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As our business continues to grow, we are seeking an experienced and collaborative Discipline Director for Technical Delivery to lead the technical delivery, resourcing, and operational effectiveness of our ASSIST team.

This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for ensuring the successful delivery of complex projects, developing our technical capability, and driving excellence across our survey and site investigation services. Working closely with discipline leads, project teams, and business leaders, you will play a critical role in maintaining technical quality, supporting growth, engaging with our clients and developing our people.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

• Champion AECOM's safety-first culture across all technical disciplines.
• Ensure appropriate safety training plans are developed and maintained for all team members.
• Promote safe working practices and continuous improvement in health and safety performance.

Project & Technical Delivery

• Lead the resourcing and technical delivery of multidisciplinary projects across the ASSIST business.
• Be the primary escalation point for resourcing challenges and delivery/ quality issues associated with the technical survey and investigation disciplines.
• Ensure technical quality standards are achieved across all disciplines.
• Undertake Lead Verifier responsibilities where appropriate.
• Resolve resource conflicts and capacity constraints, escalating where necessary to senior leadership teams.

Work Winning & Client Engagement

• Support the successful delivery of multidisciplinary bids and proposals.
• Coordinate and appoint technical staff to support bid development activities.
• Review technical solutions, cost build-ups, and bid submissions to ensure quality and competitiveness.
• Support and drive internal and external client engagement activities to strengthen relationships and grow opportunities.

People Leadership & Capability Development

• Develop and implement resource strategies, including recruitment, use of enterprise capabilities, and subcontractor engagement.
• Lead workforce planning to ensure the right skills and capacity are available to support business demands, manage and maintain training needs and qualifications.
• Ensure career development pathways and training plans are established and maintained across all disciplines.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence.

Operational Excellence

• Lead the development of business cases for new equipment, technology, and digital investments.
• Drive adoption of enterprise capability resources and innovative delivery approaches.
• Monitor team capacity and work load, identifying risks and opportunities  for workshare and report them to the ASSIST Director.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, quality, and client outcomes.

About You

We're looking for a proven technical leader who combines strong operational management skills with a passion for developing people and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Significant experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams within survey and investigation disciplines, or related sectors.
• Demonstrable experience managing project delivery, technical quality, and resource planning.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaborative leadership skills.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, and business growth activities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and resolve resource challenges across multiple projects.

Desirable

• Firsthand experience in survey and site investigation delivery.
• Familiarity with digital innovation, technology investment, and operational improvement programmes.

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At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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