Principal Civil Engineer

• Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
• Business Line: B&P
  - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model:
  Hybrid
• Operating Group:
  International
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  UK
  - Chesterfield

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Start here. Grow here.

AECOM’s Civils Team is seeking a Principal Civil Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead the delivery of civil infrastructure projects across commercial and residential developments, providing project management expertise while supporting the continued growth of the business.

Our Business Unit is highly multidisciplinary, bringing together civil and highway engineers, structural, mechanical, and electrical/process engineers, architects, project managers, and surveyors. We work across a diverse range of sectors including industrial and logistics development, airports, infrastructure regeneration, and projects for Government Agencies and Local Authorities.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide commercial and technical leadership to teams of engineers and technicians, programming workloads and delivering projects to time, budget, and quality.
• Lead and manage the design and delivery of highways, drainage, and associated infrastructure for complex, multidisciplinary developments.
• Undertake project management responsibilities across a portfolio of schemes.
• Support business development activities within the unit, helping to secure new work within the property and development sectors.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks '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 career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Significant experience in UK development-led infrastructure engineering, typically gained within a private or consultancy environment.
• A degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered Civil Engineer status or approaching Chartership (MICE).
• Strong technical capability in the design of highways, access roads, and project infrastructure, including road geometry, earthworks, pavements, drainage, and underground services.

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