Associate Project Manager (Education Construction Sector)

AECOM Corporation; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Volunteering days

Job summary

AECOM seeks an Associate Project Manager to join our Education sector team, delivering client-side project management across option studies, development, tender support, and NEC/JCT contract administration.

You will interface with Project Directors, manage stakeholder relations, schedules, and contract governance, mentoring staff and contributing to bids and business development. AECOM offers hybrid working, career development, and diverse projects.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of JCT and NEC3 / NEC4 contracts or similar, and commercial awareness
• Collaborative management approach and skill set
• Quality driven mindset; focus on effective outcomes and high quality process
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Specific industry and project experience
• Valid UK driving licence

Responsibilities

• Client-side project management, including stakeholder, schedule and contract management
• Be the primary interface with AECOM clients (new and existing)
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with clients, stakeholders and members of the multi-disciplinary project team
• Lead in the delivery of Project Management commissions, taking responsibility for their successful outcome
• Manage the efficient delivery of project management team outputs, in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards
• Oversee the co-ordination and sign-off of all management information produced by the project management team prior to issue
• Provide line management and mentoring to all staff members reporting to you, ensure that they have current and relevant training to develop their careers and support our clients
• Participate in business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross-selling opportunities, ensuring that these are identified and acted upon
• Lead and or input into bids with existing and new clients as the opportunities arise
• Management of other Project Managers and Early Careers on your projects and commissions, making affective use of resource at your disposal
• Public sector project delivery experience an advantage with preferred experience in commercial and residential sectors an advantage
• Support the Regional Project Management Lead with wider team management

Skills

Client-side project management

Stakeholder management

Schedule management

Contract management

Team leadership

Mentoring

Business development

Bid management

Resource management

Public sector experience

Education

PM/Engineering/Construction Degree

Chartered status (ICE/RICS/CIOB/RIBA)

Job description

• Full-time
• State/Province: Bristol, City of
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
• Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - Bristol, 3 Rivergate

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

About Our Team:

We are a true team of proud project management professionals with a passion for delivering rewarding projects for our clients.

We have proven expertise delivering a range of large, complex projects that range from £5m to over £250m, plus the delivery of programmes of work for various central and local governance authorities as part of regional and national frameworks.

Our Project Management teams are working with various clients in the public sector, including local authorities for delivery of their specialist school facilities, central government clients managing programmes of work across their estate as part of national and regional frameworks, the ministry of defence and, several higher education institutions notably the University of Bristol and the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.

Start here. Grow here.

In this position as an Associate Project Manager, you will be expected to work with a Project Director or Regional Director to successfully manage and deliver projects across in the education sector. This role involves providing client-side project management support during all stages of the project delivery lifecycle from option studies, option development, construction tender support through to NEC Project Management or JCT Contract Administration.

• Client-side project management, including stakeholder, schedule and contract management
• Be the primary interface with AECOM clients (new and existing)
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with clients, stakeholders and members of the multi-disciplinary project team
• Lead in the delivery of Project Management commissions, taking responsibility for their successful outcome
• Manage the efficient delivery of project management team outputs, in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards
• Oversee the co-ordination and sign-off of all management information produced by the project management team prior to issue
• Provide line management and mentoring to all staff members reporting to you, ensure that they have current and relevant training to develop their careers and support our clients
• Participate in business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross-selling opportunities, ensuring that these are identified and acted upon
• Lead and or input into bids with existing and new clients as the opportunities arise
• Management of other Project Managers and Early Careers on your projects and commissions, making affective use of resource at your disposal
• Client-side project management, including stakeholder, schedule and contract management
• Public sector project delivery experience an advantage with preferred experience in commercial and residential sectors an advantage
• Support the Regional Project Management Lead with wider team management

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Why not give our AECOM Buildings + Places page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see first hand the difference we're making in the industry!

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Good working knowledge of JCT and NEC3 / NEC4 contracts or similar, and commercial awareness
• Collaborative management approach and skill set
• Quality driven mindset; focus on effective outcomes and high quality process
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Specific industry and project experience
• Valid UK driving licence

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Qualified – ideally Project Management/ Engineering /Construction /Quantity Surveying Degree
• Chartered Status with the ICE, RICS, CIOB, RIBA or other equivalent institution
• APM affiliation preferred (as secondary accreditation)
• NEC3 / NEC4 Accredited PM preferred

Additional Information

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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 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, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.

We are aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the DisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

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