Project Manager

Aecom; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

AECOM Buildings + Places is seeking a skilled Senior Project Manager to lead complex multidisciplinary projects in the United Kingdom. You will manage contracts, coordinate with diverse teams, and nurture client relationships to drive successful delivery.

With hybrid work options, you can balance site-based and office-based collaboration while contributing to strategic growth and project excellence across the lifecycle from design through handover.

Qualifications

• Delivery of complex multidisciplinary Buildings and Infrastructure projects from concept to handover.
• Experience with NEC suite of contracts, including PSC and ECC.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a high performing, multi-organisational team.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to build strong client relationships and networks.
• Able to work with Senior Project Managers and Associates.
• Team player with can-do attitude and flexible approach.
• Experience in client organisations or co-location/secondment arrangements.
• Excellent IT and numeracy skills.

Responsibilities

• Delivering complex, multidisciplinary design and construction projects across all lifecycle stages.
• Maintaining regular communication with clients, design teams, procurement, cost engineering, planning, construction, and OHS teams for seamless coordination.
• Providing contract administration across the NEC4 suite of contracts and managing processes, risks and obligations.
• Overseeing changes to project scope through formal change control and reporting progress.
• Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships and contributing to business growth.

Skills

Complex projects delivery

NEC contracts experience

Communication skills

Client relationship building

Team collaboration

Digital tools usage

Education

Master’s degree in PM/Engineering/QS

NEC accreditation

Chartered status (RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/APM)

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

AutoCAD

Job description

• Delivering complex, multidisciplinary design and construction projects across all project lifecycle stages, from initial design through to handover, while ensuring client expectations, programme milestones and budget requirements are met.
• Maintaining regular and effective communication with clients, design teams, procurement, cost engineering, planning, construction, and OHS teams to ensure seamless project coordination, informed decision-making, and the timely resolution of issues.
• Providing effective contract administration across the NEC4 suite of contracts, proactively managing contractual processes, risks, and stakeholder obligations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Overseeing changes to project scope, ensuring they are effectively managed through formal change control procedures to minimise impacts on programme, cost, and quality, while tracking and reporting project progress.
• Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships, proactively supporting business development activities, identifying new opportunities, and contributing to the continued growth of the business.

Qualifications

Here’s what we’ll be looking for

• Evidence of successfully delivering complex, multi-disciplined, Buildings and Infrastructure projects from concept to handover
• Experience of the NEC suite of contracts, ideally including the Professional Services Contract (PSC) and Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC)
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of a high performing, integrated, multi-organisational, team
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Highly motivated with a growing industry network and the ability to build strong relationships with clients and other stakeholders, as well as an ability to build and maintain networks of business contacts.
• Able to work under own initiative where appropriate working closely with the Senior Project Managers and Associates in the delivery of some of our projects.
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible
• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a co-location/secondment arrangement.
• Excellent IT Skills and the ability to utilize current digital tools.
• Excellent numeracy, verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Academic Qualification – ideally Project Management/ Construction/Engineering/Quantity Surveying Master’s Degree
• NEC 3/4 accreditation
• Chartered Status with the RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE, APM or other equivalent institution

Additional Information

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Enjoy the Perks.

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 a Disability Confident Employer 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 Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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.

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 a Disability Confident Employer 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 Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.