Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to shape the future of water infrastructure?

We’re looking for an Associate Director, MEICA (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation) Lead to join our growing Water Team in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, or Galway. In this role, you’ll support the delivery of Uisce Éireann's €10.3bn investment in infrastructure and assets and €6.6bn in operating costs.

You will work on projects ranging from small rural sites to multi-million-pound schemes, covering both water and wastewater (Infrastructure and Non-Infrastructure), being delivered under the CRU’s fourth regulatory control (RC4) period 2025-2029. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute major frameworks, programmes, and projects as part of this investment including:

Uisce Éireann Growth & Development Programme: Supporting our Tier 1 Contractor on a national programme of targeted investment to increase the capacity of water and wastewater infrastructure to enable social and economic growth and development, including the delivery of essential housing.
Uisce Éireann Engineering Services Provider Framework: Delivering on Uisce Éireann’s 19-062 framework objectives by providing comprehensive engineering design services spanning project planning and appraisal, network and process modelling, and the detailed design of water and wastewater treatment plants, networks, and associated infrastructure to support the successful delivery of capital investment programmes.

As part of our thriving business, you’ll take on rewarding multi-disciplinary projects from inception to delivery, creating innovative solutions that enhance the environment and improve communities. By joining AECOM, you’ll be provided with a comprehensive benefit package, including competitive pay, highly rated healthcare, a company pension, car allowance and so much more!

Here's what you'll do:

Expertise: Lead the development and integration of all MEICA design elements from concept through detailed design, ensuring they are fully coordinated with civil and process engineering deliverables and aligned with client performance specifications, regulatory standards, and operational requirements.
Lead: Forecast technical knowledge and resource needs to support bids and work winning. Contribute to business development by preparing proposals, scopes of work, and fee estimates. Provide strategic input on innovation, sustainability, and energy efficiency solutions in MEICA design.
Quality: Monitor and manage project delivery in line within the agreed scope, time, cost and quality parameters. Ensure compliance and best practice with all company procedures, particularly those associated with quality, risk, financial management and AECOM core values.
Safeguard: Promote and ensure compliance with regard to worker, workplace and project health & safety and ensure that staff are competent to carry out their duties safely.
Grow: Lead and build geographically diverse MEICA teams, including recruitment identification and involvement in the hiring process, leading to line management where applicable. Lead initiatives which are directed towards maximising staff development, morale, performance and quality in conjunction with the Regional Operational Leads and the MEICA Technical Head.

As well as providing innovative and industry leading MEICA solutions to Clients, the team also collaborates with a wide variety of disciplines from other offices in delivering projects, including a close working relationship with our Enterprise Capabilities centres in India, South Africa and Romania.

AECOM’s digital strategy is driving the adoption of global digital solutions internally in our design process, to improve quality and consistency and streamline activities. You will help shape these digital offerings and use them on projects, including BIM, Projectwise, intelligent P&ID’s and AECOM’s own tools developed in-house, such as our pumping station generator.

Come grow with us.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier engineers and consultants to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. Here, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Bachelor’s Degree (NFQ Level 8) in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
Hold professional qualification such as Incorporated or Chartered Engineer with relevant professional institution.
Extensive water and wastewater industry experience, including process safety familiarity.
Can manage all stages of multi-disciplinary projects, from proposals through to outline/detailed design management, and construction support until handover to Client.
Excellent communication skills and able to represent AECOM with Clients.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, and 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.

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn – Katie Scales.

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.

Associate Director - Water MEICA Lead

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