Project Director

Job Description

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At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for a Project Director to join our Cork office.

About the Role

AECOM is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Project Director to lead the successful delivery of complex healthcare and education projects across Cork and the wider Munster region. This leadership role will oversee multidisciplinary project teams, manage key client relationships, and ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

The successful candidate will play a strategic role in growing AECOM's Construction Consultancy business, driving excellence in project delivery while supporting public sector clients in the development of modern healthcare facilities and educational infrastructure.

• Lead the delivery of major healthcare and education capital projects from inception through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Act as the primary client interface, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders including public sector bodies, design teams, contractors, and statutory authorities.
• Provide strategic project leadership, governance, and assurance across multiple concurrent commissions.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring effective collaboration between project management, cost management, design, and specialist consultancy disciplines.
• Develop and oversee project execution plans, programmes, budgets, risk registers, procurement strategies, and reporting frameworks.
• Monitor project performance against key objectives, implementing proactive measures to manage risk, programme, cost, quality, and compliance.
• Lead procurement processes in accordance with Irish public procurement requirements and applicable forms of contract.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant health and safety legislation, environmental standards, and quality management systems.
• Mentor and develop project managers and junior team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

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Here's what we're looking for:

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working across a range of sectors and will possess the following qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Degree qualification in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Professional membership of a recognised institution (e.g. Chartered Engineer, Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Builder, or equivalent).
• Significant experience delivering complex capital projects within a construction consultancy environment.
• Proven track record leading large-scale healthcare, hospital, education, or public infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, programme management, procurement, contract administration, and risk management.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and delivering projects for public sector clients.
• Excellent commercial awareness and financial management capability.
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

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.