Remote Water Design Manager in Guildford

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.

Ready to lead a multidisciplinary design team and shape the future of water infrastructure? Join our dynamic Water Solutions team as a Design Manager, based in our rapidly growing England & Wales offices with the benefit of our flexible hybrid working model.

In this role, you'll work on high-impact projects ranging from potable water and sewage networks to treatment works of all scales, covering all stages of design and delivery, from feasibility to construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management. Examples of our major ongoing projects include working with our partners to deliver design elements of Alderney and Knapp Mill water treatment plants for South West Water, Avonmouth water recycling centre for Wessex Water, the Wanlip sewage treatment plant for Severn Trent Water, and a large programme of AMP8 treatment works upgrades for Southern Water, and other water companies.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take the next step in your career in technical project leadership, helping to deliver creative, sustainable solutions that address today's challenges and anticipate tomorrow's needs.

Here's what you'll do:

• Lead: Drive technical delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure / treatment projects, managing multi-disciplinary technical teams to deliver value added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
• Manage: Oversee key packages of work from conception to handover, interfacing with AECOM teams, clients and suppliers to create a seamless technical solution.
• Collaborate: Work closely with clients and AECOM partners to ensure stakeholder buy in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM's wider technical capability and innovative approach.
• Develop: Perform line manager duties and support the development of junior team members, managing their input to projects and mentoring them.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just deliver infrastructure solutions, but also safeguard human health and the environment.

Here's what we're looking for:

• Experience in managing the technical delivery of water and wastewater engineering projects with multi-disciplinary knowledge, ideally including treatment schemes and/or pipeline design. You will also have experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Relevant experience in a similar role for a water company, consultancy or contractor.
• Hands on experience, designing complex wastewater treatment solutions.
• A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical) and/or equivalent experience.
• Chartered or Incorporated with a relevant institution e.g. ICE, CIWEM or working towards it.
• Experience of undertaking feasibility studies, options appraisal and concept design, and/or outline and detailed design for water company clients and design and build contractors.

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 [email protected].

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. 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 [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.