South Island Transport Advisory Team Lead

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

**Job Description**:
Our Civil Infrastructure Business is looking for a highly driven leader at Associate Director/ Principal level to lead our Transport Advisory business based in Christchurch. The role will have a strong focus on setting and driving the strategy for the business, driving business growth and nurturing our upcoming talent within the Transport Planning/Traffic Engineering business.

The successful incumbent will be the driving force behind several major projects whilst enhancing our capability throughout the local market.

You will be utilising your considerable experience within the transportation sector, supporting relationships with existing clients and actively seeking new business opportunities to develop the AECOM brand.

You will have business case writing skills and be the front face for business case development with our clients.

You will mentor planners, engineers and modellers to assist them in developing technical solutions to clients' problems through high-quality project delivery.

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Leadership of business and strategic planning activities in order to identify opportunities to sustain the growth of the business in short, medium and longer-term
- Business Case lead/ writer
- Develop and retain a high level of technical skill
- Develop and maintain relationships with external parties to ensure maximum benefit is achieved for AECOM from these relationships.
- Provide high-quality technical advice to clients that meet their needs
- Project management activities will include seeking opportunities from clients, submitting proposals and technical leadership for transport advisory projects.

**Qualifications**:
**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:

- A strong leader who is passionate about inspiring and growing people
- Consulting experience with extensive business case experience
- Good technical skills, knowledge, and experience in transport planning and transport/ traffic modelling and traffic engineering
- Experience in delivery of planning studies for regions/corridors.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Undergraduate degree in a related discipline is essential; Postgraduate qualifications are desirable as are other relevant professional training courses

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM 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.

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.

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