Principal Civil Engineer (Drainage) in Manchester

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.

AECOM's Manchester office is seeking a Principal Civil Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will lead the delivery of civil infrastructure projects across commercial and residential developments, providing project management expertise while supporting the continued growth of the business.

Our Business Unit is highly multidisciplinary, bringing together civil and highway engineers, structural, mechanical, and electrical/process engineers, architects, project managers, and surveyors. We work across a diverse range of sectors including industrial and logistics development, airports, infrastructure regeneration, and projects for Government Agencies and Local Authorities.

Here's what you'll do:

• Provide commercial and technical leadership to teams of engineers and technicians, programming workloads and delivering projects to time, budget, and quality.
• Lead and manage the design and delivery of highways, drainage, and associated infrastructure for complex, multidisciplinary developments.
• Undertake project management responsibilities across a portfolio of schemes.
• Support business development activities within the unit, helping to secure new work within the property and development sectors.
• 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.

Here's what we're looking for:

• Significant experience in UK development-led infrastructure engineering, typically gained within a private or consultancy environment.
• A degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered Civil Engineer status or approaching Chartership (MICE).
• Strong technical capability in the design of highways, access roads, and project infrastructure, including road geometry, earthworks, pavements, drainage, and underground services.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. 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. 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.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.