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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for an Programme Management Director to join us at our Dublin office.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities;

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 infrastructure markets along with having the following qualifications and experience:

Programme Requirements, Standards & Performance

Coordinate End-to-End Programme Management: Lead and coordinate programme activities, collaborating closely with internal delivery teams, external consultants, and contractors to ensure efficient delivery.
Financial Oversight: Own the programme budget, including financial planning, regular reporting, and optimal allocation of resources.
Performance Tracking: Define, monitor, and report on delivery milestones and KPIs to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
Stakeholder Engagement: Engage proactively with key aviation stakeholders, delivery partners, and internal functions to understand the wider programme landscape and ensure strategic alignment.
Governance & Compliance: Ensure all programme activities comply with internal governance processes, preparing quality submissions to progress through project control points and enable assured delivery.
Process Excellence: Implement best practice procedures, ensuring strong programme controls are in place to drive performance, value, and efficiency.

Programme Delivery

Delivery Oversight & Quality Assurance: Apply expert judgement and oversight throughout the programme lifecycle; ensure rigorous QA either directly or in coordination with the Head of Quality Assurance.
Risk & Issue Management: Identify, escalate, and support the resolution of risks and issues, maintaining momentum and programme integrity.
Governance Leadership: Establish and manage robust programme governance structures, ensuring consistent application across all delivery teams.
Strategic Alignment: Ensure programme goals remain aligned with business strategy, portfolio objectives, and wider functional briefs.
Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives, lean delivery methods, and value engineering to reduce cost and risk, and maximise contingency.
Delegated Authority: Exercise delegated authority on low- to medium-risk projects in accordance with portfolio governance frameworks.
Regulatory Compliance & Consents: Lead the acquisition of necessary consents and ensure full compliance with regulatory and environmental commitments.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Team Leadership: Manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, including project controls, design, and delivery consultants, to achieve programme goals effectively.
Resource Efficiency: Oversee resource planning across the programme, ensuring effective allocation to meet deadlines and deliverables.
Critical Oversight: Constructively challenge project manager forecasts and third-party supplier information to ensure accuracy and accountability.
Health & Safety Leadership: Foster a strong culture of health, safety, and well-being, promoting best practices and behavioural safety across the programme and organisation.
Stakeholder Communication: Act as a key point of contact for high-level stakeholder engagement, providing updates, managing expectations, and ensuring collaborative delivery

Qualifications

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 insfratructure markets along with having the following qualifications and experience:

Experience in Programme delivery across Infrastructure programmes of significant size and complexity, with at least 5 years of senior management experience.
Must have experience from inception to completion of complex high value airport/aviation projects, preferably in the delivery of airfield infrastructure including runway/apron/taxiway development and rehab.

Extensive knowledge of and understanding of capital project and programme delivery and how this supports and integrates with a wider high functioning environment and capital investment plan.

Strong and demonstrable leadership and management skills, including project management, and procurement.
Strong planning, governance and delivery skills with the ability to set team goals, objectives and priorities, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for all direct reports.
Tangible experience of documenting best practice delivery, policies and standards.

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 [email protected]

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

Additional Information

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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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.