**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** This is a great opportunity for a highly experienced structural engineer with a proven track record in project delivery, team development, work winning and client management. The post will be based in London Aldgate, where we have the principal AECOM campus, delivering work at a local, national and global level. This is an exciting time for AECOM as we continue to build our global business. We are experiencing steady growth despite recent challenging economic conditions globally, with an interesting and expanding pipeline of projects across London and the UK. We are a significant presence in the London Design and Construction industry. As an Associate Director you will have the opportunity to contribute to leading and shaping the structural engineering team. You will also be a key member of the Buildings + Places team with an opportunity to grow into a role to help drive the growth of the business across the South East and London Region. A significant part of your role will be client facing, alongside managing and running projects. You would also be expected to contribute to the identification of new project leads, securing new and repeat business. You will therefore need to be adept at engaging with clients and other professionals at the inception stage of projects and use your engineering expertise to make a significant contribution to emerging design concepts. We would expect you to hold existing experience in delivery of projects from inception through to completion and an ability to run and manage resources in the delivery of these projects. Ideally you would hold existing client knowledge and have emerging as well as selected established relationships with the hope of utilising and growing these relationships to secure opportunities for AECOM. AECOM’s workload has remained robust throughout recent world events. The immediate work for any successful applicant would focus on working on heritage, refurbishment, and fit out projects. **Specific Requirements** + Comprehensive knowledge of design in Eurocodes. + Comprehensive working knowledge of historic design codes + Working knowledge of Structural Analysis Software, SCIA, TEKLA or similar software. + A knowledge of historic construction techniques and materials + Experience in the assessment of existing structures and their justification, as well as new build designs and the structural interactions between both. + Some site experience, inspecting construction works and surveys of existing buildings. + The ability to obtain DIO/MoD security clearance **Minimum Requirements** + Excellent knowledge of standard engineering practices, techniques, procedures and Structural principles. + Current experience of leading, managing and running (as the principal point of contact) structural engineering design projects. + Wide ranging experience in Building Structures across several market sectors, in particular a proven ability to establish structural design concepts and deliverable design schemes. + Established coaching and mentoring skills. + An understanding of project management principles and practices. + Emerging leadership skills, including skills in business development, client relationship management, technical leadership, team building and motivation. + Sound knowledge of construction contracts and professional agreements and experience in fee preparation and the agreeing of scopes of service. + Excellent communication skills including the ability to write compelling proposals and deliver engaging presentations to existing and prospective clients. **Desirable attributes** + A network of contacts with clients, professional practices, architects and contractors in the London market and Southeast region. + A good appreciation of the construction property market in London with a view on refurbishment, heritage and cultural sector and the drivers for growth in the region. + Experience in selling Civil and Structural Engineering services, as well as multi-disciplinary consultancy services and in leading and managing multi-disciplinary project teams comprising internal teams and sub-consultants. + Experience of managing complex design projects ranging from £10m to £300m in construction value. **Qualifications** + Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline + Chartered Engineer (CEng), Member of either the Institution of Civil Engineers and/or the Institution of Structural Engineers. Assume this is pretty much required rather than just preferred? **Desirable Qualifications** + Being on the Conservation Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE), membership of the IHBC, and/or SPAB or working towards this. **Additional Information** **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. 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. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. **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, 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. **ReqID:** J10118652 **Business Line:** B&P - Buildings & Places **Business Group:** DCS **Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India **Career Area:** Engineering **Work Location Model:** Hybrid **Legal Entity:** AECOM Limited