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Work with Us. Change the World.

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.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. 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 nearly 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 our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

About our Team 

Committed to addressing the complete spectrum of energy challenges, we offer expertise in the following sectors: renewable energy (wind and solar), Battery Energy Storage Systems, hydropower, bioenergy (including energy from waste), energy efficiency and carbon management, thermal power generation, nuclear power, transmission and distribution- large programmes like GGP.

The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Engineering team provides a range of services from the initial concept through Power Systems Analysis, Cabling, Substations, Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, System Balancing and Compensation, Protection Systems, SCADA, Communications, Converter Station Design, HVDC Systems and Interconnectors including overseas links.

AECOM and its joint venture partner have been appointed as design and consenting service partners for the UK National Grid’s Great Grid Partnership. Part of a £9bn Enterprise partnership that will connect clean energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales by 2030. The joint venture’s scope of work will include delivering the consents for individual schemes within the program. These consents will be through Development Consent Orders (DCOs), which entail technical and environmental design and preparation, as well as stakeholder engagement on the plans.

Pushing the limits of what is possible.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Start Here. Grow Here.

In this leadership role, you will be a key senior member of our Transmission & Distribution team dedicated to leading and engaging with our clients to deliver technically challenging multi-disciplinary projects.

This is a new specialist technical director level role in combination with integrated project management and delivery to support the growth of our UK & Ireland T&D practice.

What will a day in this role look like?

  • You will lead large multi-disciplinary projects involving engineers from various disciplines such as substation, cables, protection & control, civils, and overhead line while undertaking design management roles to ensure integrated design through effective communication and coordination.
  • You will have the opportunity to be involved in large programmes of work like GGP projects
  • Checking and review engineering deliverables such as complex designs, reports, proposals, presentations, and drawing packages
  • Reviewing and providing input into bids and pursuits; actively participating in business and strategic planning activities to identify opportunities to continue the growth of the business in the short, medium and longer-term
  • Provide engineering expertise from the concept to detailed design of transmission & distribution projects, including substations, power generating stations, data centres, BESS and renewables
  • Leading the delivery of projects and the development of leading-edge technical skills and their practical application, in ways that add value to AECOM and our clients
  • Mentoring team members in their development, facilitating opportunities that build competency, and assisting with professional accreditation where appropriate
  • You will have the opportunity to collaborate with our Global Enterprise Capabilities teams to deliver projects in the region
  • Take ownership of detailed engineering documentation and oversee project execution, providing technical guidance to the team.
  • Ensure design submissions comply with codes, standards, and quality requirements
  • Perform internal reviews and quality checks of engineering drawings and calculations
  • Manage projects or project components, including resource allocation, subcontractor coordination, design integrity, and client feedback
  • Identify opportunities for design optimization and cost efficiencies
  • Pursue new opportunities, defining scope, schedule, budget, and exclusions

Enjoy the Perks.

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.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

Qualifications

What are we looking for from you?

  • Degree qualified in electrical or power systems engineering (or equivalent)
  • Significant Transmission & Distribution design experience, including multi-disciplinary scope
  • Demonstrated experience in managing complex, multi-discipline projects and meeting delivery requirements for UK & Ireland clients
  • Working experience with the National Grid projects is advantageous
  • Proven client relationship management and business development skills
  • Chartership & Lead CDAE/CDAE certifications are advantageous
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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 [email protected]. 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!

Additional Information

Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!

For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn: Francesca Siddle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

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