Senior Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure

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At AECOM  we are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure join us at 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 Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure with 15+ years' experience delivering major 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.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

Programme Requirements, Standards & Performance

• Oversee and monitor project delivery, ensuring effective management of schedule, interfaces, costs, variations, contracts, and risks, while coordinating with relevant stakeholders and functions as required.
• Develop and maintain the Project Execution Plan, ensuring alignment with the Contracting Entity’s standards, methodologies, and strategic objectives.
• Manage and maintain the project relationship with the Airport Transformation Manager and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with agreed performance, quality, safety, and governance requirements.

  Team Management

• Lead and manage a team of Project Managers responsible for the successful delivery of individual projects within the programme.
• Provide direction, oversight, and support to ensure appropriate project management processes, controls, and performance measures are implemented and maintained.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive resource plans to support the effective delivery of all projects under the Senior Project Manager’s remit.
• Provide technical, commercial, and contractual guidance to Project Managers in the execution of their responsibilities.
• Monitor, review, and report on project and team performance, identifying risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with the Programme Director and wider programme team to resolve challenges and ensure successful project outcomes.

  Project Management Activities

• Lead the overall coordination and integration of projects, ensuring interfaces and dependencies are identified and managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain and manage the Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) matrix and associated governance frameworks.
• Coordinate and oversee the activities of design consultants, technical teams, contractors, and other external service providers.
• Chair and facilitate design review meetings, ensuring timely design approvals and communication of design acceptance to contractors.
• Manage the communication and implementation of design changes, ensuring all affected stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Prepare and deliver regular project performance reports covering progress, key milestones, risks, issues, and construction activities.
• Maintain the project risk register, ensuring risks are actively managed, reviewed, and reported through regular progress meetings.
• Drive continuous improvement in project management processes, procedures, templates, and reporting tools.
• Implement and monitor performance management and project control measures.
• Manage the project change control process and ensure appropriate governance and approvals are maintained.
• Oversee the effective flow of information between the project team, client, and stakeholders through structured meetings, reporting, and communications.