Technical Director:Multi-Disciplinary Design

AECOM; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Global opportunities

Training and development

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an experienced Technical Director: Multi-Disciplinary Design to lead complex projects across civil, structural, MEP, architectural and environmental disciplines from concept through construction. The role covers Dublin, Belfast, Cork or Galway offices, with a strong emphasis on strategic leadership and client-facing delivery.

You will drive design integration, capture planning, and BIM/digital delivery innovations while managing budgets, schedules, and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary design teams on complex projects.
• Strong understanding of integrated project delivery and design management principles.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, and technical deliverables.
• Ability to lead geographically diverse teams in a collaborative environment.
• Knowledge of BIM processes and digital project delivery tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multi-discipline design teams on major projects.
• Manage the full design lifecycle, ensuring delivery to scope, programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Act as the primary design interface between clients, project managers, discipline leads, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Drive design integration across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, environmental, and specialist engineering disciplines.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards, codes, client specifications, and health and safety requirements.
• Lead design reviews, technical workshops, value engineering exercises, and risk management activities.
• Oversee the preparation and review of technical reports, drawings, specifications, and design documentation.
• Lead multi-disciplinary bid development, technical proposals, and client presentations.
• Mentor junior engineers and design professionals while promoting technical excellence and innovation.
• Collaborate with project leadership to identify opportunities for improved delivery efficiency and digital design integration.
• Support BIM and digital engineering initiatives across project teams, integrating AI to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce rework.
• Contribute to strategic planning and business growth within the design and engineering team.

Skills

Leadership

Multidisciplinary coordination

Design management

Stakeholder engagement

Digital delivery

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Architectural or related technical discipline degree

Tools

BIM

NEC / FIDIC contracts

Digital design tools

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 Technical Director:Multi-Disciplinary Design to join our team in one of our offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, or Galway.

What You'll Do

AECOM is seeking an experienced and collaborative Technical Director:Multi-Disciplinary Design to lead the delivery of complex projects across multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will hold a role of regional significance and provide client-facing leadership, design coordination, work-winning support, and project delivery oversight across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, architectural, and specialist disciplines.

This role requires strong leadership capability, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to manage integrated design solutions from concept through detailed design and construction support.

Lead strategic pursuits, representing AECOM's design business in the market, and collaborate with sector teams to convert opportunities into successful wins through targeted relationship-building and innovative solutions.

Drive capture planning and execution, aligning multi-discipline teams to develop compelling proposals that showcase our design excellence and leverage BIM and AI capabilities to deliver client value and secure profitable contracts.

The role requires a high degree of flexibility and creativity, excellent presentation skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with clients and consultants. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading multi-discipline teams to plan and deliver integrated design solutions, aligning scope, schedule, and budget while maintaining technical excellence and safe service delivery within our client-focused and highly motivated professional team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multi-discipline design teams on major projects.
• Manage the full design lifecycle, ensuring delivery to scope, programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Act as the primary design interface between clients, project managers, discipline leads, contractors, and external stakeholders.
• Drive design integration across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, environmental, and specialist engineering disciplines.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards, codes, client specifications, and health and safety requirements.
• Lead design reviews, technical workshops, value engineering exercises, and risk management activities.
• Oversee the preparation and review of technical reports, drawings, specifications, and design documentation.
• Lead multi-disciplinary bid development, technical proposals, and client presentations.
• Mentor junior engineers and design professionals while promoting technical excellence and innovation.
• Collaborate with project leadership to identify opportunities for improved delivery efficiency and digital design integration.
• Support BIM and digital engineering initiatives across project teams, integrating AI to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce rework.
• Contribute to strategic planning and business growth within the design and engineering team.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

We are looking for a driven and experienced professional with a strong background in the builtsectors.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary design teams on complex projects.
• Strong understanding of integrated project delivery and design management principles.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, and technical deliverables.
• Ability to lead geographically diverse teams in a collaborative environment.
• Knowledge of BIM processes and digital project delivery tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer (CEng), Professional Engineer (PE), or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Experience working in international consultancy environments.
• Familiarity with NEC, FIDIC, or other industry-standard contracts.
• Experience in Design & Build or EPC project environments.
• Strong commercial awareness and client relationship management capability.

Skills & Competencies

• Leadership and team management
• Multidisciplinary coordination
• Technical problem solving
• Design management and integration
• Risk and quality management
• Client engagement and communication
• Strategic thinking and innovation
• Programme and resource management
• Proven skills in developing our talented team

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 we 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 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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