Project Director:Project Management

AECOM; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

AECOM Cork invites applications for a Project Director: Project Management to lead major healthcare and education projects across Cork and the Munster region. You will direct multidisciplinary teams, manage client relationships, and ensure delivery on time, within budget and to quality standards.

In this senior role you will drive governance, reporting, and procurement strategies while mentoring project managers, supporting public sector clients, and contributing to the growth of AECOM’s

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Professional membership of a recognised institution (e.g. Chartered Engineer, Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Builder, or equivalent).
• Significant experience delivering complex capital projects within a construction consultancy environment.
• Proven track record leading large-scale healthcare, hospital, education, or public infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, programme management, procurement, contract administration, and risk management.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and delivering projects for public sector clients.
• Excellent commercial awareness and financial management capability.
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of major healthcare and education capital projects through every stage of the project lifecycle, from business case and planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, public sector organisations, design consultants, contractors, and statutory authorities.
• Provide strategic leadership, governance, and oversight across multiple complex projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives and organisational priorities.
• Direct multidisciplinary project teams, fostering effective collaboration across project management, cost management, design, and specialist consultancy disciplines.
• Develop and oversee project execution plans, delivery programmes, budgets, procurement strategies, risk registers, governance frameworks, and client reporting.
• Monitor project performance against key objectives, proactively managing programme, cost, quality, risk, compliance, and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead procurement activities in accordance with Irish public procurement legislation and established forms of contract.
• Ensure full compliance with health and safety legislation, environmental requirements, quality management systems, and AECOM governance standards.
• Mentor, coach, and develop project managers and junior team members, promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Commercial awareness

Communications

Public sector experience

Education

Degree in Construction Management / Engineering / Quantity Surveying / Architecture

Professional membership ( Chartered Engineer / Chartered Surveyor / Chartered Builder )

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. 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.

Job Description Overview

At AECOM, we’re recruiting for a Project Director: Project Management to join our growing Project Management team in Cork.

About the Role

AECOM is looking for an experienced and ambitious Project Director: Project Management to lead the successful delivery of complex healthcare and education projects across Cork and the wider Munster region. This is a senior leadership opportunity for a professional with a proven track record of delivering major capital projects in the public sector. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage strategic client relationships, and ensure projects are delivered safely, on programme, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and governance. As Project Director, you will also play a key role in the continued growth of AECOM’s Construction Consultancy business, supporting public sector clients in delivering modern healthcare facilities and educational infrastructure that create lasting value for communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of major healthcare and education capital projects through every stage of the project lifecycle, from business case and planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, public sector organisations, design consultants, contractors, and statutory authorities.
• Provide strategic leadership, governance, and oversight across multiple complex projects, ensuring alignment with client objectives and organisational priorities.
• Direct multidisciplinary project teams, fostering effective collaboration across project management, cost management, design, and specialist consultancy disciplines.
• Develop and oversee project execution plans, delivery programmes, budgets, procurement strategies, risk registers, governance frameworks, and client reporting.
• Monitor project performance against key objectives, proactively managing programme, cost, quality, risk, compliance, and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead procurement activities in accordance with Irish public procurement legislation and established forms of contract.
• Ensure full compliance with health and safety legislation, environmental requirements, quality management systems, and AECOM governance standards.
• Mentor, coach, and develop project managers and junior team members, promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Professional membership of a recognised institution (e.g. Chartered Engineer, Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Builder, or equivalent).
• Significant experience delivering complex capital projects within a construction consultancy environment.
• Proven track record leading large‑scale healthcare, hospital, education, or public infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, programme management, procurement, contract administration, and risk management.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and delivering projects for public sector clients.
• Excellent commercial awareness and financial management capability.
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Benefits

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programmes to meet the diverse needs of employees and their families. You will have the flexibility to work in a dynamic environment, with hybrid work options and a culture that values integrity, entrepreneurship and a pioneering mindset. We are a disability confident employer and offer reasonable accommodation for applicants with a disability or long‑term condition.

Contact

For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.

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