Principal Transportation Planner

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Volunteer days

Job summary

AECOM expands its Transport Planning Team in Dublin and seeks a Principal Consultant to lead complex transport planning projects for public sector clients. You will drive project delivery, manage budgets, and allocate resources while guiding a diverse team of experts across the UK & Ireland.

You will foster client relationships, advance technical excellence, and contribute to strategic growth within a hybrid working environment that balances office and client-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Membership of a recognised, relevant professional body.
• Bachelor’s degree in transport/urban planning or engineering, civil engineering, project management or related field (see Education).
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record in delivering transport planning projects for public sector clients.
• Strong understanding of the transportation sector regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in project management and client development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of transport planning projects for public sector clients.
• Oversee programme, budget and resource management across projects.
• Collaborate with project managers and national Technical Experts to allocate resources effectively.
• Develop and grow client relationships and ensure technical excellence across the team.

Skills

Project leadership

Client relationship management

Transport planning

Strategic thinking

Public sector experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in transport/urban planning or engineering, civil engineering, project management or related field

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.

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 Transport Planning Team as Principal Consultant.

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 technical focus, quality, programme, budget and resource management.

Collaboration: Support to the wider Consultancy 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.

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

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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Membership of a recognised, relevant professional body.
• Min. Bachelor's degree in transport/urban planning or engineering, civil engineering, project management or a related field.
• Experienced professional, either currently operating at Senior Consultant and ready to take the next step or already operating at Principal level, preferably within a multi-disciplinary consultancy
• Strong understanding of the transportation sector, regulatory and policy frameworks, and socio-political drivers.
• Demonstrated success in project management and technical excellence in transport planning.
• 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

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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.

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