Senior Engineer

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Our Ireland Roads Team currently has a vacancy for a Senior Roads Engineer/ Consultant within our Cork office following continued growth of the workload and the team. 

The successful candidate will have a good grounding in road engineering design, urban design, and project management. They should be ready to take the next step in their career taking on responsibility for delivery and co-ordination of projects and design packages on complex road and Active Travel infrastructure projects. They will have the ability to deal directly with clients and fill a key project co-ordination position within the wider team leading graduate engineers, technicians, and supporting disciplines to deliver successfully. 

The Cork Roads team works both locally and across the UK & I market. Our current portfolio of works comprises a diverse mix of local, national and international highway and infrastructure improvements across significant delivery programmes for major Clients, including BusConnects in Dublin and Cork, major Greenway projects, multiple active travel and bus priority schemes with various local authorities in Ireland. 

Current & Upcoming Projects:

• Dun Laoghaire Central Active Travel Scheme 
• BusConnects Cork
• Tullamore Cycle Network
• BusConnects Dublin
• Liberty Square Thurles Phase 2
• Deerpark Westport Active Travel Scheme 
• Tulla Road, Ennis
• South Main Street, Bandon
• NTA Technical Advisory Framework, which includes an array of projects such as Safe Routes to Schools, active travel and bus infrastructure improvement schemes including Dun Laoghaire Terminals, Hazelhatch and Belgard Square.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Deliver: Expected to lead and deliver on our portfolio of active travel or greenway schemes where there will be opportunity for significant progression where the right person will grow into a design lead and project manager role. You will also be involved in the delivery of key major roads packages for our national road's schemes.
• Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent discipline 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: You will have experience of working collaboratively as part of a team developing a range of local, national, and international road schemes or similar major civil engineering projects and will have been directly responsible for delivering scheme design packages, and coordinating input from other disciplines.  The candidate will ideally have experience of working on urban schemes and dealing with the associated challenges. 
• 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: Working with a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. 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

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience of supporting delivery of infrastructure through the Irish statutory processes including ABP/SID/Part 8 & associated EIA/AA processes 
• Experience of design of schemes in an urban setting 
• Significant technical design experience across a range of disciplines to Cycle Design Manual (or similar international cycle design guidelines), TII Standards, DMRB, SRW and MCHW, and DMURS or similar transferable international experience 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Chartered Engineer 
• Safe Pass 

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 ReasonableAdjustments@aecom.com.

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

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne

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.