Principal Engineer - Transportation

AECOM • Full-time • Birmingham, United Kingdom • 1w ago

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Job Description

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Our Streets team, within our Transportation business line, has a vacancy for a Principal Engineer based in our Birmingham Office.

The streets team is growing to cater for an increased workload, particularly Active Travel and Bus Priority schemes. It provides concept, preliminary and detailed designs on a wide range of projects for local authorities and contractors and supports other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised traffic and highways interface.

The successful candidate will be joining a dedicated team that is actively involved in the delivery of high-profile projects and services to a range of both local and national clients.

As a Principal Engineer, you will provide project management and technical leadership on projects. In doing so you will support our contract commitments whilst ensuring technical excellence and co-ordination between disciplines. You will have the opportunity to undertake line management duties and to mentor and direct junior members of the team and support them in their professional development.

You will have appropriate qualifications and relevant project delivery experience. The role would suit a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career in a dynamic team.

Current & Upcoming Projects:

Various projects with a range of local authority clients across the region including:

West Midlands Combined Authority / Transport for West Midlands
City of Wolverhampton Council
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Herefordshire Council

Here’s what you’ll do:

Deliver: Provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-disciplinary transportation and urban realm projects. Deliver work from the Birmingham office in conjunction with other teams across the UK and Ireland and our Global delivery centres.
Oversee: Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems, including exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
Provide Expertise: Offer 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, overcome problems in collaboration with our Clients. Ensure our schemes are delivered to the highest quality in line with AECOM’s quality procedures and Project Delivery System.
Collaborate: Support a team of multi-disciplinary consultants to deliver integrated designs and build effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership on projects or packages of work for traffic engineering schemes.
Prepare detailed technical reports, technical specifications and cost estimates.
Act as an AECOM accredited Project Manager, managing the financial performance of projects. (Comprehensive training on AECOM’s project management system will be provided).
Lead on quality management and ensure compliance of designs with the requirements of the brief, all applicable standards, regulations and AECOM quality procedures.
Prepare detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to or lead bids.
Undertake Health & Safety duties including ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for the project team and fulfilling all CDM responsibilities including safety in design
Undertake client-facing project duties, representing AECOM as the key point of contact.
Undertake line manager responsibilities for junior staff, providing guidance, management and career planning and completing annual performance evaluations.
Support the technical and professional development of members of the team, sharing knowledge, managing their input into projects and mentoring them towards professional qualification.

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 our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle , career development opportunities, 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:

A relevant degree and have, or be working towards, Chartered status with a recognised Professional Institution
A successful track record in the project management and delivery of traffic engineering schemes.
Knowledge and experience of relevant design and safety standards (e.g. DMRB, TSRGD, MCHW, LTN 1/20, Manual for Streets, CDM Regulations).
Excellent technical and communication skills.
An ability to deal directly with clients.
Experience of team management including technical development and mentoring of staff

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 [email protected]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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 [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.