Senior Project Manager

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At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to join our Dublin office.

The Senior Project Manager will serve as the Contracting Entity’s representative, with overall responsibility for managing a portfolio of projects from initial planning and design through to successful completion and commissioning. The role is accountable for ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with the required specifications. The Senior Project Manager will ensure that all project goals and objectives are achieved in line with the Contracting Entity’s employer requirements and the wider corporate strategic objectives for the portfolio.

You will operate within a live, highly regulated airport environment, leading multidisciplinary teams and managing critical stakeholder relationships to ensure successful programme outcomes.

The Senior Project Manager  will be required to attend site four days per week and one day per week will be remote working.

Here’s what you’ll do

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Programme Requirements, Standards & Performance

• Oversee and monitor project delivery across all key areas including schedule, interfaces, cost, variations, contracts, and risk, coordinating with relevant team members and functional stakeholders as required.
• Develop and maintain the Project Execution Plan, ensuring the project is aligned with and delivered in accordance with the Contracting Entity’s standards, governance, and delivery methodologies.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with the Airport Transformation Manager, ensuring clear communication, collaboration, and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

Team Management

• Lead and manage a team of Project Managers, each responsible for the successful delivery of one or more projects within the programme portfolio.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the Project Managers, ensuring appropriate project management methodologies, controls, and performance measures are implemented to achieve delivery against cost, schedule, quality, and safety objectives.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor detailed resource plans to support the effective delivery of projects under the Senior Project Manager’s responsibility.
• Provide technical, commercial, and contractual guidance to Project Managers in the execution of their day-to-day responsibilities.
• Be accountable for the preparation and presentation of performance reports across all projects within the assigned portfolio.
• Collaborate closely with the Programme Director to identify, escalate, and resolve issues arising during project delivery.

Project Management Activities

• Lead the overall coordination of projects, ensuring all interfaces are identified, managed, and addressed throughout each stage of the project lifecycle.
• Maintain and manage the Responsible / Accountable / Consulted / Informed (RACI) task tracker to ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities.
• Coordinate with technical teams in the management of design consultants and other external service providers to ensure delivery requirements are achieved.
• Organise and chair design review meetings, and communicate formal design acceptance to the Contractor as appropriate.
• Ensure all relevant project team members and stakeholders are informed of design changes and potential impacts on project delivery.
• Prepare and issue monthly reports detailing project activities and progress throughout the lifecycle, including construction activities during the delivery phase.
• Maintain and regularly update the overall project risk register, ensuring risks are reviewed and discussed at monthly progress meetings.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in project management procedures, templates, and delivery practices, escalating recommendations to the appropriate line manager.
• Monitor project performance and apply appropriate performance management techniques to support successful project outcomes.
• Manage the project change control process, ensuring all changes are properly assessed, approved, documented, and communicated.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team and the client through regular meetings, reporting, and formal written communications.

NEC Specific Activities

• Review, assess, and formally accept programme submissions in accordance with NEC contract requirements.
• Lead project delivery activities in the spirit of mutual trust and co-operation, fostering collaborative working relationships across all parties.
• Issue communications and contractual documentation as required under the Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC), and perform all additional duties and obligations defined within the contract.
• Carry out the duties as the Project Manager as required by the Contracting Entity’s contract for the Programme, maintaining close contact with the Client in order to ensure the Project Manager’s actions reflect the Contracting Entity’s objectives for the project
• 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

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We are seeking a highly experienced professional with a strong background in our primary infrastructure markets, including aviation.

As the successful candidate, you will bring the following qualifications and experience:

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience within the construction and infrastructure sector, including involvement in aviation and/or other comparable projects of similar scale and complexity.
• Strong understanding of working within a live airport operational environment, with due consideration for operational, safety, and stakeholder requirements.
• Demonstrated site-based project delivery experience, with a practical understanding of on-site construction management activities in addition to office-based responsibilities.
• Proven experience in developing and documenting construction project management best practices, policies, procedures, and delivery standards.
• Established track record of successfully delivering construction and asset delivery projects on schedule and within approved budget parameters.
• Experience acting in the role of a client-side Project Manager, managing delivery on behalf of the contracting or asset-owning organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management capability, with experience engaging and influencing stakeholders at all organisational levels to support process improvement and effective project delivery.
• Managing a significant multidisciplinary team across multiple concurrent projects
• 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

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

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.

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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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