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Head of Structural Engineering UK & Ireland
- manchester, greater manchester, United Kingdom
- Hybrid
Job Description
- *Company Description**
- *Work with Us. Change the World.** At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the worlds most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
- *Job Description** AECOM is a global leader in infrastructure consulting, delivering professional services across the project lifecyclefrom advisory, planning, design and engineering to programme management and construction management. Across the UK & Ireland, AECOMs Structural Engineering practice works across public and private sectors, delivering awardwinning design solutions spanning commercial, residential, transport, defence, healthcare, education, and major mixeduse environments. The Head of Structural Engineering will also play a key role in business development, major pursuits, key client relationships, talent strategy, and practice-wide innovation.
- *Key Responsibilities**
- *Leadership & Strategy** Define and deliver the strategic vision for the Structural Engineering practice across the UK & Ireland. Lead, inspire, and develop highperforming structural engineering teams across multiple locations. Align structural engineering strategy with AECOMs wider business and growth objectives. Champion a culture of design excellence, technical quality, collaboration, and innovation. Represent the structural engineering discipline within regional and global leadership forums.
- *Business Development & Market Growth** Drive market positioning and growth across priority sectors (e.g., Transportation, Defence, Healthcare, Commercial, Education, MixedUse, Government). Lead major pursuits, bids, and proposal strategies in partnership with the Work Winning team. Develop and maintain seniorlevel client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor. Identify and pursue new market opportunities, strategic partnerships, and frameworks.
- *Project & Design Leadership** Provide oversight on major structural engineering and multi-disciplinary commissions, ensuring quality, risk management, compliance, and design integrity. Serve as Design Authority or Technical Reviewer on complex, highprofile projects. Promote integrated, multidisciplinary working across engineering, digital, planning, and advisory teams.
- *Technical Leadership** Possess Technical Capabilities to resolve complex problems and represent a focal point for technical expertise. Possess a degree of recognition and standing within the industry for technical proficiency in structural engineering.
- *Operational & Financial Management** Accountable for practicewide financial performance, revenue forecasting, utilisation, and profitability. Oversee resource planning, project staffing, and capacity management. Implement consistent operational standards, QA/QC processes, and best practice delivery tools.
- *People & Talent Development** Lead talent strategy for the Structural Engineering practice including recruitment, retention, succession planning, and early careers development. Foster a diverse, inclusive, supportive studio culture. Promote professional accreditation, CPD, and career progression pathways.
- *Digital, Sustainability & Innovation** Champion digital design tools (Revit, BIM, parametric design, digital twins). Embed sustainability principles aligned to AECOMs ESG and netzero goals. Encourage research, thought leadership, and new ways of working.
- *Qualifications** Chartered Structural Engineer (MIStructE or FIStructE). Significant experience in leading structural engineering teams at a senior or director level. Demonstrable track record in delivering major projects and managing large multidisciplinary teams. Strong commercial acumen with experience in P&L responsibility. Proven business development and client relationship management experience. Excellent communication, negotiation, and strategic leadership skills. Experience with BIM and digital design workflows.
- *Additional Information**
- *Preferred Experience** Experience working within large consultancy or multidisciplinary environments. Established reputation and network within UK structural consultancy markets. Experience with major complex infrastructure, defence, transportation, healthcare or largescale commercial/mixeduse schemes. Familiarity with ISO19650, UK building regulations, government frameworks, and procurement routes. At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. **_To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment._**
- *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 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 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.
- *ReqID:** J
- *Business Line:** B&P - Buildings & Places
- *Business Group:** DCS
- *Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India
- *Career Area:** Engineering
- *Work Location Model:** Hybrid