Streets Director - Transportation

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Company Description

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Our Streets and Technology team, within our Transportation business line, has an exciting opportunity for a Streets Director to lead the delivery of transportation engineering schemes across our Central Region which includes our Southwest and Welsh market. There are six office bases within this region. We love that our clients consistently rate us highly for our work in the transportation sector, including active travel, bus priority, road safety and traffic engineering, mass transit and continue to deliver high profile, award winning and impactful projects across the region.

In this role, you will have a specific focus on operational delivery, project and resource management, workload pipeline, people management and staff engagement. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our focus on people, clients, technical excellence, and quality, whilst driving sustainable growth across regions and end markets. Your exceptional leadership skills will be instrumental in guiding innovation and delivering a better world. The successful candidate will join a dynamic team that is passionate about providing work to clients that we are technically proud of, market leading and responds to the changing industry we are facing with rapid technological advancements and the need to respond to climate change.

You will be part of the UK and Ireland Streets Management Team and will work with the other Regions and our overseas design resource to maintain a steady workflow and to provide our clients with the best team for the project. Not all projects are based in UK and Ireland and therefore there will be opportunities to work with our colleagues in other parts of the world.

Here's what you'll do:

• Collaborate: Working with our Work Winning Team and other teams including across business lines to expand and enhance client relationships ensuring we are always looking to the future to maintain and grow a healthy pipeline.
• Deliver: The Streets and Technology team is responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of projects aimed at improving our streets and places for local authority clients across the UK and Ireland. We provide feasibility, concept, preliminary and detailed design, community engagement, project delivery and construction management services on a wide range of multi-discipline transportation and urban realm projects. In addition, we support other AECOM business lines where their projects have a specialised transportation interface.
• Oversee: Ensure that we are resourced with teams that have the right qualities to provide the services and standards that our clients expect for current and future needs.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
• Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients' hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise. Provide Health, Safety and Wellness leadership to the Region consistent with AECOM's safety policies and procedures to deliver a safe and healthy working environment for the project team members.

Key Responsibilities:

The Streets Director will be accountable for safety, quality, ethics, people management and delivery of the operational performance of the Region; specifically, they will:

• Lead by example by visibly driving our Safety, Health & Environmental (SH&E) culture, ensuring effective implementation of AECOM SH&E policies and procedures throughout the region, and achievement of the SH&E core value metrics.
• Be Accountable for the Regions performance versus the Financial Year plan and outlook.
• Accountable for the accuracy of the contracted pipeline revenues for the Region by ensuring that our project and financial systems and processes are complete and accurate.
• Ensure that the Region has in place the right resource management processes, including collaboration across regions and with our Overseas Design Resource, project managers and technical experts, to provide predictable workload forecasts and allocate resources effectively to optimise project and business performance.
• Maintain a culture where AECOM is recognised as a great place to work by upholding and communicating AECOM's values (incl. wider social values), championing equity, diversity and inclusion, promoting employee engagement, career development and succession pathways.
• Work alongside the Work Winning team to support client development and growth opportunities through mining of existing contracts, winning new business and optimising return on client account management.
• Identify and attract new talent and lead strategic and senior recruitment within the Region.
• Apply AECOM governance to all regional key pursuit Go/No Go Processes in accordance with our delegated powers.
• Drive change programs as and when to increase efficiency, profitability, and operational quality within and across regions.
• Drive project delivery and commercial excellence, ensuring projects are completed on time, on budget, to the right quality and to the client's satisfaction.
• Ensure compliance with all AECOM policies and procedures and uphold our core values.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project.

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?

Here's what we're looking for:

• A track record of achieving/exceeding financial KPIs and driving business growth.
• Effective communication, interpersonal, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Flexible and proactive approach and ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Experience in leading teams to deliver project outcomes across a wide range of sectors and travel modes.
• Demonstrated success in implementing change programs and managing data-driven performance improvements.

Preferred Qualification:

• Relevant degree and will ideally have a leadership qualification along with membership of a professional institution.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com.

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some 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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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne.

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.

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