Technical Director - Water

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Hybrid work model

Job summary

AECOM’s Ireland water team seeks a Technical Director to lead delivery of water and wastewater schemes, driving strategic growth and technical excellence. You will mentor senior engineers, manage client relationships with Uisce Éireann, and steer multidisciplinary teams from feasibility to construction.

Join us to shape major infrastructure in Ireland with a role that blends leadership, business development, and high-quality design and safety oversight.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of operating within the island of Ireland and understanding the water industry and Uisce Éireann.
• Professional recognition as a Chartered Civil Engineer.
• Substantial experience in a senior leadership role within a consultancy or contracting environment.
• Demonstrated experience in business development and/or technical excellence.
• History of successful bidding and development of long-term, trusted client relationships.
• Strong business acumen, financial management capabilities, and exceptional communication skills.
• Solid track record of working on projects of varying size and complexity with direct client engagement.
• Experience with engineering design and safety practices, and procedures for health & safety, design, and QA.
• Supervising work to technical standards, coordinating across disciplines, and managing to programme and budget.

Responsibilities

• Client Relationship Management: act as trusted advisor to Uisce Éireann and foster long-term partnerships.
• Technical Oversight: lead multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs across stages.
• Strategic Growth & Business Development: drive opportunities and lead bids with proposals and briefs.
• Team Management: mentor regional staff, promote collaboration, and coordinate with other lines.

Skills

Leadership

Client relations

Business development

Financial acumen

Communication skills

Engineering design

Project oversight

Safety compliance

Education

Chartered Civil Engineer

Job 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.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Our fantastic water team in Ireland are looking for an agile and client-centric professional with water industry experience to join us in our Dublin office as a Technical Director. With experience leading delivery of water and/or wastewater engineering schemes, this role will be a cornerstone position within AECOM’s UK & Ireland Water business.

This position combines strategic leadership, technical oversight, and business development to drive growth, innovation, and excellence in water infrastructure services. The successful candidate will be joining a growing team of over 160 water staff on the island of Ireland that are actively involved in the delivery and services to a range of both local and national clients, with projects at all phases of delivery. You will be part of the supporting management team and play a pivotal role fostering client relationships, leading opportunities, mentoring high-performing teams, and ensuring commercial success.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Client Relationship Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to our key client Uisce Éireann, fostering long-term partnerships and strengthening relationships founded on delivery excellence. Proactively engage, identifying opportunities for cross-selling and expanding AECOM’s services.
• Technical Oversight: Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs, ensuring compliance with standards, safety, and quality. Providing high-level technical expertise and direction for complex projects throughout feasibility, design, planning, tender and construction stages. Champion innovation and digital solutions to deliver efficiency for our clients.
• Strategic Growth & Business Development: Drive business development through proactive engagement and secure new opportunities to continue our pipeline growth and expand AECOM’s footprint in the Ireland Water sector. Prepare detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals, with ability to lead bids.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage regional staff, including associates and senior engineers, to ensure high performance. Promote a collaborative and innovative team culture, encouraging continuous improvement and development. Establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines including Environment, Energy, Planning, Landscape.

Join our team.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion.

Let's not forget the perks!

You’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.

If you’re passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, we want to hear from you. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we’re working on and see firsthand the difference we’re making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Proven track record of operating within the island of Ireland and a strong understanding of the water industry and our key client, Uisce Éireann.
• Professional recognition as a Chartered Civil Engineer.
• Substantial experience in a senior leadership role within a consultancy or contracting environment.
• Demonstrated experience in business development and/or technical excellence.
• A history of successful bidding and development of long-term, trusted client relationships.
• Strong business acumen, financial management capabilities, and exceptional communication skills.
• A solid track record of working on projects of various size, scale and complexity, with experience in dealing directly with clients.
• Experience with engineering design and safety practices, and procedures for health & safety, design, and quality assurance.
• Supervising work, ensuring that it is carried out to an appropriate technical standard, coordinated across design disciplines and is managed to programme and budget.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities so, if you’re an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable adjustment to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. 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.