Senior Architectural Technologist

Company Description

At AECOM, we are 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.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We’re one global team driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Are you a technically strong Architectural professional with advanced REVIT expertise? Join AECOM’s Architecture team in Manchester and contribute to the delivery of complex, high-quality design projects across a range of sectors.

We are looking for an experienced Architectural Technician / Technical Architect with a strong background in technical detailing and digital delivery. REVIT will be your primary daily tool, and a REVIT assessment will form part of the application process.

You will play a key role in producing and coordinating detailed design information, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure accuracy, compliance and excellence in delivery.

• Daily production and coordination of models and drawings in REVIT
• Preparing, reviewing and approving technical drawings
• Liaising with design and drafting teams across disciplines
• Delivering design packages of moderate to high complexity (with appropriate supervision)
• Producing detailed drawings in line with project specifications and established standards
• Preparing specifications, reports and supporting data tables
• Undertaking material take-offs, measurements and area calculations directly from REVIT models
• Reviewing and interpreting vendor documentation
• Ensuring compliance with relevant codes, permits and discipline-specific standards
• Using CDE platforms for document control and coordination
• Marking up drawings using Adobe PDF and working confidently within Microsoft Office applications

• Significant experience in technical detailing within architecture
• Advanced REVIT capability (essential)
• AutoCAD knowledge (desirable)
• Strong understanding of construction documentation and design standards
• Confident interpreting technical specifications and instructions
• Experience working within Common Data Environments (CDEs)
• Detail‑oriented with strong coordination skills

You will need to be ARB or RIBA accredited.

Experience in nuclear and/or defence will be required.

You will also be required to obtain BPSS and SC clearance, if not already held previously.

• Fully Qualified Architect (ARB Registered)
• Proven related Architecture experience
• Recent experience of having worked on Security and Nuclear Power projects (SC clearance required)

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We provide a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address Reaso if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.