Acoustics Consultant

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.**

**Job Description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Acoustic Consultant to join the AECOM Acoustics team in Cambridge, working with and supporting senior colleagues on a wide range of acoustics projects. Whilst our preference would be Cambridge, other offices throughout UK and Ireland may also be considered.

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, which provides 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 over 50 acousticians working across eight offices throughout the UK.

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 Battersea Power Station, Houses of Parliament, HMRC, BBC, Guys and St Thomas’s, HS2, Defra, EDF, Thames Water, Highways England, and Shell.

**Qualifications**:
The appropriate level of expertise is required in order that the Job / Project Accountabilities listed below can be carried out to the necessary standard:

- The individual would have excellent technical, project management, presentation, report writing, commercial, personal organisation and communication skills.
- They would be expected to undertake, oversee and technically review noise modelling using software such as CATT, Insul, EASE, SketchUp and CadnaA.
- They would also be expected to 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 role will be involve collaborative working with the full team of over 40 acoustics consultants based in offices throughout the UK. There will be the need to visit sites and meetings across the UK and work away from home for short periods, potentially including overseas.

Additional Information
**Your benefits will include**:
Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join AECOM, as well as receiving a competitive salary, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements. Core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, company pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and one paid annual professional institution membership fee. You can also choose from a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

You’ll also be able to give back to communities with up to two paid CSR days each year. Through our charity, The AECOM Foundation, you can volunteer to support children in developing countries. And if you’re a member of the Reserve Forces you’ll receive an additional 15 days paid leave for training commitments.

**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