AECOM is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated, and experienced Senior Aviation Project Manager based in Atlanta to lead the region’s aviation practice, drive strategic growth, and strengthen client relationships. In this leadership role, you will collaborate closely with the East Region Aviation team and, as needed, AECOM’s national aviation team to oversee the planning, design, coordination, and construction of a diverse portfolio of airport infrastructure projects. The position also provides opportunities to deliver technical leadership, foster innovation, and mentor emerging talent across the practice.
In addition, this role will serve as a key Client Account Manager (CAM) within AECOM’s growth-focused program. As a highly visible and strategic position, the CAM is responsible for cultivating and expanding client relationships, driving business development initiatives, and influencing AECOM’s internal growth strategy. Success in this role requires a strong client-centric mindset, the ability to identify and capture new opportunities, and a commitment to delivering exceptional value to clients and stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Project manager for design efforts for airport development projects, including runways, taxiways, aprons, terminals, and related facilities.
- Provide technical leadership and serving as a subject matter expert within the civil aviation engineering group.
- Plan and oversee design activities, including airfield layout, site grading, drainage, pavement design, and stormwater management.
- Mentor and develop staff, provide leadership and an environment which encourages teamwork, initiative and growth.
- Resolve complex technical challenges and make independent engineering decisions
- Build and maintain positive client relationships.
- Develop strategy, prepare proposals, negotiate contracts, and execute projects.
- Coordinate staffing plan and workload through project development duration while meeting project schedules and budgets.
- Control overall project cost and scope, schedule, and quality of work.
- Coordination with clients, agencies, FAA, and other stakeholders.
Client Account Management
- Establish and proactively maintain strong professional relationships and credibility with key aviation clients.
- Employ a consultative selling approach to develop compelling business cases to differentiate and highlight the value of AECOM's solutions and win targeted business.
Business Development
- Position and map AECOM capabilities to customer business objectives and key initiatives.
- Demonstrate a high level of motivation and entrepreneurial ability in leading and supporting pursuits.
- Ability to add value to proposal efforts in concert with the capture managers, the marketing and sales operations teams, and with resources from within the AECOM operation organization.
- Keep abreast of the industry and business challenges and leverage this knowledge to focus on direct sales activities.