Associate Director

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The AECOM Surface Transportation, Aviation & Ports Team in Ireland has over 150 professionals operating from Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Belfast. We are seeking a highly driven Associate Director to join our Ireland Roads, Public Transport, and Greenways Team delivering projects across the country.

Working within a well-established group the candidate will provide technical, commercial, and team leadership to our multidisciplinary teams which will be based on strong track record in the Roads & Greenways consultancy sector. You will be expected to interface in person with clients across Ireland.

We are looking for confidence in preparing feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed designs, and administration of contracts through construction and handover. You will have experience of road projects of various sizes, with a particular focus on TII schemes including roads, bus priority, greenways and light rail schemes, NTA major schemes, Public Transport Schemes such as BusConnects, and transportation D&B Schemes. You will be responsible for working with internal and external clients, to cross sell our service capabilities and to ensure successful delivery.

You will play an active role in preparing reports and tenders and demonstrate strong project management skills and commercial acumen. The candidate will be recognized by peers and clients as a subject matter expert or design lead in Road Design, Public Transport Design, Greenway and Active Travel Design, or other similar complex transportation infrastructure.

Current & Upcoming Projects:

• N4 Mullingar to Longford (Roosky)
• BusConnects Cork
• BusConnects Dublin
• Newry Southern Relief Road
• A5 Western Transport Corridor
• Dun Laoghaire Central Active Travel Scheme
• NTA Ballycoolin Bus Depot
• NTA Belgard Square Bus Layover
• NTA National Bus Stops Design Team
• Galway to Oughterard Greenway
• Donegal Greenways
• West Cork Greenway – Skibbereen Sections
• N3 M50 to Clonee
• Newbridge Network Active Travel Scheme
• Naas Newbridge Interurban Active Travel Scheme
• M50 EMOS project, Dublin

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Deliver: A wide portfolio of Road projects from pursuit through to completion or single large-scale commissions.
• Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery. Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area, definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
• Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise.
• Collaborate: Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.

Duties:

• Mitigate and manage contract risk associated with scope creep and monitor key project performance indicators and ensure that project data is accurate and provided in a timely manner.
• Provide technical scrutiny and verification of project deliverables and independently prepare reports and communicate with senior management.
• Demonstrate team leadership skills and undertake mentoring and line management duties.
• Bring innovation and new ideas to clients and project teams.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, and the ability to contribute to bid development.
• Demonstrated competence in management of safety during design and construction with understanding of the legislative requirements for designers, and the ability to contribute and lead this element on projects and champion AECOM quality assurance and quality control standards.

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.

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy 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

Requirements

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Ideally chartered with a relevant institution (e.g. Engineers Ireland, ICE or similar)
• Experience in Road and Highways engineering and approves sign off on complex transportation designs.
• Experience in NTA and TII Standards, Project Management Guidelines, and Project Appraisal Guidelines
• You will have a good working knowledge of contracts including PWC/GCC/ NEC/FIDIC, preference for candidate who have acted (or supported) as employers rep or equivalent on works contracts above €5m, and the associated dispute resolution processes.

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].

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!