Program Manager - Federal

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AECOM is seeking a Program Manager to provide management responsibilities for various client programs and projects for a Federal Client in the DC Metro Area. This full-time role will be responsible for working with the Contract/Project Executive in directing, managing, and monitoring the team to resolve challenges to meet client expectations. The role will work onsite closely with the client and team on a day-to-day basis to proactively meet the client's needs. This position is contingent on a future client win and client approval.

This person will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

• Responsible for managing, coordinating, and administering a group of projects or one major project from conceptual stages through all phases of the projects, with the assistance of the project team.
• Responsible for overall performance of the project team and takes the lead in reporting and ensuring project completion within budget, schedule and in conformance with specifications.
• Reviews contracts, scope documents, and available data for the project, and establishes schedules and budgets for compliance with project scope requirements and contract obligations.
• Takes leadership initiative in working with internal team members, and client departments including cost/scheduling, procurement, quality assurance, construction, contracts, legal, labor relations, finance, accounting and other services and departments as required to successfully manage projects.
• Provides an integrated project team approach in working with designers, contractors and governing agencies.
• - Reviews and comments on design submissions, change orders, and contracts/sub-contracts, and represent the client interests to ensure control of and validate change orders are current, fair and efficiently processed.
• Reviews comments received from governing agencies on behalf of the client and coordinates timely resolutions.
• Responsible to proactively monitor critical project milestone dependencies, and track actions which may result in risks to critical project milestones.
• Reviews project key performance indicators and forecasts any modifications to schedules, cost estimates, and financial reports, and effectively reconciles risks to commitments that may exceed assigned schedules and budgets.
• Coordinates communications, stakeholder contacts and maintains good working relationships.
• Monitors and controls contractual commitments to assure work being performed is in accordance with the specifications and terms of the contracts.
• Reviews builder submittals and RFI documents, and provides field surveillance to ensure specified quality of design.
• Conducts project coordination and client meetings as necessary to review progress and discuss upcoming work.
• Works with stakeholders to negotiate and resolve conflicts, disputes, and potential claims on behalf of the client.
• Responsible for leading a construction management team to deliver capital construction projects for US Federal Government clients.
• Development of the Project Execution Plan.
• Management and coordination of Project Managers, Project Controls Team, and Construction personnel
• Coordination of design work with the Design Manager.
• Project to Asset Handover.

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS + 10 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• Experience in with Federal Contacts/Programs,

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelors Degree, PMP , experience in similar role on programs valued >$5M., 
• CCM, PE, RA
• 15+ Years of Experience + Federal experience

• Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Relocation is not available for this position.

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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.

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