Associate Director - Project Management (Water Infrastructure)

AECOM; Perth; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Additional annual leave

Volunteer leave

Hybrid work options

Job summary

AECOM in Perth is seeking an experienced Project Manager to step into an Associate Director role within our Water Infrastructure team. You will work with a group of specialists, partnering with clients across the water sector in Australia to shape innovative solutions that meet challenges across lifecycle.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage complex programs, and oversee design, tendering, contract administration, and risk management while maintaining safety standards and client

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in project management and client delivery.
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline.
• Experience in water & wastewater industry preferred.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and deliver outcomes in complex environments.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Support our clients and manage relationships with consultants, contractors and subcontractors.
• Deliver complex projects and programs ensuring they meet client expectations, timelines, and specifications.
• Manage change, quality, health, safety and risk elements.
• Oversee multiple concurrent projects across the entire life cycle, including design management, tendering, contract administration, financial management, project scheduling and risk management.
• Coordination of multidisciplinary teams - coordinating specialists to deliver high-impact results.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Client-side experience

Communication

Negotiation

Relationship skills

Education

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline

Job description

Company Description

“Varied contributions and ideas are valued, understanding that the best outcome is delivered through an effective team that are working towards a common goal” - Dominique Keirens, Sector Manager - Water Infrastructure, SEQ

Balancing the world’s need for safe, reliable water with protecting this critical natural resource for the future requires a deep understanding of interconnected systems.

We work with clients across the entire project life cycle — from initial planning studies through final construction and operations and maintenance services — on both traditional and alternative project-delivery options (design-build, public-private partnerships and financing).

With a robust design and construction division, AECOM offers a unique perspective on designing projects that are fully constructible.

Everyone belongs at AECOM

We’re committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging - because great ideas come from diverse perspectives. AECOM is proud to be a Fortune 500 Most Admired Company , a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality , # Work180 Equitable Workplace Awards 2025 Winner and an AWEI Bronze Tier LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer .

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager ready to step into an Associate Director role within our Perth Water Infrastructure team.

In this key role, you will work alongside a group of highly skilled specialists, will be a trusted partner to a diverse range of clients across the water sector in Australia and will develop a deep understanding of their challenges to co-create innovative solutions that help shape the future.

How you’ll make a difference:

• - Support our clients and manage relationships with consultants, contractors and subcontractors.
• - Deliver complex projects and programs ensuring they meet client expectations, timelines, and specifications.
• - Manage change, quality, health, safety and risk elements.
• - Oversee multiple concurrent projects across the entire life cycle, including design management, tendering, contract administration, financial management, project scheduling and risk management.
• - Coordination of multidisciplinary teams - coordinating specialists to deliver high-impact results.

Qualifications

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes, you could still be a perfect fit for this role.

The qualities that help you thrive:

• - A strong foundation in project management, with a genuine interest in projects that create real-world impact.
• - Relevant tertiary qualifications in arelated discipline.
• - Ideally, experience within the water & wastewater industry.
• - Proven client-side experience across multiple sectors, with the ability to manage stakeholders, priorities and deliver outcomes in complex environments.
• - Strong communication, negotiation and relationship skills, with experience in consulting, construction, or professional services highly regarded.

Additional Information

Why you’ll love working with us

• - Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• - Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
• - Volunteer and representation leave
• - Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better

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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 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.