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Water Design Manager

Aecom 🇬🇧 Croydon, England, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead technical design delivery for blue-green infrastructure, drainage, and flood risk projects across feasibility, outline, and detailed design stages, ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, safety, and quality requirements. Manage project scope, programme, budget, client and stakeholder communications, review team outputs, resolve design issues, and mentor junior colleagues.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design delivery for blue-green infrastructure, drainage, and flood risk projects across feasibility, outline, and detailed design stages, ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, safety, and quality requirements. Manage project scope, programme, budget, client and stakeholder communications, review team outputs, resolve design issues, and mentor junior colleagues.

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering is required, along with chartered or incorporated status, or progress toward it, through a relevant institution such as ICE or CIWEM. Candidates should have experience leading sustainable drainage or nature-based solution design, delivering flood risk or drainage schemes, and leading project teams while mentoring junior staff.

Benefits

  • Career Development Opportunities
  • Technical Practice Networks
  • AECOM University
  • Volunteering Days
  • Flexible Hybrid Working

Key Skills

Civil Engineering Blue‑green Infrastructure Design Sustainable Drainage Design Flood Risk Assessment Regulatory Compliance Project Scope Management Programme Management Budget Management Stakeholder Communication Design Review Mentoring Junior Engineers AutoCAD GIS Hydraulic Modelling Risk Management Quality Assurance Leadership Problem Solving Collaboration with Multidisciplinary Teams Technical Documentation Environmental Impact Assessment Design Standards

About Aecom

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients’ complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2024. Learn more at aecom.com.

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