Streets Director - Transportation

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Company Description

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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.

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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:

1. Collaborate: Work 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
5. Ensure Quality: 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:

• 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.
• Be accountable for the Region's performance versus the Financial Year plan and outlook.
• 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.
• Maintain a culture where AECOM is recognised as a great place to work by upholding and communicating AECOM's values, championing equity, diversity and inclusion, promoting employee engagement, career development and succession pathways.
• Identify and attract new talent and lead strategic and senior recruitment within the Region.
• 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.

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.
• Experience in leading teams to deliver project outcomes across a wide range of sectors and travel modes.

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. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.

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!