Associate Director - Highways
Listed on 2026-07-17
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Engineering
Operations Management -
Management
Project & Program Management, Operations Management
Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Our Highways team, within our Transportation business line, has a vacancy for an Associate Director with experience in managing the delivery of transportation engineering schemes across our regional based offices of Manchester, Newcastle, Chesterfield and St Albans
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You will be joining our Highways team, of over 100 staff, who are recognised as market leaders in the areas of significant and major highways and continue to deliver high profile and impactful projects across the UK and globally. You will be part of established teams with a positive team structure with strong engineering staff across the grades from apprentice to principal engineer, and supported by a locally based senior management team.
The successful candidate will be joining a growing team that works with a range of both local and national clients. You will be someone interested in leading the delivery teams of our diverse range of projects.
You will have a proven experience in civil engineering, infrastructure, or transportation projects, and be 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.
Further, the role offers opportunities to work in AECOM’s wider UK European, Middle East, and India regions.
Current & Upcoming Projects:- A229 Blue Bell Hill
- M54-M6 Link Road
- M62 Link Roads
- A19 North of Newcastle
- Al Ula
- Middle East - National Grid – The Great Grid Upgrade, Wanless Beck
- Supporting work for Heathrow, Gatwick Airports, East West Rail and Northern Powerhouse
- Site opportunities
- Lune Gorge, M60 J18
Here’s what you’ll do:
Anticipate: You will understand our project delivery requirements and operational requirements and anticipate and solve routine and usual problems for both our teams and our clients.
Deliver: The Highways team are responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of projects aimed at improving our transport network for clients. We provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation and urban realm projects. In addition, we support other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised transportation interface.
Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery. Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
Provide Expertise: Offer technical 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, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise. Provide Health, Safety and Wellness leadership to the district team consistent with AECOM’s safety policies and procedures to deliver a safe and healthy working environment for the project team members. Oversee the preparation of feasibility, preliminary and detailed designs for all types of transportation projects.
Collaborate: Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promote our strong health and safety culture through management of safety on projects and completing reviews of safety practices on projects to drive continuous improvement.
- Following successful accreditation on the AECOM project management system act as a Project Manager including monitoring financial performance. Comprehensive training on AECOM’s project management system will be provided.
- Ensure Technical content and quality of output produced is in line with the project brief…
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