Facade Associate Director

Start here. Grow here. 

We are excited to offer an outstanding opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced Associate Director to join our growing Façade Engineering Team. 

This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a visionary and commercially minded façade professional who is keen to lead and grow a specialist façade consultancy team shape the strategic direction of our services and deliver innovative technically excellent solutions across a diverse portfolio of projects. 

As Associate Director you will play a key role in technical leadership client development project delivery team growth and business development. You will work closely with clients architects contractors and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality buildable and commercially successful façade solutions. 

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence the continued growth and development of our façade consultancy capability while mentoring and developing the next generation of façade professionals. 

Heres what youll do: 

As an Associate Director you will play a pivotal role in shaping the success of our projects team and business. Your responsibilities will include: 

Business Development & Commercial Leadership 

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key clients architects contractors developers and other industry stakeholders. 
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities and contribute to the development of a strong project pipeline. 
• Develop project fee proposals negotiate appointments and support the commercial management of projects. 
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness including an understanding of project profitability resource utilisation fee forecasting and risk. 
• Lead and contribute to successful bids tenders and pitch presentations. 
• Represent the company at industry events conferences and client meetings promoting our façade engineering expertise and capabilities. 
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the façade teams business plan and wider company strategic initiatives. 
• Participate in senior leadership meetings and contribute to business planning and strategic decision-making. 
• Collaborate with other AECOM teams to develop multidisciplinary opportunities and company-wide initiatives. 
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration across the wider business. 
• Act as a senior ambassador for the façade engineering capability both internally and externally. 

 Technical & Project Leadership 

• Lead the delivery of a significant portfolio of national and international façade projects across a range of sectors and project scales. 
• Provide senior technical leadership ensuring solutions achieve the appropriate balance oftechnical performance quality buildability programme sustainability and cost. 
• Provide strategic advice to clients architects contractors and project teams on façade design performance and delivery. 
• Oversee façade design development technical reviews specifications performance analysis testing and construction-stage support. 
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with relevant standards regulations contractual requirements and industry best practice. 
• Promote innovation and the adoption of emerging façade technologies materials and design approaches. 
• Work collaboratively with structural architectural sustainability building services and other multidisciplinary teams to develop integrated design solutions. 

People & Team Leadership 

• Lead develop and inspire a high-performing specialist façade engineering team. 
• Mentor engineers and provide technical and professional guidance to support their career development. 
• Oversee professional development performance reviews chartership and other key people-management activities. 
• Support recruitment succession planning and the development of the teams technical capability. 
• Lead façade team resourcing to ensure appropriate technical expertise and capacity across the project portfolio. 
• Create an environment that encourages collaboration knowledge sharing innovation and continuous professional development. 

Innovation Sustainability & R&D 

• Support and lead R&D initiatives that advancesustainable energy-efficient and resilient façade design solutions. 
• Encourage the adoption of innovative materials systems digital tools and façade technologies. 
• Contribute to the development of technical guidance standards and best practice within the façade discipline. 
• Promote whole-life performance and sustainability considerations within façade design and consultancy services. 

Come grow with us: 

And 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 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. 

Qualifications :

Ready to push the limits of whats possible 

Requirements: 

• Degree qualified inengineering architecture building design or a related discipline. 
• Chartered Engineer or equivalent professional qualification with a relevant professional institution. 
• Extensive experience within the façade industry including significant experience inspecialist façade consultancy. 
• Proven experience leading façade projects from concept through to construction and completion. 
• Strong understanding of façade system design performance requirements materials interfaces testing and compliance. 
• Good knowledge of relevant façade structural and building regulations standards and industry guidance. 
• Demonstrable experience inbusiness development fee proposals bidding and winning new work. 
• Strong commercial awareness and experience of managing project and/or team financial performance. 
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with clients architects contractors and other stakeholders. 
• Demonstrable experience ofleading mentoring and developing engineers and technical professionals. 
• Experience with relevant façade and structural analysis/design software such asStrand7 SJ MEPLA THERM or Flixo together with AutoCAD and/or Revit. 
• Good IT skills including Microsoft Office and a willingness to develop knowledge of emerging digital tools and façade technologies. 
• A proactive approach to innovation sustainability and continuous professional development. 
• Acumen in the Digital design 

Additional Information :

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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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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