Associate Director - Transport Planning

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid working model

Career development (AECOM University)

Volunteering days

Zusammenfassung

Introducing a leadership role with AECOM in Dublin. We seek an Associate Director to lead transport planning projects, mentor diverse teams, and manage client relationships across public sector clients including national bodies.

The role offers a hybrid work model, with opportunities to shape project delivery across Ireland and Northern Ireland, supported by AECOM University and professional development.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in transport/urban planning or engineering or related field.
• Experienced Associate Director, preferably within a multi-disciplinary consultancy.
• Strong understanding of transportation sector, regulatory and policy frameworks.
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Proven track record in developing and growing client relationships.
• Flexibility to attend client meetings in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• Experience in project appraisal and evaluation would be advantageous.

Aufgaben

• Technical Excellence: support client engagement, project delivery and technical resource development.
• Oversee: contribute to leadership focus on people, clients, technical excellence, operational efficiencies and sustainable growth.
• Deliver: drive the technical delivery of transport planning projects with budget and resource management.
• Collaboration: support the wider Consulting Ireland business as Project Manager for key projects with programme, budget and resource management.

Kenntnisse

Client engagement

Project delivery

Technical leadership

People leadership

Communication skills

Negotiation

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in transport/urban planning or engineering

Jobbeschreibung

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

Are you ready to challenge the boundaries of what’s possible?

AECOM continues to expand their successful Transportation Consulting team in Dublin. As part of a wider growth initiative linked to our strategic plan, we are currently seeking to appoint an individual to join our Transportation Consulting team as an Associate Director.

We develop projects from concept through to operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-euro projects for major rail and transport agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project.

Our key clients include Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), the National Transport Authority (NTA) and Irish Rail to whom we have provided transportation planning and engineering services for many years. Current and recent projects include:

• MetroLink Client Delivery Partner
• DART+ Business Case
• Adare Bypass
• BusConnects
• Luas expansion, including Luas Poolbeg and Luas Finglas
• Strategic planning and transport economics advice to TII
• Various greenways nationally
• Major Irish Rail schemes, including Limerick Junction upgrade
• Major TII Road schemes, including the N17, N4 and N25 upgrades
• Area Based Transport Assessments nationally
• Active travel and urban public realm projects nationally.

About You

You are a highly motivated, organised, and proactive leader with a proven track record in delivering transport solutions. With extensive experience in leading diverse teams in a fast-paced environment, you have excelled in planning and delivering projects mainly for public sector clients. As a leader, you are responsible for fostering a culture of success, engagement, and development within the team while ensuring the successful management of projects from inception to completion.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Technical Excellence: you will support technical excellence and business with specific focus on client engagement, project delivery and technical resource development. Oversee: This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our leadership team's focus on people, clients, technical excellence, operational efficiencies and sustainable growth. Deliver: Drive the technical delivery of transport planning projects drawing expertise/resources from across AECOM UK & Ireland. Take responsibility for project delivery including work winning, technical focus, quality, programme, budget and resource management. Collaboration: Support to the wider Consulting Ireland business as Project Manager for some of our key projects with responsibility for programme, budget and resource management. Collaborate with project managers and national Technical Experts to identify/allocate resources effectively and optimise delivery performance.

Come grow with us.

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?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Membership of a recognised, relevant professional body in an appropriate discipline.
• Min. Bachelor’s degree in transport/urban planning or engineering, civil engineering, project management or a related field.
• Experienced Associate Director, preferably within a multi-disciplinary consultancy
• Strong understanding of the transportation sector, regulatory and policy frameworks, and socio-political drivers.
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated success in project management and technical excellence in transport planning.
• Flexibility to attend client meetings in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• Proven track record in developing and growing client relationships.
• Strong experience in project appraisal and evaluation would be advantageous.

At AECOM, we value everyone’s unique contributions and perspectives.

Additional Information

#transportplanning

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: J10159851

Business Line: Transportation

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Planning

Work Location Model: Hybrid