Expression of Interest - Project Controls Discipline Lead Opportunities

AECOM; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible work arrangements

Additional annual leave up to 6 weeks

Volunteer and representation leave

Job summary

AECOM is seeking Expressions of Interest for Project Controls Discipline Lead opportunities in Australia. These roles combine discipline leadership with delivery responsibilities, mentoring teams, and shaping the future of project controls across major programs.

Successful candidates will drive standardisation, governance, and value across cost, schedule, risk, and document control, while working in a hybrid environment with clients and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 to 15 years’ experience in project controls, project delivery or a related discipline within major projects or program environments.
• Experience mentoring, supporting and developing project controls professionals within a collaborative team environment.
• Strong technical expertise within your respective discipline, whether cost, planning and scheduling, document control, project controls systems or integrated project controls delivery.
• Proven capability in resource planning, workforce forecasting and capability development.
• A strong understanding of project governance, performance management, risk and change management.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage at senior leadership and client level.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex information into practical insights and recommendations.
• A passion for continuous improvement, innovation and delivering high-quality project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop teams, building capability, accountability and a high-performance culture.
• Oversee resource planning, allocation and utilisation to ensure the right expertise is deployed across projects and priorities.
• Identify capability gaps and drive recruitment, succession planning and professional development initiatives.
• Collaborate with fellow Discipline Leads to optimise resources and strengthen overall project controls capability.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership within your respective discipline.
• Drive consistent application of project controls standards, frameworks, methodologies and governance requirements.
• Champion integrated project controls practices, ensuring cost, schedule, risk, scope, change and performance are effectively connected.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardisation and the adoption of industry best practice.
• Identify emerging project risks, performance trends and opportunities, providing actionable insights to support successful delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with Project Managers, Commercial teams, senior leadership and clients.
• Influence strategic decisions through technical expertise, commercial awareness and data-driven insights.
• Provide clear, accurate and meaningful reporting to support project and program performance.
• Partner with leadership teams to align team priorities with broader business and project objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Project controls

Cost management

Planning & scheduling

Document control

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Resource planning

Job description

Expression of Interest - Project Controls Discipline Lead Opportunities

• Full-time
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM
• Business Line: PgM & R+I
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: Group Support
• Primary Location: AU - Brisbane, QLD

Grow with Us.

At AECOM, we're delivering some of the world's most complex and transformative infrastructure programs. Our global Program Management business brings together industry-leading expertise, innovative delivery approaches, and deep local knowledge to help clients turn ambitious ideas into lasting outcomes.

From Australia's largest transport networks and critical water infrastructure to clean energy, defence, and city-shaping developments, we manage projects that create meaningful social, economic, and environmental value. Working alongside public and private sector clients, we partner from the earliest stages of planning through to delivery and asset completion, creating infrastructure that will serve communities for generations.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking expressions of interest from experienced Project Controls professionals to join our growing Australian Project Controls team in a range of Discipline Lead roles.

As our project and program delivery portfolio continues to expand, these roles have been established to strengthen leadership, capability and technical excellence across the discipline while continuing to deliver outstanding outcomes for our clients.

Discipline Leads combine project delivery responsibilities with discipline leadership, spending most of their time supporting client projects while also mentoring team members, promoting best practices, supporting professional development, and helping shape the future growth of Project Controls across the business.

Discipline Leadership Opportunities

We are seeking expressions of interest across the following disciplines:

• Cost Management Discipline Lead – Leading cost management, forecasting, Earned Value Management (EVM), financial reporting and cost governance.
• Planning & Scheduling Discipline Lead – Driving integrated planning and scheduling, master schedules, critical path analysis, forecasting and schedule performance.
• Document Control Discipline Lead – Leading document control operations, information management, quality assurance, governance and compliance.
• Project Controls Systems Discipline Lead – Driving project controls systems, data governance, digital solutions, reporting platforms and business process improvement.
• Integrated Project Controls Discipline Lead – Leading multidisciplinary project controls delivery, integrating cost, schedule, risk, change, reporting and document control across projects and programs.

What you'll be responsible for:

Discipline Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead, coach and develop teams, building capability, accountability and a high-performance culture.
• Oversee resource planning, allocation and utilisation to ensure the right expertise is deployed across projects and priorities.
• Identify capability gaps and drive recruitment, succession planning and professional development initiatives.
• Collaborate with fellow Discipline Leads to optimise resources and strengthen overall project controls capability.

Technical Excellence & Project Controls Delivery

• Provide strategic and technical leadership within your respective discipline.
• Drive consistent application of project controls standards, frameworks, methodologies and governance requirements.
• Champion integrated project controls practices, ensuring cost, schedule, risk, scope, change and performance are effectively connected.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardisation and the adoption of industry best practice.
• Identify emerging project risks, performance trends and opportunities, providing actionable insights to support successful delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement & Commercial Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with Project Managers, Commercial teams, senior leadership and clients.
• Influence strategic decisions through technical expertise, commercial awareness and data-driven insights.
• Provide clear, accurate and meaningful reporting to support project and program performance.
• Partner with leadership teams to align team priorities with broader business and project objectives.

What you'll bring:

• Approximately 10 to 15 years’ experience in project controls, project delivery or a related discipline within major projects or program environments.
• Experience mentoring, supporting and developing project controls professionals within a collaborative team environment.
• Strong technical expertise within your respective discipline, whether cost, planning and scheduling, document control, project controls systems or integrated project controls delivery.
• Proven capability in resource planning, workforce forecasting and capability development.
• A strong understanding of project governance, performance management, risk and change management.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage at senior leadership and client level.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex information into practical insights and recommendations.
• A passion for continuous improvement, innovation and delivering high-quality project outcomes.

Why You’ll Love Working with Us

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

Ready to Push the Limits of What’s Possible?

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those with disabilities, additional health or mental health needs, and/or neurodiverse conditions. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.

Applications are reviewed as they come in, and the role may close earlier than expected.

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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.

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