Associate Project Manager

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

About Our Team:

Our team of enthusiastic and ambitious professionals have an established reputation for providing high quality project management services across a wide range of public and private sector building and infrastructure projects. As our client's trusted advisors, we bring exceptional leadership which is proven to deliver successful projects. We place great emphasis on understanding our client's needs and objectives and this systematic approach to delivery of service and commitment to customer care delivers excellent standards of service. We collaborate and bring world class knowledge and experience to local delivery ensuring we plan, execute and close projects consistently.

We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and national projects from our four offices across the South West Region - Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter and Plymouth.

Start here. Grow here.

As an Associate Project Manager, you will be expected to work with a Project Director to successfully manage and deliver infrastructure and construction capital investment projects across sectors including Higher Education, Government and Defence.

This role involves providing client-side project management support during all stages of the project delivery lifecycle from option studies, option development, construction tender support through to NEC contract administration and Takeover.

Here's what you'll do:

• Client-side project management, including stakeholder, schedule and contract management
• Be the primary interface with AECOM clients (new and existing)
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with clients, stakeholders and members of the multi-disciplinary project team
• Lead in the delivery of Project Management commissions, taking responsibility for their successful outcome
• Manage the efficient delivery of project management team outputs, in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards
• Oversee the co-ordination and sign-off of all management information produced by the project management team prior to issue
• Provide line management and mentoring to all staff members reporting to you and ensure that they have current and relevant training
• Participate in business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross-selling opportunities, ensuring that these are identified and acted upon
• Management of tender documents, appraisals and negotiations
• Management of other Project Managers
• Valid Security clearance (SC Level preferred - AECOM can support individuals in gaining security clearance where required)

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Good working knowledge of NEC3 / NEC4 contracts or similar, and commercial awareness
• Public sector project delivery experience an advantage with preferred experience in commercial and residential sectors
• Collaborative management skills
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Specific industry and project experience
• Valid UK driving licence

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Qualified - ideally Project Management/ Engineering /Construction /Quantity Surveying Degree
• Chartered Status with the ICE, RICS, CIOB, RIBA or other equivalent institution
• APM affiliation preferred (as secondary accreditation)
• NEC3 / NEC4 Accredited PM preferred

Additional Information

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.

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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.

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