Lead Design Engineer/Manager – Potable Water Networks

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Full time
Location: Croydon
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Job offered by: AECOM
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Category: IT & Technology
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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 nearly 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

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to lead a multidisciplinary design team and shape the future of water infrastructure?

Join our innovative and collaborative Water Engineering team as a Lead Design Engineer/Manager in our rapidly growing Exeter, Bristol, Cardiff, Basingstoke, Croydon, St Albans, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or Chesterfield offices, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

At AECOM, we excel in delivering exceptional water programs and projects through long-term partnerships with key clients, including major UK water companies like Wessex Water, Thames Water, Welsh Water, and South West Water, as well as Tier 1 Contractors. In this role, you'll work on significant projects, including potable water networks of all scales, covering all stages of design and construction from feasibility to operation, maintenance, and asset management.

This is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career as a technical project leader, delivering diverse solutions that address today's challenges and anticipate tomorrow's needs.

Here's what you'll do:

Lead:

Drive technical delivery of water mains rehabilitation, network reinforcement and pressure management schemes, 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 counterparts to ensure stakeholder buy in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM's wider technical capability and innovative approach.

Develop:

Perform line manager duties for several staff 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 construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

Experience in managing the technical delivery of water mains rehabilitation, network reinforcement and pressure management projects. You will also have experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams.

Commercial awareness with experience in monitoring and control of engineering budgets.

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.

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.

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