Principal Structural Engineer - Water

Primary Location: UK - St Albans, 10 Bricket Road

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.

Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water Team as a Principal Structural Engineer. You can be based in one of our UK offices whilst also taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model. We are delivering an exciting portfolio of high-value capital programmes and projects through long-term frameworks with major clients in the water sector. Our direct clients include most major water companies, and also a number of Tier 1 contractors working in the sector. Our projects cover new and upgraded clean and wastewater networks, and all scales of treatment works upgrades.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Technical Excellence: You will deploy technical excellence in the design of a wide range of heavy civil engineering structures, from deep below ground pumping stations to large above ground water‑retaining concrete structures, and complex piled foundations to steel‑framed buildings.
• Deliver: Using your experience, knowledge and judgement, you will develop structural solutions to interesting and often complex challenges. You will lead and oversee detailed design activities by others, as well as prepare detailed designs yourself.
• Expertise: You will challenge the norm, identifying and implementing innovative ideas, best practice and new ways of thinking and working to help deliver value for our clients.
• Lead: You will lead the structural design of projects as well as mentor and support the professional development of team members. Through your leadership you will foster positive client relationships.
• Communicate: You will be the interface with other project design disciplines and harness your excellent communication skills when dealing with clients and other project stakeholders.
• Documentation: You will be involved in the preparation and reviewing high‑quality drawings, calculations, specifications and reports to communicate solutions.
• Quality: Quality will be central to everything you do. You will review and sign‑off project deliverables with a focus on compliance and efficiency.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

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.

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!