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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

At AECOM, we're currently recruiting for a Senior Aviation Project Manager to join our Infrastructure Project Management team in Dublin.

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 experienced Senior Aviation Project Manager with 10+ years' experience successfully delivering complex aviation infrastructure, commercial, buildings, and retail projects throughout 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.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering a major multi-year airport capital investment programme involving transformative upgrades to terminal facilities, baggage handling systems, airfield resilience, advanced security technologies, and critical sustainability infrastructure.

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.

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

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 10 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.
Knowledge of NEC and FIDIC suite of contracts

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.

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 if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

State/Province: Dublin

Business Group: DCS

Legal Entity: AECOM Ireland Limited

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Operating Group: International

Primary Location: IE - Dublin, 1 Burlington Plaza

Senior Aviation Project Manager

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