Design Build Lead Belfast, Northern Ireland
Job description
At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.
We will give you 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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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.
We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.
We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.
When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.
Design & Build Lead, Water Engineering, Ireland
As a Regional Director within Water Engineering, Ireland, you will join a long-established, high-performing team in the delivery of the full range of consultancy services to strategic clients including Northern Ireland Water and Uisce Éireann. With over 140 staff across five locations on the Island, long-term appointments and backlog, and a large future pipeline, significant opportunities exist for personal and professional growth.
In this role you will be a key member of the Water Ireland Leadership team, working with your peers to drive our growth and delivery objectives, with a particular focus on the delivery of design-build projects and the development of our design-build portfolio.
Reporting to the Director for Water Engineering, Ireland & Scotland, you will have the following key responsibilities:
- Growth
- Development of the design-build portfolio.
- Relationship management with our contract partners.
- Development of the design-build delivery team.
- Strategy alignment, positioning, bid leadership and governance.
- Mining of existing framework appointments, securing reappointment, and winning new appointments.
- Securing strategic pursuits.
- Support the Northern Ireland Water CAM.
- Support the Uisce Éireann CAM.
- Delivery
- Act as delivery lead for design-build and major projects.
- Support the Director in achieving the financial plan and growth metrics.
- Contribute to the continued development of our SHE culture.
- Resource management, forecasting, and recruitment.
- Ensure compliance with governance requirements.
- Ensure compliance with quality systems.
- People management, support, and guidance; line management.
- Support staff engagement as part of the retention strategy.
- Fulfil the role of Project Director/Approver to provide oversight of assigned programmes and projects in support of PMs and delivery staff.
- Champion collaborative working across UK&I Water teams, end markets, and EC.
Our team is committed to employee wellbeing and flexible working through our ‘Freedom to Grow’ approach. You will benefit from a challenging role that can be delivered around your personal priorities to create a unique work/life balance that’s right for you.
- BEng/MEng In Civil/Structural/MEICA or related discipline
- Chartered with appropriate institution
Additional Information
With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! 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.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
Join us and let’s get started.
