**Company Description**
**Work with Us. Change the World.**
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the worlds most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
**Job Description**
Start here. Grow here.
As a Senior Project Manager based from our Cambridge or Norwich office, you will need to have proven experience gained within a consultancy or client organisation and with a focus on one or more of the following key construction markets, Higher Education, Healthcare, Life Sciences or Defence.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead medium to large projects with minimal support, provide line management, and deliver significant components of complex projects as part of an integrated team under the direction of a Director.
The role would cover the whole project lifecycle from initial inception and business case development, through the design process, procurement process, site delivery, commissioning phase and defects management.
_Heres what youll do:_
Lead Project Management commissions, taking responsibility for their successful delivery
To provide effective support, supervision and motivation of Project Managers, Assistant/Graduate and Apprentice Project Managers
Ensure all staff members reporting to you have current and relevant training
Lead the management of the delivery of project management team outputs, in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards
Lead internal AECOM Project Team Meetings for the purposes of coordinating the AECOM Project Team.
Co-ordinate, review and ensure that there has been a sign off of all management information produced by project management teams prior to issue
Lead the development of strong relationships with clients and members of the cross-functional team
Lead the delivery of Project Management commissions ensuring their successful delivery.
Be the main interface with AECOM clients (New and Existing)
Lead the management of design
Lead the management of tender documents, appraisals and negotiations
Lead the formulation and management of construction contracts
Progress business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross- selling opportunities.
To support winning clients, being responsible for the quality of work outputs, effective communication and demonstration of professional behaviours
Provide leadership within project management business and provide leadership and mentoring to the team
Manage project finances, resourcing, audits, and reviews, to a portfolio of projects being led within the cost centre
Formulate fee proposals
Support Project Managers through Professional Chartership
Active involvement in recruitment and retention activities
Ensure you complete all relevant training
If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.
Why not give our AECOM Buildings + Places page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see first hand the difference we're making in the industry!
Enjoy the Perks.
At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
**Qualifications**
Ready to push the limits of whats possible?
_Heres what were looking for:_
As the successful applicant you will have the following qualifications and experience;
Professional Qualified ideally Project Management/ Construction/Engineering/Quantity Surveying Degree
Chartered Status with the RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE or other equivalent institution
Experience working within a consultancy
Excellent understanding of the roles of different parties involved in construction projects and how these roles change over the life of the project
Proven experience gained preferably in the Healthcare, Life Science, Tertiary Education or Defence construction sectors.
Excellent understanding of construction contracts
Understanding of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and statutory compliance.
If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
**Additional Information**
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At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. **_To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment._**
**About AECOM**
AECOM is the worlds 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 youre 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. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm, and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and youll 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 persons potential, and well 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 if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
**ReqID:** J
**Business Line:** B&P - Buildings & Places
**Business Group:** DCS
**Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India
**Career Area:** Program & Project Management
**Work Location Model:** Hybrid
