Lead Structural Engineer - Water

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water Team as a Lead Structural Engineer. You can be based in one of our UK offices whilst also taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

We are delivering an exciting portfolio of high-value capital programmes and projects through long-term frameworks with major clients in the water sector. Our direct clients include most major water companies, and also a number of Tier 1 contractors working in the sector. Our projects cover new and upgraded clean and wastewater networks, and all scales of treatment works upgrades. 

The variety of work and clients, combined with ambitious water sector AMP8 programmes from our clients makes this an exciting time to join the AECOM team, and a fantastic opportunity to develop your career as a technical leader, delivering solutions on a diverse range of projects that meet the technical challenges of today and tomorrow.

Our Water Team has delivered some of the most high-profile projects in the UK, and your projects and clients will be varied and interesting. We have existing frameworks with key clients that include Wessex Water, South West Water, Severn Trent Water, Thames Water and Southern Water. We also suppliers to major contractors including Kier, Murphy Group and Morrison Construction. Current projects include Avonmouth WRC FFT, Knapp Mill WTW, Alderney WTW and Wanlip Green Recovery.

Here's what you'll do:

• Technical Excellence: You will deploy technical excellence in the design of a wide range of heavy civil engineering structures, from deep below ground pumping stations to large above ground water-retaining concrete structures, and complex piled foundations to steel-framed buildings. This will encompass all design stages of water and wastewater projects including carrying out feasibility studies, preparing reference designs, detailed designs, and preparing reports and technical specifications.
• Deliver: Using your experience, knowledge and judgement, you will develop structural solutions to interesting and often complex challenges. You will lead and oversee detailed design activities by others, as well as prepare detailed designs yourself.
• Expertise: You will challenge the norm, identifying and implementing innovative ideas, best practice and new ways of thinking and working to help deliver value for our clients.
• Lead: You will lead the structural design of projects as well as mentor and support the professional development of team members. Through your leadership you will foster positive client relationships.
• Communicate: You will be the interface with other project design disciplines and harness your excellent communication skills when dealing with clients and other project stakeholders.
• Documentation: You will be involved in the preparation and reviewing high-quality drawings, calculations, specifications and reports to communicate solutions.
• Quality: Quality will be central to everything you do. You will review and sign-off project deliverables with a focus on compliance and efficiency.

Join our team. 

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. 

Let's not forget the perks! You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, we want to hear from you. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry! 

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A degree (or equivalent) in civil and structural engineering.
• Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional institution; for example, ICE, IStructE.
• Experience in structural design using appropriate standards and specification.
• Experience in leading the development of robust and efficient structural solutions and managing technical delivery in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Experience in coordinating, liaising and engaging with clients and key stakeholders.
• Experience in mentoring, guiding and providing technical advice and support to others.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities so, if you're an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable adjustment to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]

Additional Information

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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 $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 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.

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 [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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