Technical Leader - Hydraulic Structures (20 hours a week)
The Technical Leader – Hydraulic Structures will provide global technical leadership in hydraulic engineering and serve as a senior advisor on complex water infrastructure projects.
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We’re looking for a Senior/Principal Process Engineer to join our Water Solutions team in London, St Albans, Croydon or Basingstoke. You'll play a key role in delivering Southern Water’s £4.8bn investment programme, supporting a range of water and wastewater projects from concept through to delivery.
Working across long-term frameworks, you'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop sustainable, innovative solutions that improve communities and the environment. Flexible working is available across Southern UK locations, with occasional travel to client sites.
Key Responsibilities
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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 ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
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