Principal Engineer - Transportation

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Our Streets team within our Transportation business line has a vacancy for a Principal Engineer based in our Birmingham Office.

The streets team is growing to cater for an increased workload particularly Active Travel and Bus Priority schemes. It provides concept preliminary and detailed designs on a wide range of projects for local authorities and contractors and supports other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised traffic and highways interface. 

The successful candidate will be joining a dedicated team that is actively involved in the delivery of high-profile projects and services to a range of both local and national clients.

As a Principal Engineer you will provide project management and technical leadership on projects. In doing so you will support our contract commitments whilst ensuring technical excellence and co-ordination between disciplines. You will have the opportunity to undertake line management duties and to mentor and direct junior members of the team and support them in their professional development. 

You will have appropriate qualifications and relevant project delivery experience. The role would suit a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career in a dynamic team.

Current & Upcoming Projects:

Various projects with a range of local authority clients across the region including:

• West Midlands Combined Authority / Transport for West Midlands 
• City of Wolverhampton Council 
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council 
• Herefordshire Council

 Heres what youll do:

• Deliver:  Provide feasibility concept preliminary and detailed design community engagement project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-disciplinary transportation and urban realm projects. Deliver work from the Birmingham office in conjunction with other teams across the UK and Ireland and our Global delivery centres.
• Oversee: Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems including exploration of subject area definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Provide Expertise: Offer 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 overcome problems in collaboration with our Clients. Ensure our schemes are delivered to the highest quality in line with AECOMs quality procedures and Project Delivery System.
• Collaborate: Support a team of multi-disciplinary consultants to deliver integrated designs and build effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership on projects or packages of work for traffic engineering schemes.
• Prepare detailed technical reports technical specifications and cost estimates.
• Act as an AECOM accredited Project Manager managing the financial performance of projects. (Comprehensive training on AECOMs project management system will be provided).
• Lead on quality management and ensure compliance of designs with the requirements of the brief all applicable standards regulations and AECOM quality procedures.
• Prepare detailed proposals client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to or lead bids.
• Undertake Health & Safety duties including ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for the project team and fulfilling all CDM responsibilities including safety in design
• Undertake client-facing project duties representing AECOM as the key point of contact.
• Undertake line manager responsibilities for junior staff providing guidance management and career planning and completing annual performance evaluations.
• Support the technical and professional development of members of the team sharing knowledge managing their input into projects and mentoring them towards professional qualification.

Come grow with us.

Lets not forget about the perks at AECOM. Youll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle  career development opportunities technical practice networks AECOM University and volunteering days

Qualifications :

Ready to push the limits of whats possible

Heres what were looking for:

• A relevant degree and have or be working towards Chartered status with a recognised Professional Institution
• A successful track record in the project management and delivery of traffic engineering schemes.
• Knowledge and experience of relevant design and safety standards (e.g. DMRB TSRGD MCHW LTN 1/20 Manual for Streets CDM Regulations).
• Excellent technical and communication skills.
• An ability to deal directly with clients.
• Experience of team management including technical development and mentoring of staff

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 

At AECOM we value everyones 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!

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.