Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
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.
Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
Are you ready to join a very experienced, growing, industry-leading Renewables team, and develop your skills on transformational work which will make a huge impact towards delivering the energy transition?
You will be responsible for undertaking a technical role on projects within our energy business; typically, our projects are associated with the generation, storage, transmission, and distribution of energy in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
You will be deployed to work on different projects, depending on their specific area of engineering expertise, and will include providing support for the following types of technologies.
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On and offshore wind
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Solar PV
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Hydroelectric – run of river and pumped storage
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Grid connection works – cable route and substation civil
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Hydrogen production and storage
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Battery energy storage systems (BESS)
Projects include all stages of design from feasibility to detailed design and site construction supervision. Our clients are a mix between large energy utility generators to private developers.
If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where you can help deliver the energy transition to uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Energy page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
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Engineering or relevant science or master’s degree.
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Experience in a position where design was a major part of the role.
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Experience in the full cycle of project design delivery from inception to detailed design.
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Chartered or working towards chartership.
If you have general engineering experience within the energy market this would be preferable, however, it is not critical and we welcome your application if you have strong passion for, and would love to work in, renewable energy.
Areas of experience you may have which would be beneficial include:
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Medium and high voltage grid connection works, including cable routing and specific experience with National Grid.
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Hydroelectric design – both run of river and pumped storage.
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Onshore wind – ideally with recent onsite experience, including projects with turbines >180m tip height.
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Offshore wind.
Additional Information
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.
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 [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
