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Technical Director Structural

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In-Office
Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland
Senior level
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Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland
Senior level
The Technical Director Structural will oversee structural engineering design across various sectors, ensuring quality and compliance while managing projects and client relationships.
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Company Description

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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 world’s 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

Start here. Grow here.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Structural Technical Director [TD] to join our Scotland engineering team. The role will cover the design and management of building structures across all sectors including health, leisure, education, commercial, defence, retail etc.As TD you will be responsible for all aspects of structural design of buildings, including technical, quality, programming, resourcing, delivery, financial management, risk and governance.

This role is critical in delivering the design and delivery of structural building design. The role will involve working closely within AECOM multidisciplinary teams, clients, stakeholders and external teams to deliver the highest quality of structural design delivery.  You will work across a range of complex projects, contributing to the continued provision and growth of AECOM’s structural design provision, primarily within the Scotland region.

What you’ll do! 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manages, delivers, supports, oversees and coordinates structural engineering design production activities for the Scotland region.
  • Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognised as authoritative.
  • Initiates and maintains contact with senior-level management within the company and is skilled in dispute resolution and negotiation of critical issues.
  • Ability to garner full understanding of project delivery requirements, as well as offer creativity and foresight to meet project goals and deliver high quality technical excellence.
  • Demonstrates mature judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual technical problems, determining operational objectives and requirements, organising programmes and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse structural engineering activities.

Technical / Functional Expertise:

  • Provides technical structural engineering leadership and is considered to be a fully capable professional in their field.
  • Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of structural engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields. Makes decisions independently on technical problems and methods.
  • Implement improvements to methodologies through use of enhanced technologies or digital techniques to support design and project delivery.
  • Liaises with clients to ascertain and develop scope.
  • Analyses complex issues and is accountable for solving challenge problems • Has full responsibility for interpreting, organising, executing and coordinating assignments and managing projects that are larger in scope and more complex.
  • Provides leadership and direction through Managers and professional staff or leads efforts to grow technical expertise.
  • Facilitates dialogue and provides guidance across functions, geographies and business lines, and with external stakeholders
  • Provides coaching and training on structural topics within the region. 

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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Minimum Qualifications

  • Honours degree in either Civil Engineering  or Structural Engineering.
  • Chartered Structural Engineer status (CEng) (IStructE)
  • The role will require you to be based within our Glasgow office, with home/office hybrid working, with a minimum office attendance of 2 days per week.

Requirements:

  • Excellent knowledge of standard engineering practices, techniques, procedures, and structural principles using various structural forms, eg. concrete, steelwork, timber & masonry.
  • Supervising work, ensuring that it is carried out to an appropriate technical standard, co-ordinated across design disciplines and is managed to programme and budget.
  • Ability to deliver design solutions and assessment of calculations, lead teams, and successfully manage projects.
  • A solid track record of working on structural projects of various size, scale and complexity, possibly as project leader on some, with experience in dealing directly with clients.
  • Familiarity with engineering design and safety practices, and procedures for health & safety, design, and quality assurance.
  • Knowledge and experience of the local Glasgow and wider Scotland construction industry marketplace would be desirable.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet most of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you.

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 $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.

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.

Top Skills

Civil Engineering
Concrete
Masonry
Steelwork
Structural Engineering
Timber

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