Associate Water Design Lead

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Ready to shape the future of water infrastructure?

Join our growing Water Team as an Associate Water Design Lead!

At AECOM, we’re at the forefront of delivering exceptional water programmes and projects through long-term partnerships with leading clients, including Wessex Water, Thames Water, Welsh Water, Southern Water, Severn Trent Water South West Water, and international contractors.

In this role, you’ll work on high-impact projects ranging from potable water and sewage networks to treatment works of all scales, covering all stages of design and delivery, from feasibility to construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management.

Examples of our major on-going projects include working with our partners to deliver design elements of Alderney and Knapp Mill water treatment plants for South West Water, Avonmouth water recycling centre for Wessex Water, the Wanlip sewage treatment plant for Severn Trent Water, and a large programme of AMP8 treatment works upgrades for Southern Water, and other water companies.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take the next step in your career in technical project leadership, helping to deliver creative, sustainable solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead
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  Drive technical delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure / treatment projects, managing multi-disciplinary technical teams to deliver value added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
• Manage
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  Oversee key packages of work from conception to handover, interfacing with AECOM teams, clients and suppliers to create a seamless technical solution.
• Collaborate
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  Work closely with clients and AECOM partners to ensure stakeholder buy in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM’s wider technical capability and innovative approach.
• Develop
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  Perform line manager dutiesand support the development of junior team members, managing their input to projects and mentoring them.

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.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject (e.g. civil, electrical,…