At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead digital optimisation projects and support innovative water solutions.
- Company: Join AECOM, a global leader in infrastructure consulting.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, career development, and a supportive environment.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with opportunities for personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on sustainable water solutions while growing your career.
- Qualifications: Postgraduate qualification in Civil/Structural Engineering and software proficiency required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
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. AECOM is seeking a Digital Optimisation Lead UK&I for our Water End Market work, supporting the growth of our digital service. The Digital Optimisation Lead will report to the Water Digital Lead for Europe & India. Guided by client understanding, our digital water team harness our domain, delivery and digital expertise to advise, advance and implement sustainable solutions for tomorrow’s success! Our digital capabilities are based around 3 pillars:
- Digital Optimisation: Harnessing the power of digital technology and our domain expertise to optimise the delivery of our design deliverables.
- Digital Advisory: Guiding clients on digital investments, technology selection and gaining organisational commitment.
- Digital Implementation: Applying and embedding best fit digital technologies for asset optimisation and long-term organisational benefits.
As a Digital Optimisation Lead you will take a lead role in guiding our internal delivery teams to transform and optimise our engineering deliverables and implementation of digital adoption technology and product development. The main objective, with support from regional digital optimisation leaders, will be to provide comprehensive end-to-end project team support, facilitating the integration of digital solutions into our business operations. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with our Client Account Managers and delivery teams. As a key player in executing our digital strategy for optimisation, you will support digital teams, facilitate cross market collaboration and be a champion for adoption.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Digital adoption across region: identify areas where upskilling and support in project delivery is required to successfully deliver digital methods of working.
- Collaborate Globally: Build trusted relationships with our global digital water optimisation leader and our Enterprise Capabilities team. Ensuring global initiatives are cascaded across the team and meet the regions requirements.
- Project Support: Act as digital lead across multiple projects or framework.
- Resource Management: Responsible for ensuring suitable resources are identified and allocated to projects.
- Software Champion: Point of contact within region for technical software queries.
- Internal stakeholder Presentations: Present at regional water townhalls, updates and successes.
- Digital Strategy: Work with Water Digital Lead to plan and develop digital strategies and successfully deliver owned elements of plan.
- Regional Optimisation Leaders: Manage and lead team of regional optimisation leads, ensuring our project delivery teams have the support to deliver projects through latest digital solutions.
- AECOM Market profile: Work with the water digital leadership team to enhance AECOMs market profile as a leading provider of digital solutions in the Water end market through thought leadership pieces, conference presentation, professional meetings etc.
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.
Come & Grow With Us. Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.
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.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Certified Postgraduate or Equivalent Qualification: In Civil/Structural Engineering.
- Project Information Delivery: Experience in delivering project information in accordance with BIM standards.
- Software Proficiency: Proficient in using Revit and/or Civil 3D, with experience in validating and coordinating models in Navisworks or similar software.
- Design Automations: Experience of working with teams to identify automation opportunities and develop Minimum Viable Products (MVP) which have scaling potential.
- Stakeholder engagement: Experience of influencing non-technical executive stakeholders from around the business.
- Mentoring and coaching: Experience in mentoring and coaching technical and non-technical 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.
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
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