Principal Engineer/ Associate Director of Highways & Traffic in Newcastle upon Tyne

Our Streets Team have a vacancy in our central Newcastle office for a Principal Engineer / Associate Director of Traffic & Highways with relevant experience in leading the delivery of a broad range of traffic and highway engineering projects and being responsible for 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 Newcastle and Northern Streets business by enhancing existing and developing new client relationships.

The Streets team provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation and urban realm projects. You will be joining a strong team who are recognised as market leaders in the transportation sector including in active travel, public transport, bus priority and general traffic engineering. More than that, we are an approachable, supporting and encouraging team who strive to work collaboratively with colleagues, clients and stakeholders. The role would suit 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 northern region and across the wider UK & Ireland business, with opportunity for international working.

What we’re looking for:

• You will have a relevant degree and will have or be working towards Chartered status along with membership of a professional institution.
• A successful track record in the management and delivery of a portfolio of traffic engineering projects - particularly sustainable infrastructure projects and roads/traffic engineering projects - ensuring technical content and quality of output produced is in line with the project brief.
• A successful track record of client relationship building, developing sound client relationships, being alert to commercial opportunities, identifying emerging opportunities and developing strategies to fully exploit them.
• Demonstrative evidence of taking ownership in preparing detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to or lead bids.
• You will also work with colleagues to deliver marketing and business development objectives in both the local region and nationally.
• A proven ability to manage a team, with strong leadership skills and the ability to develop and maintain a highly motivated project delivery team. This includes being a pro‑active Line Manager, managing career progression of line reports, and supporting and monitoring team skills to ensure they are up to date with current best practice, techniques, and innovation.
• An ability to establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM’s business lines.
• An individual who consistently displays AECOM’s values and behaviours, is someone people want to work with, and thrives on the challenge of increased responsibility.
• You will have an ability to demonstrate a high level of technical experience and expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• Cycling and walking design
• Bus priority and BRT
• Road safety audits
• Preliminary and detailed design of roads / junctions including some of the following areas: 3D alignment design, drainage, pavement, VRS, signs and markings, lighting, traffic signals
• Site supervision of traffic / highway schemes
• Traffic modelling software including LinSig, TRANSYT, Junctions 10/11

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com.

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in‑person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.