Associate Director - Active Travel, Bus User Priority, Highway Improvement and Infrastructure s[...] in Birmingham

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Company Description

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 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 our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here. Our thriving Streets team, part of AECOM's Transportation Business Line, has a vacancy for an Associate Director to take a leading role within the team in our Birmingham office. The streets team is growing to cater for an increased workload, particularly in Active Travel, Bus User Priority, Highway Improvement and Infrastructure schemes. It provides concept, preliminary and detailed designs, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-disciplinary transportation and urban realm projects and supports other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised traffic and highways interface. The successful candidate will be joining our dedicated team, who are recognised as market leaders in the transportation sector, and are actively involved in the delivery of small to large high profile and impactful projects for a range of both local and national clients.

Here’s what we’re looking for

As an Associate Director, you will have proven team leadership, business development, project management and project delivery experience. You will have appropriate qualifications and demonstrable experience in a technical lead role. The role would suit a self‑motivated and independent individual, a natural leader, looking to utilise the latest technologies advance their career in a dynamic team. Whilst AECOM offers the benefits of a flexible hybrid working model, it is anticipated that the successful candidate will work from the office on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in line with the current working pattern for the Streets team.

Key responsibilities

• Undertake client‑facing project duties, representing AECOM as the key point of contact and develop sound client relationships, being alert to commercial opportunities, identifying emerging opportunities and developing strategies to fully exploit them.
• Act as an AECOM accredited Project Manager, managing the financial performance of projects. (Comprehensive training on AECOM's project management system will be provided).
• Provide technical leadership on projects or packages of work for traffic engineering schemes including the preparation of detailed technical reports, technical specifications and cost estimates.
• Lead and manage packages of work/design elements undertaken by our overseas design centres.
• Lead on quality management and ensure compliance of designs with the requirements of the brief, all applicable standards, regulations and AECOM quality procedures.
• Undertake Health & Safety duties including ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for the project team and fulfilling all CDM responsibilities including safety in design.
• Contribute to work winning through bid management, tender production and preparation of proposals.
• Contribute proactively to resourcing, recruitment and management of the local and wider teams.
• Support senior management of the Streets team deputising for Regional Directors/Office leads as required.
• Establish strong working relationships with other internal teams across AECOM's business lines including Planning, Structures, Infrastructure, Water, Power, Landscape and our overseas design centres.
• Support and monitor team skills and ensure they are up to date with current best practice, techniques, and innovation.
• Support the technical and professional development of members of the team, sharing knowledge, managing their input into projects and mentoring them towards professional qualification.
• Undertake line manager responsibilities for junior staff, providing guidance, management and career planning and completing annual performance evaluations.

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. 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!

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• A successful track record in the project management and delivery of multi‑disciplinary transportation engineering schemes.
• Knowledge and experience of relevant design and safety standards (e.g. DMRB, TSRGD, MCHW, LTN 1/20, Manual for Streets, CDM Regulations).
• An ability to deal directly with clients and engage at a senior level within client organisations.
• A successful track record of delivery of bids and proposals.
• Experience of team management including technical development and mentoring of staff.
• Experience of successfully managing work delivered by overseas design centres.

Preferred Qualifications

• A relevant degree and Chartered status with a recognised professional institution or equivalent industry experience.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne.

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.