Project Manager – Architecture & Design Studio

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We are seeking a skilled and experienced Project Manager to join our Architecture + Design Studio. This role will lead the management and delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring alignment with client expectations, project goals, and financial objectives. The ideal candidate will be a confident leader with strong communication, organisational, and commercial management skills, adept at guiding teams to deliver high-quality outcomes seamlessly.

Your day-to-day here at AECOM.

• Responsible for the overall management and administration of assigned projects.
• Ensure projects are delivered in alignment with design, budget, and schedule requirements.
• Proactively engage with clients, fostering strong relationships and ensuring satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive commercial success by managing project finances, ensuring profitability, positive cashflow and addressing risks proactively.
• Manage project resourcing, audits, and reviews.
• Understand the contractual requirements of each project, and proactively engage with the Commercial Team.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams, championing best practice, safety, and quality standards.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to resolve complex issues and achieve project goals efficiently.
• Foster a positive and inclusive work environment, promoting collaboration and engagement within the A+D Studio, and from across AECOM

About you

• Proven experience in project management, preferably in architecture, design, or construction within large, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and guide diverse teams.
• Good commercial acumen.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and client relationship management abilities.
• A track record of successfully delivering projects on time, within budget, and to a high standard of quality.
• Understanding of design and construction processes, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency in project management software and tools.

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Professional certification in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is an advantage.
• Experience with AECOM or similar Architecture practices or multidisciplinary firms is highly desirable.

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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 $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.