Design / Project Manager - Bridges Ports & Strctures

AECOM; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Program & Project Manager for Transportation in Australia. You will plan, direct and supervise operations across moderately sized projects, managing technical, financial, and client satisfaction aspects to ensure quality outcomes.

The role offers a hybrid work model with flexible location options and opportunities to lead proposals, negotiate contracts, and act as the primary client contact. AECOM is a global leader delivering infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Plans, directs, and supervises all operations included in moderately sized projects with moderate risk, complexity, and financial impact.
• Manages and leads all technical, financial, and client satisfaction areas using consistent processes and tools.
• May include management of small teams across business lines, in remote locations and/or management of subcontractors.
• Manages projects on a local to regional basis achieving quality outcomes, financial performance and client satisfaction.
• Successfully develops strategy, prepares proposals, negotiates contracts, and executes project.
• Acts as primary point of contact with client.

Job description

Company Description

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

• Plans, directs, and supervises all operations included in moderately sized projects with moderate risk, complexity, and financial impact.
• Manages and leads all technical, financial, and client satisfaction areas using consistent processes and tools.
• May include management of small teams across business lines, in remote locations and/or management of subcontractors.
• Manages projects on a local to regional basis achieving quality outcomes, financial performance and client satisfaction.
• Successfully develops strategy, prepares proposals, negotiates contracts, and executes project.
• Acts as primary point of contact with client.

Additional Information

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.

AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses. Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/.

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.

Business Line: Transportation — Business Group: DCS — Strategic Business Unit: ANZ — Career Area: Program & Project Management — Work Location Model: Hybrid