Associate Director - Highways & Traffic Engineering

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.

Our Streets Team has a vacancy in our Glasgow office for a Principal Engineer with relevant experience in leading the delivery of traffic and highway engineering projects and in work‑winning activities. The successful candidate will share our ethos of developing impactful design solutions and delivering high levels of service to assist with the growth of our Scotland Streets business by enhancing existing and developing new client relationships.

The role suits a self‑motivated individual looking to advance their career. In addition to delivering work within the local office, the role will involve working closely with other AECOM teams across the wider UK & Ireland business, with opportunities for international work.

• Client relationship building – develop sound client relationships, identify commercial and emerging opportunities, and develop strategies to exploit them.
• Work winning – prepare detailed proposals, client briefs, and fee proposals, and contribute to or lead bids. Work with colleagues to deliver marketing and business development objectives locally and nationally.
• Project leadership – act as a Project Director and Project Manager after accreditation on AECOM’s project management system, monitoring financial performance and key performance indicators.
• Technical leadership – ensure technical content and quality of output align with the project brief.
• Team management – be a proactive line manager, supporting career progression of line reports, training, and ensuring the team stays current with best practice and innovation.
• Team leadership – support the Streets Scotland senior management team, deputise for the Streets office manager as required, and actively support recruitment to grow the team.
• Internal relationship building – establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines.

You’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, including career development opportunities, a flexible hybrid working model, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

• Relevant degree, preferably chartered in a recognised engineering institution.
• A successful track record in managing and delivering a portfolio of traffic engineering projects, particularly sustainable infrastructure and road/traffic projects.
• A proven ability to deliver bids and proposals and to manage and grow a team, with strong leadership skills and the ability to develop a highly motivated project delivery team.

Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, and You Tube to explore employee stories and latest projects. For further information, contact the recruiter on Linked In – Siobhan Osborne.

We celebrate diversity, including neuro‑diversity, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation, please email Reaso AECOM is a Disability Confident Employer.

• Location: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Business Line: Transportation
• Business Group: DCS
• Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
• Career Area: Engineering
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment Type: Full‑time
• Job Function: Engineering and Information Technology
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