Associate Director - Structural Engineering

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AECOM is currently recruiting for an Associate Director to join our UK & Ireland Building Engineering team. This technical practice comprises over 1,000 engineering professionals across 28 locations drawn from a variety of disciplines in the built environment. Within the structural engineering practice there are over 170 engineers across the UK. This particular opportunity has arisen in our South West & Wales (SW&W) business unit which has teams in Basingstoke, Bristol and Plymouth and a focus on projects within Defence, Aviation and Education.

The team undertakes a range of structural engineering projects requiring innovative and practical solutions to complex problems. The right candidate will need to demonstrate a desire to be challenged, take on a leadership role and undertake technical delivery of projects. In return we can offer a challenging and rewarding role, career development, a positive working environment and a competitive reward package.

This opportunity would suit an individual who has broad experience, but who has knowledge of the aviation sector and is looking to move into a management role within a team. As an Associate Director you will have the opportunity to contribute to leading and shaping the team. The role will have significant elements of representing the technical team in a client-facing environment.

You will therefore need to be adept at engaging with clients and other professions and using your engineering expertise to make a significant contribution to emerging designs. We would expect you to have experience in the delivery of projects throughout the project lifecycle and an ability to run projects, manage resources and commercial aspects of projects. We would look to you to hold existing client knowledge and have emerging as well as selected established relationships with key clients with the hope of exploiting and growing these relationships to secure opportunities for AECOM.

Some of our current and recent projects include:

• Heathrow T2 Baggage Programme: A £635M scheme to replace the time‑expired outgoing T2 baggage system.
• HMNB Devonport:
  Supporting the development of infrastructure at HMNB Devonport, including design of seismically qualified upgrade works to existing dry docks required to support deep maintenance of nuclear‑powered submarines.
• Livingstone Academy, Bournemouth:
  Civil, structural and fire engineering services for the design of a £27M academy school in Bournemouth, including refurbishment and conversion of existing Grade II listed buildings and construction of a new 5-storey teaching block.

This opportunity is to join the SW&W structural engineering team which comprises teams located in Basingstoke, Bristol and Plymouth. You would be based in our Basingstoke office and line management would be provided from within the Basingstoke team. AECOM has an established flexible working policy, ‘Freedom to Grow’. This supports flexible and remote working which works for the business, the client and the individual.

The successful candidate could be located in any part of the UK, but a willingness to regularly travel to Basingstoke and Heathrow (or other UK offices) to support the team and project meetings is expected.

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