Infrastructure Project Manager - Aviation

Job Description

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At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for an 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 an Infrastructure Project Manager with 7+ years' experience delivering commercial, building, and civil infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle. Working within a multidisciplinary consultancy environment, you will lead the delivery of high-profile developments from project inception through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out.

In this role, you will support the delivery of a major, multi-year capital investment programme that is transforming a nationally significant infrastructure asset.

We encourage applications from candidates with:

• Experience working with the NEC Suite of Contracts in a client, contractor, or subcontractor role.
• Experience delivering projects within the aviation sector or other similarly constrained or operationally complex environments.
• Experience delivering major projects across any infrastructure sector.

What you’ll do

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.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We are seeking a highly experienced professional with a proven track record across our core infrastructure markets, spanning all infrastructure sectors, including aviation.

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

• Minimum of 7 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 regulated 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.
• Ability to govern and drive outcomes to ensure project outputs that meet required standards
• 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.

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