Senior Structural Engineer

AECOM Glasgow, Scotland Posted Sep 23, 2025

Contract
Hybrid
Senior

Job description

Company Description

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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.

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Structural Engineer to join our expanding Building Services team in Scotland.

Our Scotland team works closely with our other multidisciplinary teams with over 600 staff covering Building (MEP, Civil, and Structural) Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Transportation, Water, Energy, and environmental consultancy. Our Building Services sector coverage is broad, including Defence, Healthcare, Education, Science, Industrial, and Client Advisory,

What you’ll do!

The Senior Structural Engineer will lead and support mid-large projects from concept to handover. The successful candidate will have proven design experience and deliver on quality, time, and budget. This role will suit someone with a Structural engineering/building services degree who is enthusiastic, self-motivated, and looking to advance their career. The successful candidate will ideally be chartered or working towards chartered status.

Responsibilities:

  • Prepare specifications, schedules, drawings, and other contract documents through the RIBA/project stages.

  • Manage the Structural design delivery of projects from concept through to completion.

  • Attend project and Client meetings on behalf of AECOM.

  • Prepare planning, design, and feasibility reports.

  • Ensure that project work complies with the Project Management Plan and Programme.

  • Come grow with us:

    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.

    You will be exposed to and grow from the diverse range of projects and multi-disciplinary approach that AECOM can offer and will have opportunity to work across a larger AECOM team, often with national and international projects.

    Qualifications

    Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

    Requirements:

  • To have a passion and have a drive for helping clients solve their building services challenges

  • Be a team player, ready to engage across disciplines and work together

  • Have good communication skills

  • Experience in Building Services design, including developing detailed design drawings and calculations, specification writing, and compiling technical schedules.

  • A track record of having worked on Building Services designs across a number of sectors, for example, Education, Science, Healthcare, etc

  • Experience of seeing conceptual designs through to completion and dealing directly with clients.

  • A track record of having delivered low-energy, sustainable designs.

  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Ideally, a relevant Structural, or building services degree, or a relevant discipline and sufficient industry experience to allow Chartered progression

  • Chartered or with qualifications to become chartered.

  • Any Nuclear or equivalent experience in nuclear/marine systems would be beneficial but not essential

  • Important Details:

  • Due to the nature of the work undertaken successful applicants will need to have active UK SC Clearance or the ability to gain UK SC clearance, and ideally have single UK nationality
  • Additional Information

    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!

    Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!

    About 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: J10136652

    Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

    Business Group: DCS

    Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

    Career Area: Engineering

    Work Location Model: Hybrid

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