 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 the 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: J10143051

Business Line: Transportation

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid