Senior Rail Project Manager

AECOM; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM in Dublin is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead rail-related Irish and UK infrastructure projects, coordinating with clients, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Iarnród Éireann and Translink.

You will manage multidisciplinary teams, drive delivery within budgets and schedules, and ensure quality across the project lifecycle from feasibility to construction, with hybrid working options and a focus on safety, sustainability and client value.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and delivering rail infrastructure projects in Ireland or the UK.
• Experience delivering projects for Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Iarnród Éireann and Translink.
• Familiar with NEC contracts.
• Proven ability to scope and estimate projects.
• Proven experience delivering Rail projects valued over €30 million.

Responsibilities

• Deliver successful project outcomes with ownership and accountability.
• Lead multi-disciplinary engineers and manage stakeholder, schedule, and contract aspects.
• Provide technical knowledge from concept to implementation.
• Oversee quality management across project activities.
• Be a visible leader and trusted advisor to clients.
• Navigate complexities of transportation projects and resolve issues.

Job description

Company Description

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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.

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Job Description

We have a team of Project Managers who are committed and are instrumental to the success of our Transportation projects. An opportunity has become available for someone to join us here at AECOM as theSenior Project Manager in Dublin, Ireland.

This role will see you leading & delivering rail related Irish (or UK) infrastructure or railprojects, working with our Clients, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Iarnród Éireann and Translink.

You will work within the transportation team to successfully manage and deliver capital investment projects. This role will require the individual to work from the Dublin office to which the objective of the position is to lead, pursue, develop and execute projects required to deliver client programs within established and agreed budgets and schedules.

This role involves providing client-side project management support during all stages of the project delivery lifecycle. You’ll be familiar with working in large, geographically dispersed multidisciplinary design teams on projects at varying stages of development from feasibility to detailed design and construction.

Each team member has a development plan to provide a clear pathway to personal development and career progression. The team provides technical leadership of projects throughout the infrastructure lifecycle from feasibility, preliminary and detailed stage designs.

A leading provider of integrated design consultancy services across the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland, we partner with public and private sector clients, applying creative vision, technical excellence, interdisciplinary insight, and local expertise to solve their most complex challenges in new and better ways.

With offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Derry/Londonderry, our team of more than 600 experts, supported by over 87,000 colleagues worldwide, has designed and built some of Ireland’s largest hospitals, most prestigious commercial and residential developments and complex infrastructure schemes. Our agile teams provide multidisciplinary services and offer specialist expertise to every scale or project: from large regeneration schemes to local community-led initiatives.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Deliver: Take ownership of and responsibility for the successful delivery of your project.
• Collaborate: Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and building effective relationships with our technical teams and Client-side project management, including stakeholder, schedule, and contract management.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects, from conceptual phases to implementation.
• Oversee: Undertake the Quality management processes for project activities and outputs.
• Be a visible leader and trusted advisor to clients by promoting AECOM’s values both internally and externally.
• Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise.

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 Transportation page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Experience required:

• Experience of successfully leading & delivering rail related Irish (or UK) infrastructure or railprojects
• Experience and familiarity in delivering projects for Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Iarnród Éireann and Translink.
• Awareness and familiarity of working under NEC suite of contracts.
• Proven ability to scope / estimate projects
• Proven experience in delivering & managing Rail projects in excess of 30million Euros

Additional Information

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 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 theDisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

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