Technical Director - Dams & Reservoirs in Cardiff

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and help shape the future of water? Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water business as a Technical Director in our Dams & Reservoirs Team. In this role, you will help support the delivery of an exceptional portfolio of dams, reservoirs, flooding and water infrastructure projects through our long-term partnerships with key clients. Projects will include work on dams and reservoirs, water supply systems and flood risk management schemes. We offer a diverse range of experience for candidates with a wide spectrum of interests and career goals. This position provides an excellent opportunity to join a talented and diverse team committed to innovation, technical excellence and efficient delivery.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead: Drive the technical delivery of a range of water and infrastructure projects, managing multidisciplinary technical teams to deliver value-added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
• Manage: Oversee key packages of work from conception through to handover, interfacing with AECOM teams, clients and suppliers to create seamless technical solutions.
• Collaborate: Work closely with clients, stakeholders and AECOM colleagues to secure buy-in to project solutions, while also contributing to AECOM’s wider technical capability and innovative approach.
• Develop: Perform line management duties, support the development of team members, manage their input to projects and provide mentoring.

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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what is possible? Here’s what we are looking for:

• Significant experience in a similar civil engineering, water infrastructure or project management role.
• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering discipline, such as civil, mechanical or electrical engineering, and/or equivalent industry experience.
• Chartered or incorporated status with a relevant professional institution, such as ICE, CIWEM or similar, or working towards this.
• Clear ambition to work towards Supervising Engineer or All Reservoirs Panel Engineer status in the UK.
• Proven experience in delivering designs for water infrastructure projects.
• Experience in feasibility studies, options appraisal, and concept, outline and detailed design for water company clients.
• Experience in managing teams and supporting the technical and financial delivery of projects with multidisciplinary teams.

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 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!

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. 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.

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.

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.