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AECOM is recruiting an Associate Structural Director to join our Belfast office.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced structural engineer with excellent business acumen and a proven track record in project delivery and assessment of existing structures.

The Belfast Structures team focuses on projects not only in Belfast but also across the world. We specialize in healthcare, data centres, commercial, hospitality, education and civic sectors for public and private clients.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a significant role in future construction projects across Belfast and worldwide locations.

What you’ll do! 

Duties of the Associate Director role include:

• Effectively control the commercial, managerial, and technical aspects of projects and areas of the business for which you are responsible.
• Sourcing opportunities and preparing fee proposals for submission to client, including resources and programme.
• Developing relationships with new clients and enhancing business relationships with existing clients.
• Leading a team of engineers and technicians designing building infrastructure schemes.
• Developing the skills of employees within the team, through mentoring and training; ensuring they have clear direction on how to progress their careers.
• Ensuring the AECOM principles on project delivery are conducted in line with company policy, ensuring quality on all aspect of project delivery.

Specific Requirements;

• Excellent knowledge of design in Reinforced Concrete and Structural Steelwork.
• Excellent understanding on the application of the current Eurocodes relating to structural design.
• Experience in the assessment of existing structures and their justification, as well as new build designs.
• The ability to identify, assess and mitigate risks, relating to both Health & Safety, design and the construction of buildings.
• The ability to effectively communicate and promote your message across the team, senior management and represent AECOM professionally to clients and external bodies.
• Ability to accurately check and verify work, ensuring that it is carried out to the appropriate technical standard and managed to programme and budget constraints.

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. 

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Minimum Professional Qualifications:

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Member of either the Institution of Structural Engineers (MIStructE) and/or the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE).

Desirable Attributes:

• A solid track record of working on and successfully delivered large, diverse, complex projects, where you acted as project leader for the structures discipline.
• Knowledge and experience of the local Belfast marketplace.

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 [email protected]

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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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.