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Senior project manager (higher education, healthcare construction)

Cambridge
Aecom
Project manager
Posted: 12 January
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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 world’s 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 Norfolk office, you will need to have proven experience gained within consultancy or client organisation with a focus on one or more of the following key construction markets, Higher Education, Healthcare, Life Sciences or Defence.

You will have the ability and experience to undertake a lead role on medium to large sized projects, with minimal support whilst providing line management support as part of your duties.

Within the role of Senior Project Manager you will be expected to work as part of an integrated team on a significant component of a large complex project, that will be led by 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.

Here’s what you’ll do:

1. Lead Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for their successful delivery

2. To provide effective support, supervision and motivation of Project Managers, Assistant/Graduate and Apprentice Project Managers

3. Ensure all staff members reporting to you have current and relevant training

4. Lead the management of the delivery of project management team outputs, in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards

5. Lead internal AECOM Project Team Meetings for the purposes of coordinating the AECOM Project Team.

6. Co-ordinate, review and ensure that there has been a sign off of all management information produced by project management teams prior to issue

7. Lead the development of strong relationships with clients and members of the cross-functional team

8. Lead the delivery of Project Management Commissions ensuring their successful delivery.

9. Be the main interface with AECOM clients (New and Existing)

10. Lead the management of design

11. Lead the management of tender documents, appraisals and negotiations

12. Lead the formulation and management of construction contracts

13. Progress business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross- selling opportunities.

14. To support ‘winning’ clients, being responsible for the quality of work outputs, effective communication and demonstration of professional behaviours

15. Provide leadership within project management business and provide leadership and mentoring to the team

16. Manage project finances, resourcing, audits, and reviews, to a portfolio of projects being led within the cost centre

17. Formulate fee proposals

18. Support Project Managers through Professional Chartership

19. Active involvement in recruitment and retention activities

20. 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 what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

As the successful applicant you will have the qualifications and experience;

21. Professional Qualified – ideally Project Management/ Construction/Engineering/Quantity Surveying Degree

22. Chartered Status with the RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE or other equivalent institution

23. Experience working within a consultancy

24. Excellent understanding of the roles of different parties involved in construction projects and how these roles change over the life of the project

25. Proven experience gained preferably in the Life Science, Tertiary Education or Defence construction sectors.

26. Excellent understanding of construction contracts

27. Excellent understanding of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

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

Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!

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

About 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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10143920

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Program & Project Management

Work Location Model: Hybrid

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