Technical Director - Highways & Active Travel

AECOM; St Albans; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Technical/Regional Director to lead and grow our Highways & Complete Streets team in London and the Southeast, with oversight from St Albans or Aldgate. The role focuses on client relationships, bid leadership, and delivering multi-disciplinary transportation projects.

You will manage teams, drive business development, and shape work winning while collaborating across geographies, fostering innovation and delivering high-quality outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree and Chartered status with a recognised professional institution or equivalent industry experience.
• Proven leadership and delivery experience in highways/transport projects.
• Experience in client management, bid work and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead client relationships in London and the SE, identifying commercial opportunities.
• Direct project delivery across Highways & Complete Streets schemes, ensuring quality and standards.
• Oversee resourcing, recruitment and mentoring within local and wider teams.
• Collaborate with internal teams across geographies and business lines to maximise outcomes.

Skills

Team leadership

Business development

Client management

Project management

Technical leadership

Education

Degree and Chartered status

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 thriving Highways & Complete Streets team, part of AECOM’s Transportation Business Line, has a vacancy for a Technical / Regional Director to take a leading role within the team in our St Albans or London (Aldgate) office.

The Highways & Complete Streets team is growing to cater for an increased workload, particularly in Active Travel, Bus Priority, Highway Improvement and Infrastructure schemes. It provides concept, preliminary and detailed designs, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-disciplinary transportation and urban realm projects and supports other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised traffic and highways interface.

The successful candidate will be joining our dedicated team, who are recognised as market leaders in the transportation sector, and are actively involved in the delivery of small to large high profile and impactful projects for a range of both local and national clients.

As a Technical / Regional Director, you will have proven team leadership, business development, client management, project management and project delivery experience. You will have appropriate qualifications and demonstrable experience in a leading role.

The role would suit a self-motivated and independent individual, a natural leader, looking to utilise the latest technologies to advance their career in a dynamic team.

Whilst AECOM offers the benefits of a flexible hybrid working model, it is anticipated that the successful candidate will typically work from the office on two to three days per week, in line with the current working pattern for the Highways & Complete Streets team.

Your Role & Responsibilities:

Client relationship building and work winning

• Take a leading role in the London and SE client account management programme, developing sound client relationships, being alert to commercial opportunities, identifying emerging opportunities and developing strategies to fully exploit them.
• Contribute to work winning through bid management, tender production and preparation of proposals.
• Raise the profile of AECOM by taking a lead role on thought leadership including the pro‑active use of social media and other publicity/communication channels.

Project / programme delivery

• Undertake client‑facing project duties, representing AECOM as the key point of contact.
• Provide technical leadership across Highways and Complete Streets projects or work packages/programmes, taking ownership of the quality of technical deliverables. Ensure all outputs meet the requirements of the project brief and comply with relevant standards, regulations, client expectations, safety requirements, and AECOM quality management procedures.

Team management

• Contribute proactively to resourcing, recruitment and management of the local and wider teams.
• Support senior management of the Highways & Complete Streets team, deputising for Hub Director / Office leads as required.

Internal collaboration

• Establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s geographies and business lines including Transport Planning, Structures, Infrastructure, Water, Power, Landscape and our overseas design centres.

Mentoring & staff development

• Pro‑actively undertake line manager or mentoring responsibilities, providing regular guidance, management and career planning and completing annual performance evaluations.
• Support the technical and professional development of local Highways & Complete Streets team, sharing knowledge and mentoring staff towards professional qualifications.
• Work with office leads to monitor team skills and ensure they are up to date with current best practice, techniques, and innovation.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

A relevant degree and Chartered status with a recognised professional institution or equivalent industry experience.

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.

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

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: J10160854
Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid