Remote Associate Director - Highways and Infrastructure

Job Description

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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 in our Belfast office.

You will be joining our Ireland Highways team, of over 70 staff, who are recognised as market leaders in the areas of highways, public transport, and active travel and continue to deliver high profile and impactful projects across the island of Ireland. You will be part of a growing young team in Belfast and will fit into a positive team structure with strong engineering staff from apprentice to principal engineer and supported from above 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 on the island of Ireland. You will be someone interested in leading the delivery teams of our diverse range of projects including +150km of greenways in County Donegal, ambitious complex Northern Ireland roads projects such as the Newry Southern Relief Road, and major infrastructure projects across Ireland such as the Adare Bypass and Carlow Southern Relief Road.

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.

• 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
• A24 Ballynahinch Bypass
• Newry Southern Relief Road
• A6 Londonderry to Dungiven Phase 2
• York Street Interchange

• TII Standards Commission
  - Network Asset Management and Maintenance Framework
• DBFO1 Package 1 Northern Ireland
  - Technical Advisory Services

• 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.

• Large scale bus infrastructure design projects and bus infrastructure programmes for the National Transport Authority

• 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

• 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 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 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…