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Water Design Manager

Aecom 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead technical design delivery for water, drainage, and flood risk projects across feasibility, outline, and detailed design, ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, safety, and quality requirements. Manage project delivery, budgets, programmes, client and stakeholder relationships, design reviews, and the mentoring and development of colleagues.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design delivery for water, drainage, and flood risk projects across feasibility, outline, and detailed design, ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, safety, and quality requirements. Manage project delivery, budgets, programmes, client and stakeholder relationships, design reviews, and the mentoring and development of colleagues.

Requirements

  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering is required, along with chartered or incorporated status—or progress toward it—with a relevant institution such as ICE or CIWEM. Candidates should have experience leading sustainable drainage or nature-based solutions work, designing 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 Water Design Drainage Design Flood Risk Management Regulatory Compliance Project Delivery Management Budget and Programme Control Client Relationship Management Stakeholder Engagement Design Review Processes Mentoring and Staff Development AutoCAD Hydraulic Modelling GIS Risk Management Quality Assurance Leadership Collaboration with Multidisciplinary Teams Technical Documentation Environmental Sustainability

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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