Associate Director - Roads, Public Transport & Greenways

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Structured career model

Benefits tailored to lifestyle

Job summary

AECOM’s Surface Transportation Team in Ireland seeks an Associate Director to lead road, public transport and greenways projects across Dublin, Cork, Galway and beyond. You will guide feasibility studies, design development, and contract administration while interfacing with clients across Ireland.

Join a 150+ strong team delivering major programmes with flexible hybrid working, career progression, and a strong emphasis on quality, safety and client outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in Road and Highways engineering and approves sign off on complex transportation designs.
• Knowledge of relevant standards (NTA/TII) and guidance for project appraisal.
• Ability to act as Employers’ Representative on works contracts above €5m and manage dispute resolution.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a wide portfolio of road projects from pursuit through to completion.
• Oversee appointment and leadership of discipline leads for technical delivery.
• Provide expert technical knowledge to the design team from concept to implementation.
• Ensure quality and client satisfaction across transportation projects.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and clients to deliver integrated designs.

Skills

Roads & Highways engineering

Project management

Client liaison

Contract administration

Education

Chartered engineer (Engineers Ireland/ICE)

Tools

PWC/GCC/NEC/FIDIC contracts

Job description

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Shaping Ireland's Transport Future (Roads, Public Transport, and Greenways)

Accelerate Your Career in Infrastructure

AECOM's Surface Transportation Team in Ireland—a 150+ strong professional network operating across Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Belfast – is thriving due to significant growth led by a robust pipeline of major Roads, Public Transport and Greenways programmes.

We are seeking a driven Associate Director to join our 150+ strong transportation team in Ireland.

Working within a well-established group the candidate will provide technical, commercial, and team leadership to our multidisciplinary teams which will be based on strong track record in the Roads & Greenways consultancy sector. You will be expected to interface in person with clients across Ireland.

We are looking for confidence in preparing feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed designs, and administration of contracts through construction and handover. You will have experience of road projects of various sizes, with a particular focus on TII schemes including roads, bus priority, greenways and light rail schemes, NTA major schemes, Public Transport Schemes such as BusConnects, and transportation D&B Schemes. You will be responsible for working with internal and external clients, to cross sell our service capabilities and to ensure successful delivery.

You will play an active role in preparing reports and tenders and demonstrate strong project management skills and commercial acumen. The candidate will be recognized by peers and clients as a subject matter expert or design lead in Road Design, Public Transport Design, Greenway and Active Travel Design, or other similar complex transportation infrastructure.

Why AECOM in Ireland?

Current & Upcoming Projects:

• Roads: Major road schemes including the N25 Midleton to Youghal Transport Project (Co. Cork). N17 Milltown (Co. Galway), A24 Ballynahinch Bypass (Co. Down), N54 Tullybryan Realignment (Co. Monaghan) M21 Adare Bypass Phases 1 and 2 (Co. Limerick), Carlow Southern Relief Road & Multi Modal Corridor (Co. Carlow), N4 Mullingar to Longford (Co. Westmeath and Co. Longford).
• Public Transport: Delivery teams for the TII Luas Programme, the NTA BusConnects Programmes, and multiple major rail projects.
• Greenways: A vast programme of Greenways (>300km) in the Republic of Ireland for TII and Local Authorities, including major greenway schemes like Barnesmore Gap Greenway in County Donegal, the West Cork Greenways – Skibbereen Sections, the Portlaoise to Attanagh Greenway, and the Galway-Oughterard Greenway.

Your Role & Responsibilities

You will:

• Deliver : A wide portfolio of Road projects from pursuit through to completion or single large-scale commissions.
• Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery. Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
• Ensure Quality : Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise.
• Collaborate: Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.

Duties:

• Mitigate and manage contract risk associated with scope creep and monitor key project performance indicators and ensure that project data is accurate and provided in a timely manner.
• Provide technical scrutiny and verification of project deliverables and independently prepare reports and communicate with senior management.
• Demonstrate team leadership skills and undertake mentoring and line management duties.
• Bring innovation and new ideas to clients and project teams.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, and the ability to contribute to bid development.
• Demonstrated competence in management of safety during design and construction with understanding of the legislative requirements for designers, and the ability to contribute and lead this element on projects and champion AECOM quality assurance and quality control standards.

What we offer:

• Flexible hybrid working
• A structured and transparent career model, allowing you to plan your progression with confidence and clarity.
• A merit led reward programme, recognising individual and team contributions to quality, safety and commercial successes.
• Career development opportunities via AECOM University and our industry leading Technical Excellence programme.
• A range of core and personalised benefits tailored to your lifestyle and well-being.
• Social value opportunities, allowing you to volunteer and further support the communities your projects will benefit
• Sports and Social Club with regular events across the team to build relationships across our teams.

Ready to lead the delivery of sustainable transport solutions in Ireland?

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Ideally chartered with a relevant institution (e.g. Engineers Ireland, ICE or similar)
• Experience in Road and Highways engineering and approves sign off on complex transportation designs.
• Experience in NTA and TII Standards, Project Management Guidelines, and Project Appraisal Guidelines
• You will have a good working knowledge of contracts including PWC/GCC/ NEC/FIDIC, preference for candidate who have acted (or supported) as employers rep or equivalent on works contracts above €5m, and the associated dispute resolution processes.

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]

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 [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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