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Senior Pavement Engineer
Job Description: Senior Engineer – Pavement Engineering & Construction Materials
Company Description
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether it's improving transportation networks, ensuring reliable energy infrastructure, providing clean water access, or shaping sustainable skylines, our global team of planners, designers, engineers, scientists, and innovators tackles the world’s most complex challenges. With accelerating investment in infrastructure today, AECOM partners with clients to create legacies for future generations.
Join a 50,000-strong global team where bold ideas and professional expertise drive meaningful impact. We welcome your vision—let’s build a better world together.
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We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join our pavement engineering and construction materials team, working across airports, ports, highways, and transport infrastructure.
This role is for engineers with established professional experience, ready to take technical ownership and responsibility within a multidisciplinary environment. Erudite contributors in pavement engineering, construction materials, and related fields—whether as strong generalists (across multiple service areas) or specialists (e.g., airport pavements, design for ports, materials innovation)—are welcome, so long as they demonstrate the requisite level of technical authority.
#### Your Role: key responsibilities
- Lead technical tasks or small work packages within larger projects, operating with limited supervision.
- Deliver pavement design, evaluation, back-analysis, and materials assessments independently.
- Interpret standards, specifications, and client guidance, forming technical conclusions before consulting peers as appropriate.
- Review, validation, and quality-check work produced by Engineers and Senior Engineers across a project.
- Contribute to scope definition, fee estimation, and resource discussions through technical input.
- Support site-based activities, including leading site inspections and resolving technical challenges.
- Apply engineering judgement when faced with ambiguous technical constraints or portfolio pressures.
- Drive improvements to technical tools, workflows, and data consistency across projects and teams.
#### Growth & Development at AECOM
Benefit from:
- Career development via AECOM University, technical networks, and professional volunteering initiatives.
- Structured mentorship and technical support from senior staff, fostering confidence and expertise.
- Exposure to diverse projects and sectors, broadening technical adaptability.
- Chartered status support, including chartered engineering and technician pathways.
- A supportive technical culture, where specialisation and generalist growth are both encouraged.
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#### What We Offer
- Flexible hybrid working – balance a fixed-base office, client sites, or remote work as needed.
- Personalised benefits, rooted in diverse lifestyles and priorities.
- Charity and community engagement (Fundraising, STEM programs, local volunteering).
- Wellbeing programs (Workshop sessions, yoga, mental health initiatives).
- Sports and social clubs (Hiking, five-a-side football, cycle challenges).
- Four future celebrations launches (summer festivals, holiday socials, awards recognition).
- Three appealing work location models for flexibility: office-based, hybrid, or fully remote.
Requirements: Who We’re Looking For
Minimum Qualifications
- A recognized engineering degree or degree-equivalent technical qualification, with progress towards oficialeship/professional registration or a credited commitment to chartership.
- Established professional experience demonstrating autonomy and senior-level technical capability.
Reference Standards
- Demonstrated ability to act as a self-sufficient senior engineer in a multi-disciplinary context, combining reliability with progressive acclaim.
- A proven record of experience in pavement engineering or construction materials, covering topics like asphalt mixtures, concrete linings, hydraulically-bound materials, and geotechnical investigations. Preference is given to experience across:
- Airport pavement design and validation.
- Construction materials for coastal and port engineering.
- Highway infrastructure (elevated motorways, interchanges, and high resilience design).
- Related transport infrastructure (road transition surfaces, discouragement barriers, or other critical foundational components).
- Success strategies in solving low-cost, high-impact technical problems, aligning with firm projects.
- Comfortability participating in technical conversations with stakeholders, integrating societal needs alongside technical rigor.
AECOM's Commitments
- We embrace diverse talent, including neurodiverse perspectives, and foster an inclusive working environment.
- We value all backgrounds and experiences, and applicants with transferable skills are encouraged. Attainments can include life experiences.
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Reasonable Requests for Accommodation All applicants with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the substantive specification and would benefit from accommodation may contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com for support during the application process.
How to Apply
For more information on our culture, opportunities and employees: Follow @AECOM on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for a closer look at projects, stories, and employee voices.
Questions? Contact Siobhan Osborne via LinkedIn.
ReqID: J10147166
Business & Sparing Details
- Strategic Business Unit: Transportation (DCS.)
- Specified Group: Europe & India.
- Operational Area/Function: Engineering.
- Work-Type Preference: Hybrid.
About AECOM
At AECOM—the Trusted Infrastructure Consulting Firm—we activate change across complexities at scale. From advisory, prediction, founding, integrating, and implementing, we provide a comprehensive portfolio of integrated solutions to build a better future.
We are a mission-driven organization, bridging infrastructure, equity, and ESG sustainability across civil, construction technologies, buildings, water, financial resources, and novel energy futures. In fiscal year 2025, AECOM’s Professional Services reported revenues exceeding $16.1 billion.
Discover our impact and join us today at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
We champion an environment where your integrity, insights, and strong professional brand can thrive. Prepare to unlock solutions, foster a collaborative culture, and grow with welcoming community in a forward-thinking, responsible work ethos.
- Flexible Structures: Access hybrid roles, ideal for work that aligns with your lifestyle.
- Market-Leading Rewards: A range of compensation options tailored to performance and ambition.
- Technological Edge: Gain access to industry-leading tools and insights that shape the future.
AECOM is an equal opportunity employer, proud to embrace each person’s potential. We help you reach yours.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria.
Join us, and shape the future side-by-side with a leadership team always looking to improve. Together, we build the world. 🌍
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