Senior Civil Engineer

AECOM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM’s Civils Team requires a Senior Civil Engineer to undertake technical designs and project management across civil infrastructure developments.

You’ll work with a multidisciplinary team, supporting junior staff, managing client relationships and helping drive successful, on-time delivery with a focus on quality and budget.

Qualifications

• To be commercially aware and able to deliver projects to time, budget and quality.
• Provide wide ranging highways, drainage and associated infrastructure design for multi-disciplinary developments.
• Knowledge of drainage design including piped systems, SuDS, and storage design.
• Experience in preparation of Contract Drawings and Specifications; negotiation of Section 38, 278, 104 and 106.
• Ability to design highways, access roads and infrastructure, including road geometry, earthworks, pavements and drainage.
• Coach and support junior staff to enable their development.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Principal / Associate Director, deliver projects to programme quality and budget.
• Develop internal team relationships and train staff to support succession planning.
• Provide technical support to junior team members and maintain client-focused service for repeat business.

Education

Civil Engineering degree

Chartered Civil Engineer (MICE)

Tools

InfoDrainage

Job 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.

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.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM's Civils Team has an immediate requirement for a Senior Civil Engineer to undertake technical designs and project management and drive forward various civil infrastructure related commercial and residential development projects and to help develop the Company’s business.

The Business Unit is highly multi-disciplinary comprising civil & highway, structural, mechanical, and electrical/process engineers, architects, project managers and surveyors. Our market sectors range from industrial development and logistics, airports, infrastructure development/regeneration and Government Agency/Local Authority projects.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Reporting to the Principal / Associate Director, this role will provide support to the Team and work towards ensuring all projects are delivered to programme quality and budget.
• You will also need to develop internal team relationships and to ensure you provide support to train staff and to develop their individual skills and to encourage their personal development to promote succession planning.
• Key to this role is the ability to provide technical support to junior team members and have a client focused service which results in on-going satisfaction and repeat business.

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, 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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Requirements:

• To be commercially aware and able to assist a team of engineers and technicians and successfully deliver projects to time, budget and quality.
• To provide wide ranging highways, drainage and associated infrastructure design to deliver multi-disciplinary developments.
• Have detailed knowledge of drainage design including piped systems, SuDS based systems familiar with storage design and computer programmes such as InfoDrainage.
• Have experience in the preparation of Contract Drawings and Specifications and the negotiation of Section 38, 278, 104 and 106 Agreements.
• To be able to produce and have knowledge in the design of highways, access roads and infrastructure of projects including the design of road geometry, earthworks, pavements, drainage and underground services.
• Assist the coaching and support of junior staff members to enable their development.

Preferred Qualification:

• Significant experience in UK development related infrastructure engineering; likely to be from a public/private/consultancy background.
• Civil Engineering degree or equivalent. Chartered Civil Engineer or working towards Chartered status (MICE).

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