Senior Infrastructure Project Manager - Aviation

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Project Manager to join 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 Infrastructure Project Manager with 15+ years' experience delivering major commercial, building, and 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.

What you'll do

Programme Leadership, Governance & Performance

• Provide strategic leadership across a portfolio of projects, ensuring delivery against programme objectives for scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and risk.
• Develop, implement, and maintain Project Execution Plans aligned with the Contracting Entity's governance, standards, and delivery methodologies.
• Act as the primary interface with senior client representatives, including the Airport Transformation Manager and Programme Director.
• Drive programme governance, reporting, decision-making, and performance management across multiple concurrent projects.
• Lead commercial, contractual, and risk management activities throughout the project lifecycle.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Project Managers responsible for delivering projects across the programme portfolio.
• Provide strategic direction, technical guidance, and commercial oversight to ensure consistent delivery excellence.
• Develop and oversee programme resource planning to ensure effective utilisation of project teams.
• Review and approve key project deliverables, reports, forecasts, and governance documentation.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing project culture focused on continuous improvement and client satisfaction.

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Lead the coordination of complex multidisciplinary projects and manage critical project interfaces.
• Oversee consultant, contractor, and stakeholder performance throughout design and construction.
• Chair senior project, design, and governance meetings, ensuring timely decisions and effective communication.
• Manage programme-level risk, change control, and issue resolution processes.
• Ensure effective management of design development, approvals, and construction delivery.
• Prepare and present executive-level programme reports, KPIs, and performance updates to senior stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement in project management systems, governance processes, and delivery methodologies.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

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

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

• Over 15 years of experience leading the delivery of major infrastructure and capital investment programmes, with particular expertise in large-scale civil engineering, drainage, and utility projects.
• Extensive knowledge of project and contract management, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects safely, on schedule, and within budget.
• Demonstrated success in developing, implementing, and driving high-performing project programmes that achieve strategic and operational objectives.
• Significant experience operating within complex, multi-stakeholder environments, effectively managing relationships across clients, contractors, regulatory bodies, local authorities, and community representatives.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence decision-making, build collaborative partnerships, and lead multidisciplinary teams to successful 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

Additional Information

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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.

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