Jobs at AECOM

Lead end-to-end high-voltage substation design from grid connection studies and concept development through FEED, detailed design, construction review, and energisation. Manage technical delivery, client and multidisciplinary coordination, quality assurance, resourcing, commercial proposals, safety compliance, and design interfaces. Build client relationships, support grid infrastructure projects, and mentor junior engineers across UK and Ireland energy programs.

Lead planning consents and applications for major infrastructure projects across energy, transport, rail, water, data centre, and electricity sectors. Coordinate technical and environmental inputs, conduct due diligence and pre-application discussions, provide regulatory planning advice, manage stakeholders, and support competitive tenders. The role also requires multidisciplinary collaboration, quality review, report writing, presentations, and application of current planning legislation and case law.

Leads and grows AECOM’s Irish town planning and planning consents service. Responsibilities include leading major infrastructure development applications, advising clients and internal teams, managing multidisciplinary projects, overseeing quality and compliance, mentoring staff, and supporting business development, tenders, and client relationships across transport, energy, water, rail, and other infrastructure sectors.

Manages cost control, budgeting, forecasting, procurement, tendering, contract cash flow, cost reporting, variance analysis, and financial risk for major rail infrastructure projects. Partners with project stakeholders to optimize value, ensure compliance, improve cost-management processes, and support integrated planning. The role also coaches junior team members and presents financial insights to senior management.

Manages budgeting, procurement, cost control, forecasting, financial reporting, and cost-related risk for rail infrastructure projects. The role develops cost management processes, oversees tendering and contract administration, monitors expenditure and cash flow, evaluates variances, and recommends corrective actions. It collaborates with project managers and multidisciplinary teams to support planning, compliance, value optimization, and successful project delivery.

Lead multidisciplinary teams delivering complex hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centre projects across Europe. Oversee design phases from site due diligence and planning through construction documentation, ensuring quality, schedule, compliance, and risk mitigation. Manage client relationships, presentations, permitting coordination, commercial governance, and technical delivery across architecture, engineering, security, fire protection, ICT, and building systems disciplines. Regular travel across UK&I and European offices is required.

Manage the planning, coordination, and delivery of enabling works for major rail infrastructure programmes, including site preparation, utility diversions, demolition, surveys, and pre-construction activities. Responsibilities include managing scope, budgets, schedules, contracts, stakeholders, risks, quality, safety, environmental compliance, and reporting. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams and supply chain partners, oversees site inspections, and ensures enabling works integrate effectively with subsequent construction phases.

Lead programme-level quality management and assurance across major Irish rail, tunnelling, and transport infrastructure projects. Develop quality plans and governance frameworks, monitor performance indicators, oversee audits and inspections, manage non-conformances and corrective actions, and report risks to senior leadership. Collaborate with clients, designers, contractors, and project teams to embed consistent quality standards, support stage-gate reviews, and drive continuous improvement across complex programme interfaces.

Leads architectural design and coordination for complex multidisciplinary data centre and infrastructure projects across RIBA stages. Oversees technical design information, quality, compliance, documentation, client presentations, design teams, budgets, timelines, and contractor interfaces. Mentors staff, supports bids and business development, manages resources, and promotes digital workflow improvements. Requires ARB registration or equivalent, strong technical design experience, knowledge of UK building regulations, CAD, and Microsoft Office.

Senior Architect responsible for leading and coordinating architectural design across large multidisciplinary data centre projects. Duties include producing accurate technical documentation, managing design workflows and deadlines, coordinating with engineering and site teams, presenting to clients, applying CDM safety principles, ensuring quality and governance, supporting staff development, and using digital design tools including Revit and CAD. The role involves substantial travel across the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

Lead delivery of major rail project packages across design, planning, procurement, construction, and operational readiness. Manage scope, budgets, schedules, contracts, risks, quality, safety, stakeholder coordination, reporting, and multidisciplinary integration. Support site inspections, compliance checks, systems integration, and continuous improvement while ensuring alignment with programme objectives and operational railway requirements.

Leads integrated project scheduling for complex rail infrastructure projects, including baselines, milestone tracking, critical path analysis, risk mitigation, budgets, cost profiles, valuations, accruals, reporting, and governance. The role coordinates cross-functional teams, contractors, regulators, and senior stakeholders; ensures compliance with standards; supports project delivery within schedule and budget; mentors junior staff; and drives continuous improvement in planning methodologies.

Supports the Commercial Administration Lead with drafting, reviewing, finalizing, and maintaining commercial contracts for rail projects. Maintains contract records and systems, monitors milestones and obligations, identifies risks, prepares compliance and performance reports, supports negotiations, and assists with invoicing and payment processing. The role also coordinates contract-related communications with internal stakeholders, vendors, suppliers, and external partners while ensuring compliance with legal and organizational requirements.

Manages project controls across rail infrastructure projects, including planning, cost, risk, change, performance measurement, earned value management, reporting, and governance. Establishes baselines and PMO frameworks, oversees project reviews and financial reporting, assesses risks and changes, supports resource mobilization and compliance, and provides assurance for complex programmes. Leads and mentors project controllers while improving tools, processes, reporting standards, and cross-functional collaboration.

We seek Geotechnical Engineers/Geologists at all levels to join AECOM's Ground Engineering team, delivering innovative project solutions across various sectors.

Provide project controls services across planning/scheduling, cost estimating, reporting, and risk management for infrastructure, healthcare and data centre projects. Manage multiple projects, collaborate with stakeholders, and support high-profile programmes within a consultancy environment.

Oversee document storage, version control, access permissions, review workflows, distribution, compliance, and records throughout rail infrastructure projects. Manage document management systems, maintain accurate audit trails, produce status and compliance reports, resolve documentation issues, improve processes, and support stakeholders and vendors. Provide guidance and mentoring to junior document controllers while ensuring efficient, compliant document flow across the project lifecycle.

Manages interface activities for complex rail infrastructure projects across planning, construction, delivery, and handover. Develops interface, logistics, integration, and security strategies; coordinates multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants, clients, and external stakeholders; defines responsibilities across work packages; supports specifications, testing, supervision, acceptance, and project controls. Ensures compliance with safety, quality, scope, schedule, budget, and regulatory requirements while providing technical guidance and fostering effective cross-functional integration.

Lead mechanical delivery for hyperscale and co-location data centre projects across UK/EMEA. Drive technical excellence, client relationships, work-winning, team leadership, and project financial management.

Lead programme-wide reporting for rail projects: establish reporting governance, develop BI dashboards and templates, manage reporting cycles, improve data quality, mentor reporting team, and deliver timely, decision-ready insights for senior stakeholders.