Blast Technical Lead

🔥 3 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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AECOM

10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm that partners with clients to deliver innovative solutions to the most complex challenges while creating legacies for generations to come. Focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion, AECOM leverages technical expertise and digital innovation to drive transformative outcomes in infrastructure development, sustainability, and social systems. The company provides a wide range of services, including architecture & design, construction management, engineering, and environmental services across various markets such as transportation, energy, healthcare, and national governments. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, technical excellence, and community impact, AECOM is committed to building a better world.

📋 Description

• Provide expert technical input on blast and protection engineering • Lead blast protection design, including CFD modelling of effects on building structures and complex structural analysis • Oversee production and workload management for blast-related projects • Develop work plans, define tasks, and ensure quality management and technical assurance • Work with clients to understand business practices and goals, identify challenges, and formulate solutions • Engage with sector leads and general Building Engineering teams • Contribute to business development, sales, and work winning • Assess threats, likelihood, consequences, risk severity, and appropriate treatments • Produce employer’s requirements, specifications, feasibility studies, and concept/scheme designs • Manage client projects, including progress reporting and contract administration where applicable • Promote best practices in Safety, Health & Environment and contribute to team knowledge management • Gather data and technical information • Complete design reviews and detailed designs • Manage tenders and vetting • Deliver presentations and sales support • Collaborate with Security and Structural teams across office fit-outs, mixed-use developments, industrial facilities, and critical government and commercial projects

🎯 Requirements

• Broad technical knowledge of security with in-depth expertise in blast analysis and design • Proven ability to determine operational and strategic requirements as a basis of design • Expertise in blast modelling and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) • Proficiency with ANSYS, AutoDyn, or similar software for advanced 3D finite element modelling and fluid-structure interaction • Strong understanding of physical security solutions, including doors, locks, walls, fencing, and glazing, and relevant performance standards • Experience in threat reduction, structural vulnerability analyses, façade and glass evaluation, collision and high-speed impact analysis, and the effect of fire on structures • Excellent document writing skills and meticulous attention to detail • Solid project management capabilities • Strong technical and design skills in structural design and security assessment • Good numerical and analytical abilities • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders, architects, and contractors • Tact, persuasive ability, and collaborative team spirit • Proficient IT skills and self-motivation • Ability to hold or obtain Security Clearance • Relevant qualification in a security or engineering-related discipline (preferred) • Professional certifications such as RSES, CSyP, PSP, MSyl (preferred) • Experience using AutoCAD and Revit (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Career development opportunities • Flexible hybrid working model • Technical practice networks • AECOM University • Volunteering days • Compensation, benefits and well-being programs • Industry-leading technology and transformational work • Work flexibility • Disability Confident Employer interview scheme for eligible applicants

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