Technical Director - Dams & Reservoirs

  • Full-time
  • State/Province: Vale of Glamorgan
  • Business Group: DCS
  • Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
  • Business Line: Water
  • Work Location Model: Hybrid
  • Operating Group: International
  • Primary Location: UK - Cardiff, Callaghan Square

Job Description

Are you ready to join a team of talented engineers and help shape the future of water? 

Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water business as a Technical Director in our Dams & Reservoirs Team. In this role, you will help support the delivery of an exceptional portfolio of dams, reservoirs, flooding and water infrastructure projects through our long-term partnerships with key clients. 

Projects will include work on dams and reservoirs, water supply systems and flood risk management schemes. We offer a diverse range of experience for candidates with a wide spectrum of interests and career goals. This position provides an excellent opportunity to join a talented and diverse team committed to innovation, technical excellence and efficient delivery. 

Here’s what you’ll do: 

  • Lead: Drive the technical delivery of a range of water and infrastructure projects, managing multidisciplinary technical teams to deliver value-added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle. 

  • Manage: Oversee key packages of work from conception through to handover, interfacing with AECOM teams, clients and suppliers to create seamless technical solutions. 

  • Collaborate: Work closely with clients, stakeholders and AECOM colleagues to secure buy-in to project solutions, while also contributing to AECOM’s wider technical capability and innovative approach. 

  • Develop: Perform line management duties, support the development of team members, manage their input to projects and provide mentoring. 

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Come grow with us.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 600 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion.  At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

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, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle. 

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what is possible? 

Here’s what we are looking for: 

  • Significant experience in a similar civil engineering, water infrastructure or project management role. 
  • Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering discipline, such as civil, mechanical or electrical engineering, and/or equivalent industry experience. 
  • Chartered or incorporated status with a relevant professional institution, such as ICE, CIWEM or similar, or working towards this. 
  • Clear ambition to work towards Supervising Engineer or All Reservoirs Panel Engineer status in the UK.
  • Proven experience in delivering designs for water infrastructure projects.  
  • Experience in feasibility studies, options appraisal, and concept, outline and detailed design for water company clients. 
  • Experience in managing teams and supporting the technical and financial delivery of projects with multidisciplinary teams. 

Additional Information

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 [email protected]

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!

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

 

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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.

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