Job Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.


There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.


We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.



AECOM Enterprise Capability is actively seeking a creative, self-driven, talented Associate Director- Transportation Planning to join a large, dynamic, and highly technical team of planners, modelers, engineers, and technicians. The successful candidate will lead the transportation planning group and oversee the development of diverse types of transportation planning, modelling projects. There is an opportunity to engage in pioneering projects that utilize the latest technologies to improve all forms of transportation.


The responsibilities associated with this position encompass a diverse range of tasks, including but not limited to:

• Coordinating and leading the work of project team members to deliver intelligent and robust traffic engineering, transport planning, modelling and road safety solutions to meet the needs of our clients.
• Being accountable for traffic engineering and transport planning, modelling delivery and verification on a range of transport projects
• Mentor, guide teams to achieve technical requirements and deliver the projects.
• Good hands-on experience of Strategic, operational modelling software's viz, Saturn, Vissim, Visum, SYNCHRO, Sydra and other relevant software's
• Develop, nurture, and grow the delivery capacity and capability across to ensure adequate resourcing and timely delivery of pipeline of opportunities.
• Handling teams for performance and encouraging the teams to take up the works and motivate to deliver for exceptional outcomes.
• Involve in recruiting resources for the regional requirements, aligning and training the resources for technical requirements.
• Be a people leader and supporting and mentoring to develop the skills.
• Develop and evaluate alternative conceptual designs; consolidate project alternatives and recommendations from stakeholder inputs.
• Collaborate with Management in the development and execution of significant project pursuits and delivery.
• Establish relationships with external and internal clients, industry associations, potential consultant team members.
• Look for business opportunities and align the team towards the requirements to develop and grow in a sustainable way.
• Participates in development of technical proposals for various regions and influence EC in all opportunities.
• Set quality procedures for each of the project and performs quality control reviews of work developed by others and creating a quality team.
• Hands on experience and exposure to international standards and guidelines to manage various reginal projects and guiding the teams
• Work towards adding new skills, develop the new portfolio of projects, diversify the skills and resources to manage the teams utilisation
• Involve in development of business with new regions, strengthen the relations and maintain the key stakeholders of regional leads and Project Manager's
• Attend regular calls with key stakeholder's and participate in regional opportunities/ proposals/projects pro-actively to enhance skills and broaden the business.



Qualifications

We are looking for a highly self-motivated and ambitious professional who can draw upon their extensive experience to deliver technical excellence across a variety of transportation projects. The successful applicant must have an in-depth understanding of traffic engineering, transport planning, modelling and road safety. In this key strategic senior role, you will bring:

• Master of Engineering (or equivalent education) in a Transportation Engineering discipline from an accredited college or university or Bachelor's in Civil Engineering with relevant experience in Transportation planning/modelling.
• Overall 13 years -14+ years of work experience is preferred.
• Prior experience of working in Global Design consultancy and leading Transport Planning teams in a global design consultancy firm is preferred.
• Experience in working in international projects of UK&I, ME, USA, ANZ and others.
• Hands on experience of modelling software's of strategic, operational modelling.



Additional Information

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.



As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.


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