Senior Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure

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At AECOM we are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure join us at our Dublin office.

This role is primarily site-based, with attendance on site required four days per week and one day per week available for remote working.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure with 15+ years' experience delivering major civil infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle. Working within a multidisciplinary consultancy environment, you will provide strategic leadership, oversee multidisciplinary project teams, and lead the successful delivery of high-profile developments from project inception through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out.

In this role, you will play a key leadership role in delivering a major, multi-year capital investment programme transforming a nationally significant infrastructure asset.

We encourage applications from candidates with:

• Extensive experience working with the NEC Suite of Contracts in a client, contractor, or consultancy environment.
• Proven experience delivering projects within the aviation sector or other operationally complex, live infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated success delivering major capital infrastructure programmes with responsibility for cost, schedule, risk, governance, and stakeholder management.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring Project Managers.
• Strong client-facing, commercial, and leadership skills with experience managing senior stakeholder relationships.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Programme Requirements, Standards & Performance

• Oversee and monitor project delivery, ensuring effective management of schedule, interfaces, costs, variations, contracts, and risks, while coordinating with relevant stakeholders and functions as required.
• Develop and maintain the Project Execution Plan, ensuring alignment with the Contracting Entity’s standards, methodologies, and strategic objectives.
• Manage and maintain the project relationship with the Airport Transformation Manager and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with agreed performance, quality, safety, and governance requirements.

  Team Management

• Lead and manage a team of Project Managers responsible for the successful delivery of individual projects within the programme.
• Provide direction, oversight, and support to ensure appropriate project management processes, controls, and performance measures are implemented and maintained.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive resource plans to support the effective delivery of all projects under the Senior Project Manager’s remit.
• Provide technical, commercial, and contractual guidance to Project Managers in the execution of their responsibilities.
• Monitor, review, and report on project and team performance, identifying risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with the Programme Director and wider programme team to resolve challenges and ensure successful project outcomes.

  Project Management Activities

• Lead the overall coordination and integration of projects, ensuring interfaces and dependencies are identified and managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain and manage the Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) matrix and associated governance frameworks.
• Coordinate and oversee the activities of design consultants, technical teams, contractors, and other external service providers.
• Chair and facilitate design review meetings, ensuring timely design approvals and communication of design acceptance to contractors.
• Manage the communication and implementation of design changes, ensuring all affected stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Prepare and deliver regular project performance reports covering progress, key milestones, risks, issues, and construction activities.
• Maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are actively managed, reviewed, and reported through regular progress meetings.
• Drive continuous improvement in project management processes, procedures, templates, and reporting tools.
• Implement and monitor performance management and project control measures.
• Manage the project change control process and ensure appropriate governance and approvals are maintained.
• Oversee the effective flow of information between the project team, client, and stakeholders through structured meetings, reporting, and communications.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

As the successful candidate you will have experience working within our primary infrastructure markets along with having the following qualfications and experience.

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience within the construction and infrastructure sector, including the successful delivery of aviation and/or other major projects of comparable scale, complexity, and operational criticality.
• Demonstrated understanding of working within live operational airport environments, with a strong appreciation of the associated safety, operational, and stakeholder management requirements.
• Proven experience managing and overseeing project delivery on-site, with a hands-on approach to construction and infrastructure project execution.
• Extensive experience in developing, documenting, and implementing construction project management frameworks, policies, procedures, and best-practice standards.
• Strong track record of delivering major construction and asset delivery projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Experience acting in a client-side project management role, representing the interests of the contracting entity throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proven ability to engage and influence a broad range of stakeholders at all organisational levels, driving process improvements, governance enhancements, and best-practice project delivery outcomes.
• Previous experience using the NEC Suite of contracts as a client, contractor or subcontractor.
• Previous experience in an Aviation setting or similarly constrainted environment

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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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