Associate Director - Electrical Engineer

AECOM; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an experienced Associate Director - Electrical Engineer to join our Dublin team. This leadership role manages the delivery of complex multidisciplinary projects across healthcare, education, transport, event centres, and data centres, blending technical excellence with client relationship skills.

You will lead project teams from concept to completion, ensure quality and sustainability, and work with diverse consultants to deliver integrated engineering solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering or Building Services.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards chartership.
• Extensive experience in building services electrical engineering consultancy.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on large, complex projects.
• Strong knowledge of Irish Building Regulations, electrical design standards, and relevant international codes.
• Demonstrated experience managing project finances, programmes, and client relationships.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the electrical engineering design and delivery of major building projects.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to electrical engineers and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Act as Project Manager or Discipline Lead on complex projects, ensuring delivery to programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted technical advisor.
• Support business development activities, including client engagement, proposal preparation, fee development, and project interviews.
• Coordinate closely with mechanical, structural, civil, architecture, and specialist consultants to deliver integrated engineering solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Irish and international design standards, statutory regulations, and industry best practices.
• Lead design reviews, value engineering workshops, and risk management activities.
• Oversee project resourcing, financial performance, and commercial management of electrical engineering commissions.

Skills

Chartered Engineer

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Client relationships

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Building Services

Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards chartership

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.

AECOM is seeking an experienced and motivated Associate Director - Electrical Engineer to join our Dublin team. This leadership role offers the opportunity to manage the delivery of complex multidisciplinary projects across a diverse portfolio, including healthcare, education, railway stations, event centres, and data centres. The successful candidate will combine technical excellence with strong leadership, client relationship management, and commercial awareness to help drive the continued growth of our Building Engineering business.

Working within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, you will lead project teams from concept through detailed design, construction, commissioning, and project completion while ensuring the highest standards of quality, innovation, and sustainability.

About the Role

• Lead the electrical engineering design and delivery of major building projects across healthcare, education, transport, event centre, and data centre sectors.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to electrical engineers and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Act as Project Manager or Discipline Lead on complex projects, ensuring delivery to programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted technical advisor.
• Support business development activities, including client engagement, proposal preparation, fee development, and project interviews.
• Coordinate closely with mechanical, structural, civil, architecture, and specialist consultants to deliver integrated engineering solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Irish and international design standards, statutory regulations, and industry best practices.
• Lead design reviews, value engineering workshops, and risk management activities.
• Oversee project resourcing, financial performance, and commercial management of electrical engineering commissions.

Qualifications

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• ​Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering.
• ​Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or working towards chartership through a recognised professional institution.
• ​Extensive experience in building services electrical engineering consultancy.
• ​Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on large, complex projects.
• ​Strong knowledge of Irish Building Regulations, electrical design standards, and relevant international codes.
• ​Demonstrated experience managing project finances, programmes, and client relationships.
• ​Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

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. 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.

Work Location Model: Hybrid