Senior Engineer - Roads Public Transport Greenways

Start here. Grow here.

The AECOM Surface Transportation Aviation & Ports Team in Ireland has over 150 professionals operating from Belfast Dublin Cork and Galway. We are seeking a highly driven Senior Engineer to join our Ireland Roads Public Transport and Greenways Team.

We are looking to grow this team with individuals who have a sound technical background good communication skills and that share our enthusiasm and determination to develop our business and deliver for our key clients.

The successful candidate will be a Chartered Engineer or close to achieving Chartered Engineer status with a good grounding in road engineering design greenway design urban design and project management.

The role will suit a selfmotivated individual who is aspiring to take a lead role in project delivery and manage dynamic teams delivering high quality projects. The person will need to adopt a flexible approach and be able to work away from our Belfast office to suit our projects needs.

Current & Upcoming Projects for our team:

• Department for Infrastructure (DfI) Northern Ireland Newry Southern Relief Road
• Donegal Greenways Buncrana to Carndonagh Burtonport to Letterkenny Barnesmore Gap Three Trees to Carndonagh Carrigans to Lifford
• National Transport Authority (NTA) National Bus Stops Design Team
• DfI Support Services for Intelligent Transport Systems and EU Funded Projects
• N4 Mullingar to Longford (Roosky)
• BusConnects Dublin & Cork
• NTA Bus Depots and Bus Terminals
• Greenways Phases 1 4 including West Cork Greenway Skibbereen Sections and Galway to Oughterard

Heres what youll do:

• Deliver: Lead and deliver on our portfolio of Roads and Greenway projects where there will be opportunity for significant progression where the right candidate will grow into a design lead and project manager role. 
• Oversee: You will be responsible for the appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery. Plan and develop engineering tasks concerned with unique problems. This involves exploration of subject area definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multidisciplinary projects from conceptual phases to implementation.
• Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our projects you will hold our clients hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise.
• Collaborate: Working collaboratively as part of a team developing a range of local national and international road schemes or similar major civil engineering projects.

Ready to push the limits of whats possible

Heres what were looking for:

• Post qualification (see requirements below) experience in supporting delivery of infrastructure through UK and/or Irish statutory processes for roads and active travel schemes (e.g. Development Consent Orders Direction Orders S38/Part 8 and An Bord Pleanla applications).
• Experience of design of active travel schemes in both rural and urban settings.
• Experience in the preparation and supervision of construction contracts for UK and/or Ireland projects with the New Engineering Contract and Public Works Contract forms particularly desirable.
• Experience in the coordination of discipline teams (e.g. geotechnics transport planning environmental structures) to complete scheme designs.
• Technical design experience to engineering cycling and bus priority standards and guidelines in the UK and/or Ireland i.e.:
  • Technical design experience with the UK and/or Ireland Design Manual for Roads and Bridges Specification for Highway/Road Works and Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works on schemes is considered essential.
  • Technical design experience with the UK and/or Ireland guidance on cycle design is not essential but considered desirable. Experience with the Ireland Cycle Design Manual and Design Manual for Urban Streets is particularly desirable.
  • Technical design experience in bus priority schemes in the UK and/or Ireland is not essential but considered desirable. Experience with NTA Bus Stop Guidance is particularly desirable.

Come grow with us.

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

And lets not forget about the perks at AECOM. Youll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and wellbeing customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a worklife balance that suits your lifestyle technical practice networks AECOM University and volunteering days

Qualifications :

• A Joint Board of Moderators accredited or Irish National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) Level 8 (or higher) degree in Civil Engineering or similar is essential.
• Chartered Engineer but we will consider candidates who demonstrate their ongoing progression toward achieving Chartered Engineer status within a clear timeframe.

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

At AECOM we value everyones 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!

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industryleading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or longterm condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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