Associate Director - Local Roads Traffic & Highways

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Lead the way in sustainable transport and join AECOM as an Associate Director.

At AECOM, we’re shaping streets that move people—not just traffic. From active travel and bus user priority, to challenging urban engineering solutions, our work is redefining how cities function and thrive. Now, we’re looking for an Associate Director to help lead the growth of our Liverpool Streets team and make a lasting impact across the North and beyond.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines technical excellence, commercial awareness, and inspiring people leadership —and who wants to play a visible role in growing a successful, forward-thinking business.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of traffic and sustainable transport projects , acting as Project Director or Project Manager and ensuring outstanding technical quality, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.

Just as importantly, you’ll help shape our future —building strong client relationships, identifying new opportunities, and leading bids that win exciting work. You’ll work closely with colleagues across AECOM’s UK & Ireland business, with opportunities to collaborate internationally.

Why this role is different

You’ll be joining a market-leading Streets team recognised for excellence in:

• Active travel and healthy streets

• Public transport, bus priority and BRT

• Urban realm and complex traffic engineering

We’re a collaborative, supportive team that values ideas, encourages innovation, and invests in people. If you’re motivated by influence, growth, and real-world impact, you’ll feel at home here.

Your leadership impact

• Inspire, manage, and develop a high-performing project delivery team

• Act as a proactive Line Manager, supporting career progression and technical development

• Build strong working relationships across disciplines and business lines

• Champion best practice, innovation, and continuous improvement

Your technical expertise

You’ll bring strong experience in one or more of the following:

• As an AD you will play a key role in developing practical, high-quality engineering solutions that move from concept through to construction-ready detail

• Sustainable transport, including walking, cycling, and active travel

• Bus priority and BRT schemes

• Municipal engineering and urban realm projects

• Collision analysis and road safety audits

• Site experience (desirable, not essential)

• You’ll be comfortable working with DMRB, MfS, LTN guidance, MCHW , and local authority standards.

What we’re looking for

• A proven track record delivering complex transport and streets projects

• Strong commercial acumen and demonstrable work-winning experience

• Confidence leading bids, proposals, and fee submissions

• A natural collaborator with excellent client-facing skills

• A self-motivated leader ready to take the next step in their career

Join AECOM and help create streets that work better—for people, places, and the planet.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Relevant degree
• Chartered or working towards Chartered status
• Membership of a relevant 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 [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!

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 $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.