Senior Civil Design Engineer

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.  

At AECOM, we are recruiting a Senior Civil Design Engineer to join us in our Dublin office.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities:

The Senior Civil Design Engineer will lead the Civil Assurance function across the Infrastructure Department portfolio, providing expert technical advice, assurance, compliance oversight, approvals, and due diligence for all civil engineering assets. The role will have a particular focus on airfield civil infrastructure, ensuring that projects meet defined requirements and are functional, efficient, and safe.

The role will also be responsible for developing and implementing a Technical Assurance Framework for civil infrastructure across the portfolio. This includes coordinating with the technical team to review designs produced by Framework Design Consultants and Contractors, ensuring technical acceptability, compliance with relevant standards, and constructability.

The Senior Civil Design Engineer will ensure that infrastructure projects comply with the required technical design standards, legislative requirements, and Employer Requirements (ER) throughout the design and delivery process.

Programme Requirements, Standards & Performance

• Ensure designs and contract documentation are delivered in line with programme timelines, quality standards, and cost objectives set by the Contracting Entity, while complying with best-in-class governance and control procedures within the programme/project execution framework.

• Undertake technical assurance and due diligence reviews at key governance stage gates.

• Assess civil engineering requirements across programme projects to ensure feasibility and alignment with the Contracting Entity’s objectives.

• Ensure Employer Requirements (ER) reflect client needs, programme objectives, and defined performance specifications.

• Work closely with programme teams to ensure contractor compliance with approved civil designs during construction phases.

Technical Guidance

• Oversee civil engineering inputs across programmes, ensuring infrastructure and facility designs comply with relevant codes of practice, ICAO/EASA standards, and international best practice.

• Evaluate project lifecycle costs as part of the design management process in collaboration with Commercial and Contract Management teams.

• Contribute to value engineering and cost optimisation initiatives.

• Implement and maintain robust quality management systems for civil engineering design processes.

• Audit technical processes and procedures relating to civil engineering across the Infrastructure team.

• Ensure audit and inspection findings are clearly documented and reported to enable timely and targeted corrective actions.

• Support the development of a high-performance culture within the civil engineering team.

• Contribute to the development of quality standards for testing, inspections, and technical evaluations.

• Ensure civil design solutions respond fully to user requirements and client briefs, while meeting planning, regulatory, and statutory requirements, including ICAO/EASA standards and relevant airport construction directives.

• Benchmark against leading UK and European airports to adopt and implement industry best practices.

• Ensure works are designed and phased to minimise operational disruption while maintaining constructability and cost efficiency.

Design Assurance & Procurement Support

• Provide oversight and guidance to the civils team in:

  • Reviewing external design packages to ensure completeness and technical suitability.

  • Reviewing consultants’ work and contractor submissions across assigned projects.

  • Preparing tender documentation for the procurement of external consultants.

  • Supporting the procurement of civil design services and contractor packages.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our primary infrastructure markets along with having the following qualfications and experience.

• 15+ years’ professional experience, including at least 10 years in design management, with a proven track record of leading technical assurance activities throughout the programme lifecycle to completion on high-value airport or aviation infrastructure projects.

• Extensive design and technical assurance experience in airfield civil infrastructure.

• Demonstrated leadership and management capability, including experience in design management, technical assurance, and change management.

• Experience in programme planning, governance, and delivery, including leading design teams, setting objectives and priorities, and establishing clear roles and responsibilities for team members.

• Proven ability to drive best practice in technical processes, standards, and policies across projects and programmes.

• In-depth understanding of the design and delivery of technically complex projects within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sectors.

• Strong stakeholder management experience, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all organisational levels to improve processes, guidance, and project delivery outcomes.

• Knowledge of quality management systems and process improvement practices, ideally within the construction sector.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan. 

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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