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Technical Director - Highways and Infrastructure

Job in Belfast, County Antrim, BT1, Northern Ireland, UK
Listing for: AECOM
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-15
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
  • Transportation
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 worlds most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be h 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. Our Highways & Infrastructure team, within our Transportation business line, have a vacancy for an Regional Director / Technical Director with experience in leading the delivery of transportation engineering schemes in our Belfast OR Dublin office. You will be joining our team who are recognised as market leaders in the delivery of major road infrastructure, public transport, rail, greenways and active travel, and that has a track record of delivering high profile and impactful projects across the country.

The successful candidate will be joining a growing team of over 70 Highways staff in 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 over the next few years. You will be part of the supporting management team for the wider Ireland transportation team of over 150 staff.

You will have a proven team leadership, business development, project delivery and business management experience within a commercial environment. The role would suit a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career in a dynamic team. In addition to delivering work within the local office the role will involve working with other AECOM teams in the UK and Ireland. We are therefore seeking candidates who are able to work flexibly across other AECOM offices as projects dictate to support the wider business.

Current & Upcoming Projects:
RoI Major Transport Projects N4 Mullingar to Longford M21 Adare Bypass Carlow Southern Relief Road & Multi Modal Transport Corridor N3 M50 to Clonee & the N3 Bus Priority and Active Travel Scheme NI Major Transport Projects A24 Ballynahi n ch Bypass Newry Southern Relief Road Asset Management and Renewals TII Standards Commission
- Network Asset Management and Maintenance Framework DBFO1 Package 1 Northern Ireland
- Technical Advisory Services Greenways and Active Travel Extensive greenway programme for TII and Local Authorities across the country, including Lough Key Greenway in Roscommon, three major greenways in West Cork, the Galway to Oughterard Greenway, and five major greenways in Donegal, (300km) Large scale complex urban scheme and public realm schemes for Local Authorities across the country. Public Transport Large scale bus infrastructure design projects and bus infrastructure programmes for the National Transport Authority Energy Transition Major HV Cabling and Sub Station projects for Eirgid and ESB, including Rinawade (Liffey Park) GIS, 110kV GIS Substation Kilcarbery, Co.

Dublin, and 110kV AIS Substation Clonfad, Co. Meath, and Tuam MV off load  38kV Onshore Cable Installation (Cloon, Galway ) Civils input and associated co-ordination for multiple solar farms and windfarms and their associated grid connections, for example the Wexford Hub Solar Farm (33kV and 110KV Cable Installation) Support and development of CoP for various cabling civils specifications for Eirgrid Heres what youll do:
Deliver:
The Highways team are responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of projects aimed at improving our streets and places for local authority clients across Ireland. We provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation projects. In addition, we support other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised transportation interface.

Oversee:
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