Associate Director - Roads, Public Transport, & Greenways, Dublin
Client: AECOM
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Job Category: Technical
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: J10121758
Job Views: 64
Posted: 27.03.2025
Job Description:
Company Description
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.
Job Description
The AECOM Surface Transportation, Aviation & Ports Team in Ireland has over 150 professionals operating from Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Belfast. We are seeking a highly driven Associate Director to join our Ireland Roads, Public Transport, and Greenways Team delivering projects across the country.
Working within a well-established group, the candidate will provide technical, commercial, and team leadership to our multidisciplinary teams based on a strong track record in the Roads & Greenways consultancy sector. You will be expected to interface in person with clients across Ireland.
We are looking for confidence in preparing feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed designs, and administration of contracts through construction and handover. You will have experience of road projects of various sizes, with a particular focus on TII schemes including roads, bus priority, greenways, and light rail schemes, NTA major schemes, and Public Transport Schemes such as BusConnects.
You will play an active role in preparing reports and tenders and demonstrate strong project management skills and commercial acumen. The candidate will be recognized by peers and clients as a subject matter expert or design lead in Road Design, Public Transport Design, Greenway and Active Travel Design, or other similar complex transportation infrastructure.
Current & Upcoming Projects:
1. N4 Mullingar to Longford (Roosky)
2. BusConnects Cork
3. BusConnects Dublin
4. Newry Southern Relief Road
5. A5 Western Transport Corridor
6. Dun Laoghaire Central Active Travel Scheme
7. NTA Ballycoolin Bus Depot
8. NTA Belgard Square Bus Layover
9. NTA National Bus Stops Design Team
10. Galway to Oughterard Greenway
11. Donegal Greenways
12. West Cork Greenway – Skibbereen Sections
13. N3 M50 to Clonee
14. Newbridge Network Active Travel Scheme
15. Naas Newbridge Interurban Active Travel Scheme
16. M50 EMOS project, Dublin
Responsibilities:
1. Deliver: A wide portfolio of Road projects from pursuit through to completion or single large-scale commissions.
2. Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery.
3. Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
4. Ensure Quality: Hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise.
5. Collaborate: Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and build effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.
Qualifications:
Here’s what we’re looking for:
1. Ideally chartered with a relevant institution (e.g. Engineers Ireland, ICE or similar)
2. Experience in Road and Highways engineering and approves sign off on complex transportation designs.
3. Experience in NTA and TII Standards, Project Management Guidelines, and Project Appraisal Guidelines.
4. Good working knowledge of contracts including PWC/GCC/ NEC/FIDIC.
5. Preference for candidates who have acted (or supported) as employers rep or equivalent on works contracts above €5m.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities.
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