Senior Project Manager

South Africa, South Africa

Job Description


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 nearly 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.



As a Project Manager you will be expected to work with a Project Manager, Associate or Director to successfully manage, coordinate and deliver projects. The role will cover the whole project lifecycle from initial inception, through the design and procurement process and onto the site delivery and commissioning phase.

The Senior Project Manager will be expected to:

1. Work with other member of the project management team to successfully manage and deliver capital investment projects.

2. Act as the key day to day client interface ensuring that client objectives are met.

3. Lead project management commissions taking overall responsibility for their successful delivery.

4. Liaise directly with clients, oversee project management team members with their duties.

5. Ensure commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on time.

6. Planning, directing and supervising all operations included in moderately sized projects with moderate risk, complexity and financial impact.

7. Have a passion for first class service deliver, implementing best practice and continuous improvement and promoting AECOM externally.

8. Build on our portfolio of major blue-chip clients and high-profile projects.

9. Supporting the development of proposal for new work

10. Be specifically responsible for delegated business development / marketing objectives.

11. Contribute to the overall operational running of the AECOM project management team

Approach to all projects requires a high degree of flexibility and creativity, excellent presentational skills and an ability to communicate effectively with clients and consultants. The successful candidate shall be charged with the delivery of Project Management Services within our Client focused and highly motivated professional team.

1. Enthusiastic self-starter looking to progress their career.

2. Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a wider team.

3. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills are key.

4. Strong experience of delivering technically complex projects.

5. Proven track record of delivering technically complex construction projects from inception to completion.

6. Experience of working in another comparable consultancy environment, or with a client organisation.

7. Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills

8. Good understanding of project Governance and procurement processes.

9. Ability to develop long term relationships with all team members, and effectively balance people and processes.

Qualifications

  • Project Mangement related degree or Masters - ideally Project Management / Construction / Engineering / Quantity Surveying
  • Post Graduate Qualification - ideally Project Management / Construction / Engineering / Quantity Surveying related.
  • In the process of pursuing Chartered Status with either of the following institutions: SCSI/RICS / CIOB / RIBA / EI
  • APM affiliation is a benefit.
Additional Information

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 $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. 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.

AECOM

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  • Job Id
    JD1265465
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    South Africa, South Africa
  • Education
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