Senior Acoustics Consultant

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

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.

**Job Description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Consultant to join the AECOM Acoustics team, working on acoustics projects, and supporting junior staff.

You will contribute to a wide range of sound, noise, and vibration projects, with a focus on environmental acoustics, but ability to contribute to building acoustics projects is also desirable.

We have an enviable project portfolio across all market sectors, providing a wide range of career development opportunities. We advise clients on building, environmental and occupational acoustics, noise mapping, vibration, industrial noise control, audio-visual design and auralisation. A member of the Association of Noise Consultants and Sponsor of the Institute of Acoustics, AECOM Acoustics has a team of 50 acousticians working across the UK.

AECOM is one of the largest acoustics practices in the world with offices across Europe, Australia, America, Canada, the Middle East and East Asia. Acoustics is part of AECOM’s Environment and Sustainability business which provides environmental management services for feasibility, impact analysis and operational compliance as well as remediation, restoration and re-use of impacted property.

As a member of our Acoustics team you can expect to work on a wide range of interesting and challenging projects including some of the biggest projects in the UK. Recent and current clients include HS2, Balfour Beatty Vinci, SSE, INEOS, Battersea Power Station, Houses of Parliament, HMRC, BBC, Guys and St Thomas’s, DEFRA, National Highways, and Shell.

**Responsibilities**:
We are looking for someone who
- has excellent technical, project management, presentation, report writing, commercial, personal organisation and communication skills.
- can write reports and undertake EIAs/prepare ES Noise and Vibration chapters for a range of projects, and be conversant with relevant legislation, policy, standards, and guidance across different regions of the UK and Ireland.
- can build and maintain relationships with both internal and external clients; write proposals, lead the acoustic input to projects, manage the technical and financial aspect of projects and manage, mentor and teach junior staff.
- will undertake, oversee and technically review acoustic modelling using software such as CadnaA, CATT, Insul, EASE, and SketchUp.
- can undertake a range of site measurements and testing, data analysis, predictions and write and technically review reports on a range of projects. Experience of displaying and manipulating datasets in GIS software would also be beneficial.

The position will preferably be based at either our Edinburgh or Glasgow office, although there are opportunities at locations across the UK and Ireland. The role will involve collaborative working with the wider team of acoustics consultants based in the UK&I

Additional Information

**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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.


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