Senior Project Manager - Residential

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 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

Are you a Senior Project Manager looking to work on building projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last? 

If so, we are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in London to work on one of our Central London affordable and private residential developments. You will be joining a team of like-minded experts that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.  

About Us: 
AECOM plays a critical role in the conceptualisation and creation of amazing spaces, delivering projects and buildings that define skylines and communities. AECOM Buildings & Places is made up of dedicated teams delivering projects in Commercial, Residential, Hospitality, Sports Venues, Workplaces, Education, Government and Healthcare.
 
We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and overseas projects. Some of our flagship work in recent years include; 

22 Bishopsgate, Knightsbridge Estates, Palace of Westminster, Southbank Place, Arctic Science centres, The Bank of England, BBC Broadcasting House, The Titanic building in Belfast and the St Pancras Chambers Hotel in London to name but a few.

About Our Team: 
We are an industry leader in project management, design management and programme management services for large capital programs and oversee activities ranging the full life-cycle of a project.  The project management team serves both private and public clients in a wide range of sectors. We believe that project management is first and foremost about providing our clients with certainty of outcomes. We look beyond the traditional time, cost, quality view of project delivery and look to understand what is truly important to our clients and how we can better service them. 

Our team has increased demand for individuals with frontend design experience and contract administration experience.  We are looking for confident and ambitious individuals that can demonstrate a balanced, robust and reasonable approach to design, procurement and delivery.

Job Responsibilities: 
You will need to manage and take ownership of all aspects of the project, proactively engaging with the client, construction and design team to drive the project forward. You will be required to prepare succinct and accurate reports that look forward and identify clear actions and recommendations.  When managing a contract, you will be required to positively engage with the construction and design team and work collaboratively to address risks and avoid claims and disputes whilst maintaining meticulous records to allow you to quickly respond to issues arising and form an informed and balanced opinion having due regard to the building contract.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

•    Have experience in working on large scale residential and mixed-use developments and         across multiple tenure types including affordable housing;
•    Excellent communication, interpersonal and team-building skills;
•    Highly motivated, able to work independently, diligent and with an eye for detail;
•    Experience in JCT contract administration;
•    Strong in setting up and implementing robust Project Management processes
•    Demonstrate financial acumen relating to viability and cashflows 
•    Ability to produce formal reports and documents which clearly set out complex issues and       recommendations

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Professional Qualification – ideally Project Management/       Construction/Engineering/Quantity Surveying Master’s Degree
•    Chartered Status with the RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE or other equivalent institution 
•    APM affiliation preferred (as secondary accreditation)

Additional Information

Your Benefits Will Include: 

Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join AECOM, as well as receive a competitive salary, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements. 

Core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, company pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, access to an electric car HPP scheme, a rewarding AECOM share-save scheme, £3k bike-to-work scheme and an annual professional membership fee. You can also choose from a wide range of other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle e.g. dental, gym, saving vouchers.

You’ll also be able to give back to communities with up to two paid CSR days each year. Through our charity, The AECOM Foundation, you can volunteer to support children in developing countries. And if you’re a member of the Reserve Forces you’ll receive an additional 15 days paid leave for training commitments.

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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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.