Senior Engineer : Aviation Engineering in Reading

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and shape the future of airports? Our Aviation Infrastructure team is based in AECOM offices and are passionate about creating innovative, resilient, and sustainable solutions for airports of all sizes, including major commercial hubs and greenfield airports to general aviation airfields and military installations. Each team member has a development plan to provide a clear pathway to personal development and career progression. The team provides technical solutions throughout the project lifecycle from masterplanning, feasibility, preliminary and detailed stage designs and construction and handover. Our clients are varied from both the private and public sector and include airport investors, airport operators and major contractors.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Design: contribute to airport engineering projects including runways, taxiways, aprons, vehicle service roads, aeronautical groundlighting and signage installation, navigational aids, drainage improvements, utility relocation and protection, and pavement rehabilitation on a wide variety of civil and military multi-disciplinary aviation projects.
• Produce: 3D models, 2D drawings and data rich digital deliverables applying automation and scripting (Dynamo, Python and Civil 3D APIs) to streamline production.
• Manage: models and documentation in ProjectWise and Autodesk Construction Cloud, implementing and managing BIM workflows in compliance with ISO 19650 and project BEPs.
• Organise: take ownership and demonstrate responsibility for delivery of assigned tasks in alignment with project programme and budgets.
• Collaborate: with multi-disciplinary design teams consisting of airport planners, architects, engineers and digital leads across the UK and Europe. Attend client meetings and contribute to discussions with project stakeholders around designs that you have developed.
• Assure: perform model validation, coordination and clash detection using Navisworks Manager. Demonstrate a commitment to AECOM’s Quality Assurance processes and procedures.
• Improve: contribute to the continuous improvement of AECOM’s digital standards, libraries and templates.

If you’re passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don’t just design airports, we connect cities, regions and counties to drive economic growth, and build legacies for future generations. Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project. We offer 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.

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

• Advanced Autodesk Civil 3D capability (corridors, surfaces, pipe networks, grading, data shortcuts) and experience working on multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of BIM processes beyond Level 2 and ISO 19650 information management.
• Proficiency with ProjectWise, BIM 360 / ACC, and Navisworks Manage.
• Experience using Dynamo, Python, or Civil 3D automation tools.
• Experience in design, planning and construction support of civil engineering projects; experience within the airport environment is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of DMRB or highway civil engineering design.
• Knowledge of Civil Aviation standards and recommended practices (ICAO, EASA, CAA, FAA, MAA).

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!

Additional Information We are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process. All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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. Our teams deliver sustainable legacies with a focus on equity, diversity and inclusion, and ESG priorities. We are a Fortune 500 firm with significant global reach.

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, your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. Join us to foster a safe and respectful workplace where you can bring your whole self to work. We offer a wide range of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable accommodations inquiries: ReasonableAccommodationsUKI at aecom dot com.