Principal Structural Engineer, Water

Company Description

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 world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

Are you ready to join a team of talented structural engineers to help shape and lead the future of water infrastructure? Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water Team as a Principal Structural Engineer. You can be based in one of our UK or Ireland offices while also taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model. Our thriving UK & Ireland multidisciplinary Water Solutions business is looking for talented Principal Structural Engineers to join our growing team.

We are delivering an exciting portfolio of high‑value capital programmes and projects through long‑term frameworks with major clients in the water sector. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career as a technical leader, delivering solutions on a diverse range of projects that meet the technical challenges of today and tomorrow.

• Deploy technical excellence in the design of a wide range of heavy civil engineering structures, from deep below‑ground pumping stations to large above‑ground water‑retaining concrete structures, and complex piled foundations to steel‑framed buildings.
• Develop structural solutions to interesting and often complex challenges, leading and overseeing detailed design activities by others and preparing detailed designs yourself.
• Challenge the norm by identifying and implementing innovative ideas, best practice and new ways of thinking and working to help deliver value for our clients.
• Lead the structural design of projects and mentor and support the professional development of team members, fostering positive client relationships.
• Serve as the interface with other project design disciplines and harness excellent communication skills when dealing with clients and other project stakeholders.
• Prepare and review high‑quality drawings, calculations, specifications and reports to communicate solutions.
• Review and sign‑off project deliverables with a focus on compliance and efficiency, ensuring quality at all stages.

• A degree or equivalent qualification and experience in civil and structural engineering.
• Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional institution; for example, ICE, IStruct
  
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• Experience in developing robust and efficient structural solutions and managing technical delivery in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Experience in structural design using appropriate standards and specification.
• Strong collaboration and coordination skills between teams, clients and stakeholders.
• Passion for delivering technical solutions and leading technical teams.

At AECOM, you’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised 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.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at Reaso If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public‑ and private‑sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

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