Graduate Economist Dublin, Ireland (2025 & 2026 Starts)
Graduate Economist Dublin, Ireland (2025 & 2026 Starts)
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We have a number of exciting opportunities for economic graduates to work within our Transport Planning team. As an integrated team we provide economic analysis support for a wide range of transport projects from active travel proposals to heavy rail and motorway projects. Our economists often work alongside engineers architects and master planners in multi-disciplinary teams.
The economics team in Dublin is part of a 600-person Transportation Consulting team spread across UK and Ireland. You will have the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to some of Irelands most significant infrastructure projects spanning the transportation sporting and housing sectors.
We are looking for an ambitious team player who wishes to assist in developing and communicating innovative and effective approaches to the analysis of public expenditure in a collaborative environment. The role would suit a self-motivated individual looking to begin their career in a dynamic team and it better understand how economic theory can be used to help solve real-world practical challenges.
We will of course provide you with all the training and support you need to progress your career and develop professionally. You will be working within a positive culture where learning and development is not only supported but also actively promoted.
Early work with us will typically be supporting senior staff with technical input into a variety of projects. Key responsibilities will include:
- Assisting in data collection and analysis
- Reviewing and building economic models
- Reviewing and drafting infrastructure proposal documents and associated business cases
- Assisting in the preparation of reports presentations bids and proposals
- Attending meetings and workshops with clients and members of other disciplines.
Qualifications :
- Degree/Masters qualification in an economics subject (e.g. economics finance mathematics) from an accredited college or university or overall equivalent experience.
- Project appraisal/cost-benefit analysis/economic impact assessment modules or experience would be an advantage
- Ability to demonstrate a good technical understanding of applied microeconomics and/or transport economics
- Demonstrable interest in transport economics and developing a career in this industry
- Good Microsoft Office skills essential such as Word Excel & PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate effectively to internal and external clients both verbally & in writing with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (clients colleagues stakeholders and sub-contractors alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback
- Enthusiastic hard-working with ambition and drive
- Ability to structure & prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole
- Ability to work in a team and independently without losing initiative & focus.
Additional Information :
About AECOM
AECOM is the worlds 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 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 youre 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. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.
Join us and youll 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 persons potential and well help you reach yours.
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
