Senior Project Manager

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Job Description

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for delivering the project to time, to budget and to specification, ensuring the project achieves all project goals and objectives in accordance with the Contracting Entity's employer's requirements and the corporate strategic intent for the portfolio.

Project Management Activities

• Lead the coordination of the project ensuring interfaces are considered and addressed at all stages of the project lifecycle
• Provide ad hoc support on major project management appointments, as required
• Ensure we deliver excellence and exceed the client expectations on time, budget, programme and the appropriate quality standards
• Work with the technical teams in coordinating and managing the design consultants and other external service providers
• Be responsible for communicating design changes to relevant members of the project team and stakeholders who may be impacted
• Report monthly on the tasks throughout the project's lifecycle including construction works (during the construction phase) that have been undertaken
• Maintain the overall project risk register and update at monthly progress meetings
• Identify opportunities to improve Project Management procedures, templates and products referring ideas to the appropriate line manager
• Monitor and apply performance management techniques
• Manage the change control process
• Manage the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications

NEC Specific Activities (where applicable)

• Lead and act in the spirit of mutual trust and co-operation
• Communicate and issue documents as required by the ECC and perform any other duties as stated in the contract
• Manage the compensation event process so that the Contractor is fairly compensated for any Contracting Entity- initiated change on the project
• Ensure the Contractor notifies compensation events in good time so that the Contracting Entity is not disadvantaged

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years experience in the Construction / Infrastructure sector including on relevant aviation and/or other related projects of a similar size and complexity
• Experience of working as part of integrated, multi-organisation, collaborative teams
• Infrastructure and project management experience, delivering complex projects
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Relationship building skills –ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams, and stakeholders as well as an ability to build and maintain networks of business contacts.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible
• Experience of operating on site, not just office based
• Tangible experience of documenting best practice construction project management policies and standards.
• Track record of delivering construction/asset delivery projects to time and within allocated budget;
• Experience of dealing with a range of stakeholders at all levels across the organisation influencing the improvement of process and guidance to support project delivery.

Skills

• Managing a multidisciplinary team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to govern and drive outcomes to ensure project outputs that meet required standards
• Knowledge of NEC and FIDIC suite of contracts
• Knowledge of Engineering and Project Management Principles
• Planning capability and ability to use Oracle Primavera 6 scheduling system
• Knowledge of Policies and Procedures implementation
• Ability to make decisions and demonstrate the logic in reaching those decisions where required
• Report writing skills
• Computer literacy

Additional Information

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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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at 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 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.

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.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Program & Project Management

Work Location Model: Hybrid