Our Energy Business Unit

Enabling the energy transition through innovation and sustainability.

AECOM's Energy Business Unit houses three specialised practices — nuclear, renewables, and transmission & distribution. Each practice plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy, offering innovative solutions that balance efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.

Transmission and Distribution

We have a tremendously challenging programme in front of us in the run up to achieving 2030 net zero targets. New overhead lines, underground cables, substations, battery storage and subsea links are all needed – and quickly. AECOM Transmission and Distribution is currently supporting the network development which will underpin grid modernisation. Our experts are involved at all stages of grid modernisation – and so can you be if you join us.

What your new role will entail:

This is a brand new role identified for an Associate Director to lead our Offshore Wind (OSW) team in the Transmission and Distribution team in the UK and Ireland. This is a timely appointment for an experienced client facing OSW leader to play a prominent part in further growing our OSW workload with existing and new clients, lead integrated multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver this work and build and manage your own team of OSW specialists. As this is a brand new role in the business, you have greater influence over the shaping of the role for success and the development of our OSW business plan and growth strategy, based on your experience and knowledge of the OSW market in the UK and Ireland.

Location

You can be based in any of our locations in the UK and Ireland which includes Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, and St Albans. 

We will consider hybrid-working arrangements and most of our people tend to work 2-3 days in the office/client sites and work from home the rest of the time.

The primary objective of this role is to lead the development and delivery of OSW activities.

You’ll be expected to provide technical expertise into proposals and projects and to represent the company in client meetings as appropriate.

Typical OSW activities include:

• Feasibility Studies
• Optioneering Studies
• Specification preparation
• Technical Bid Review
• Design Assurance
• Design Review
• Site and FAT visits
• OEM Support Services
• Due Diligence
• Technical expert services
• Some original design may also be involved.

You will lead and develop the OSW team and may have line management responsibility for those staff.

You will liaise with other teams internal and external to AECOM’s T&D practice including, but not limited to, the HVDC, Civils, Cable and P&C teams. You shall work closely with these teams to offer our clients a full end to end service.