Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure

Senior Project Manager – Infrastructure, Leeds

Client: AECOM

Location: Leeds, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: caa348e2b779

Job Views: 3

Posted: 22.03.2025

Expiry Date: 06.05.2025

Job Description:

AECOM is a global network of experts working with clients, communities, and colleagues to develop and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most complex challenges. From design and engineering to construction and management, AECOM\’s technical knowledge, local connections and broad market experience allow us to deliver specialised services across the entire project life cycle.

Are you a Project Management professional looking to work on projects that make a difference and enhance the world around us? If so, we are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for several key opportunities across a broad portfolio, delivering for clients in Energy, Water, Rail, Aviation, and Highways.

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our UK North Infrastructure team to work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, both nationally and locally. You will be joining a developing team of like-minded people that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead Project Management commissions, taking responsibility for their successful delivery.
• Provide effective support and mentoring to Project Managers, Graduates and Apprentices.
• Ensure commissions are managed and completed efficiently, on time and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Support and manage the project team ensuring appropriate resources are provided on projects, meeting the client and business requirements.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and members of the cross-functional team.
• Support business development opportunities with existing and new clients. Be the primary interface with AECOM clients (new and existing).
• Ensure all team members reporting to you have current and relevant training.
• Manage the delivery of project management team outputs, in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards.
• Provide full Project Management duties to AECOM clients.

Note that some of the commissions that we undertake may require full-time secondment into a client organisation.

If you\’re passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don\’t just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a co-location / secondment arrangement.
• Practitioner of NEC suite of contracts, particularly the Professional Services Contract (PSC) and Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC).
• Experience of leading integrated, multi-organisation, collaborative teams.
• Proven ability to advise clients and design teams on value, risks and programme.
• Infrastructure and project management experience.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Highly motivated with a growing industry network.
• 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.
• Able to work under own initiative where appropriate working closely with the Project Managers and Associates in the delivery of some of our projects.
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible.
• Excellent IT Skills and the ability to utilise current digital tools.
• Excellent numeracy, verbal and written communication skills.
• Willing to challenge in a positive and engaging manner.
• Understanding of a variety of project types / sizes / sectors. Water sector experience would be advantageous.

Education, Professional Qualifications Requirements:

• A minimum 7 years of proven experience in a consulting environment providing a full spectrum of PM services including chairing meetings, minuting or proactively engaging in discussions, developing the PEP, progress reports, and tender documentation. General post contract management and administration, proactively engaging with relevant stakeholders, being aware of the scope of service, ensuring delivery within the agreed parameters, and helping to resolve disputes whenever possible.
• Demonstrable experience in team leadership & management of resources, resource planning and supporting the development of less experienced resources within the team.
• A relevant degree such as in project management, engineering, environmental science, construction, or relevant subject. Alternatively, relevant experience in industry would be considered acceptable for exceptional candidates.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of NEC3 and NEC4 contract management.
• A project management qualification such as APMQ or PRINCE2 would be desirable.
• Membership of a related professional body preferably chartered (APM, CIOB) would be desirable.
• You may be required to undertake and successfully complete security screening checks.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at (emailprotected). At AECOM, we value everyone\’s unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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. Our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

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.

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.

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