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Job summary

Join a leading engineering company as a Team Leader in the Tunnelling and Underground Structures Team in Birmingham. You will oversee a growing team of engineers, ensuring safety, quality, and strategic direction across exciting projects in the UK and abroad. This role offers significant leadership responsibilities, project involvement, and opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working model
Career development opportunities
Wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

  • Experience in the Tunnelling team and leadership roles.
  • Postgraduate experience in civil engineering.
  • Knowledge of rock and soft ground excavation.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure safety is prioritized on all projects.
  • Develop relationships with clients and stakeholders.
  • Lead project proposals and business development.

Skills

Excellent communication
Leadership
Stakeholder management
Safety performance

Education

Degree in Civil or Geotechnical Engineering
Chartered Engineer certification

Job description

Are you ready to be part of a team of talented engineers and shape the future of Tunnelling & Underground Structures

The AECOM Tunnelling team is looking for an individual to lead our growing Tunnelling and Underground Structures Team in Birmingham.

This role combines leadership and people management the technical engineering challenges of a fastpaced engineering sector and market and client engagement. The team has approximately 15 20 engineers and a pipeline of exciting and challenging design projects in the UK and abroad.

You will work closely with our similar sized London based team and you will be expected to input into the strategy and direction of the UK tunnelling business reporting to the UK Director of Tunnelling. In addition to the office leadership role you will be expected to be involved in the delivery of a range of projects from a technical perspective.


We are looking for someone who is passionate about design and delivery as well as mentoring and developing colleagues and junior members of the team. A good communicator who can network well both within the different technical teams within AECOM and externally with clients and industry bodies.

Job Duties include:

Safety culture and performance: You will ensure safety is the primary concern of all team members working in the office or onsite. This will include ensuring risk assessments are carried out for all work and safety control measures implemented as appropriate. You will encourage the reporting of incidents and near misses by team members and will report regular safety observations to enable learning and improvement.

Stakeholder relationships: You will coordinate and contribute to the local work winning and business development activities actively developing and maintaining relationships with Public Sector and contractor clients and stakeholders. You will be required to lead the production of proposals for new commissions and undertake reviews of commercial proposals matched to resourcing schedules.

Quality control: Accuracy of data and forecasting provided to the Regional Lead for Tunnelling. Information reported on will included leading and lagging indicators of safety financial performance work pipeline and any other issues as they impact ability to deliver.

Leadership: You will play a key role in defining and influencing the workplace culture. You will set the tone for communication and collaboration within the team raising morale and job satisfaction increasing productivity and efficiency in a positive and supportive environment.

Collaboration: You will set a clear ethos and values for the team foster collaboration and communications and create an inclusive work environment. You will create clear goals and rewards for the team. As engagement with clients and potential clients is an essential element of this role it is expected that you will establish and maintain relationships with a number of clients and industry bodies to position AECOM to successfully tender work and maintain a leading role within the industry.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear multimilliondollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project

And lets not forget about the perks at AECOM. Youll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and wellbeing customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a worklife balance that suits your lifestyle technical practice networks AECOM University and volunteering days.


Qualifications :

Ready to push the limits of whats possible

Heres what were looking for:

  • Degree educated or equivalent in a relevant field such as Civil or Geotechnical Engineering coupled with post graduate experience in a Leadership role with a Tunnelling team.
  • Chartered Engineer (EI ICE IStructE or equivalent recognized professional institution)
  • Excellent communication (written and spoken) and interpersonal skills
  • Previous experience in rock and soft ground and encompassing tunnels shafts and deep excavations for transportation energy and utility related schemes.
  • Experience working on large multidisciplinary projects and an ability to engage with and understand the requirements of different disciplines and interfaces will be key. In this context you will be expected to be available to undertake a number of possible project roles such as Technical Lead Design Manager or Project Manager as well as leading bids.

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 .

At AECOM we value everyones 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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About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds 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 privatesector 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 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 youre 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 wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industryleading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or longterm condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Fulltime


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