Senior Project Manager:Drainage

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

At AECOM, we’re currently recruiting a Senior Project Manager:Drainage to join our team in Dublin.

What you’ll do

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of capital projects, ensuring achievement of budget, schedule, quality, and performance objectives.
• Direct and oversee project design development throughout the entire project lifecycle, including Design & Build phases.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and coordination, working collaboratively with internal and external parties to ensure project milestones and delivery timelines are achieved.
• Procure, coordinate, and manage multidisciplinary consultant teams, including Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Water and Wastewater Process Engineers, Environmental Specialists, Archaeologists, and Quantity Surveyors.
• Oversee project estimating, planning, statutory approvals, procurement activities, and governance processes, while maintaining close collaboration with Asset Management, Operations, HSQE, Communications, and Customer Operations teams.
• Maintain accountability for project controls, resource planning, and service delivery requirements, ensuring appropriate consultant oversight and approval of payment applications and certificates.
• Develop, monitor, and report on project delivery plans, cash flow forecasts, earned value metrics, and overall project performance.
• Manage and supervise construction contractors and service providers, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, regulatory requirements, quality standards, and health and safety expectations.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We are seeking a highly experienced professional with a strong background in our core infrastructure markets, including aviation.

As the successful candidate, you will bring the following qualifications and experience:

• Over 15 years of experience leading the delivery of major infrastructure and capital investment programmes, with particular expertise in large-scale civil engineering, drainage, and utility projects.
• Extensive knowledge of project and contract management, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects safely, on schedule, and within budget.
• Demonstrated success in developing, implementing, and driving high-performing project programmes that achieve strategic and operational objectives.
• Significant experience operating within complex, multi-stakeholder environments, effectively managing relationships across clients, contractors, regulatory bodies, local authorities, and community representatives.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence decision-making, build collaborative partnerships, and lead multidisciplinary teams to successful outcomes.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan

 

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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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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.