Associate Director Structural Engineering

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AECOM is recruiting an Associate  Director to join our Dublin office Structures Building Engineering Team.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer, with excellent business acumen and a proven track record in project delivery and team managment.

The Dublin Building Engineering Structures team focuses on projects not only in Ireland but also across the UK and Europe. We specialize in residential, educational, healthcare, Infrastructure, data centres, commercial, civic sectors for public and private clients.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a significant role in future construction projects but also team management and growth.

What you’ll do! 

Duties of the Associate Director role include:

• Effectively control the commercial, managerial, and technical aspects of projects and areas of the business for which you are responsible.
• Sourcing opportunities and preparing fee proposals for submission to client, including resources and programme.
• Developing relationships with new clients and enhancing business relationships with existing clients.
• Leading a team of engineers and technicians in building infrastructure schemes.
• Developing the skills of employees within the team, through mentoring and training; ensuring they have clear direction on how to progress their careers.
• Ensuring the AECOM principles on project delivery are conducted in line with company policy, ensuring quality on all aspect of project delivery.

Specific Requirements;

• Excellent understanding on the application of the current Eurocodes, Irish Building Regulations and BCAR requirements.
• Experience in the assessment of existing structures and their justification, as well as new build designs.
• The ability to identify, assess and mitigate risks, relating to both Health & Safety, design, construction and maintenance.
• The ability to effectively communicate and promote your message across the team, senior management and represent AECOM professionally to clients and external bodies.
• Ability to manage the delivery of work to appropriate technical standard , programme and budget constraints.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized 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. 

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Minimum Professional Qualifications:

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Membership of one of Engineers Ireland, Institution of Structural Engineers (MIStructE) or the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE).

Desirable Attributes:

• A solid track record of working on and successfully delivered large, diverse, complex projects, where you acted as project leader for the engineering discipline.
• Knowledge and experience of the Irish marketplace.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. 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!

About AECOM

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 our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

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 at 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.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. 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 [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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