Associate: Project Manager

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At AECOM, we're recruiting for an Associate: Project Manager to join our growing Project Management team in Cork.

About the Role

AECOM is looking for an experienced and motivated Associate: Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of complex healthcare and education projects across Cork and the wider Munster region.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced project management professional with a strong track record of delivering complex capital projects, ideally within the public sector. As an Associate: Project Manager, you will take a leadership role in managing projects throughout their lifecycle, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing key client relationships, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on programme, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and governance.

The role will involve working closely with public sector clients, design teams, contractors, consultants, and statutory authorities to deliver high-quality healthcare facilities and education buildings that provide long-term value to clients and communities.

In addition to project delivery, you will contribute to the continued growth and development of AECOM's Project Management business, supporting client development, business opportunities, team development, and the delivery of best-practice project management services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of healthcare and education projects through all stages of the project lifecycle, from business case, planning, and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Take overall responsibility for the effective management and coordination of assigned projects, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, programme, budget, quality, and risk objectives.
• Act as a senior point of contact for clients, developing trusted and long-term relationships with public sector organisations, senior stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and statutory authorities.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, promoting effective collaboration across project management, cost management, design, engineering, and specialist consultancy disciplines.
• Develop, implement, and maintain project execution plans, delivery programmes, budgets, procurement strategies, risk registers, governance frameworks, and reporting arrangements.
• Provide strong project governance and leadership, ensuring key risks, issues, decisions, and opportunities are identified, communicated, and proactively managed.
• Monitor and report on project performance, taking appropriate corrective action to manage programme, cost, scope, quality, risk, and stakeholder requirements.
• Lead and support procurement activities in accordance with Irish public procurement legislation, client requirements, and relevant forms of contract.
• Coordinate design teams, contractors, consultants, and other project stakeholders to ensure effective project delivery and timely resolution of issues.
• Prepare and present clear and concise project reports, progress updates, dashboards, and recommendations to clients and senior management.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation, environmental requirements, quality management systems, and AECOM governance standards.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and support to project managers and junior team members, contributing to the development of a high-performing and collaborative project management team.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management processes, procedures, and best practice across the wider AECOM business.
• Support business development and client relationship activities, including opportunity identification, proposals, tenders, and the development of new and existing client relationships.
• Contribute to the growth and development of AECOM's Project Management business across the healthcare, education, and wider public sector markets.

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

As the successful candidate, you will have proven experience managing the delivery of complex construction projects and will possess the following qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Degree qualification in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Professional membership of a recognised institution, such as Chartered Engineer, Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Builder, or equivalent.
• Significant experience in project management and the delivery of complex capital projects, preferably within a construction consultancy environment.
• Proven experience delivering healthcare, hospital, education, or other public sector building projects from inception through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, programme management, procurement, contract administration, cost management, and risk management.
• Demonstrable experience coordinating and managing multidisciplinary project teams, consultants, contractors, and other key stakeholders.
• Experience working with public sector clients and an understanding of the requirements associated with public procurement and project governance.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to monitor project costs, budgets, programme performance, and overall project delivery.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• A proactive and collaborative approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive projects forward in a complex and demanding environment.

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.

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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 $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.

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