Senior Utility Asset Management Project Manager

Aecom2; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM seeks a Senior Utility Asset Management Project Manager to lead multidisciplinary teams across planning, assessment, design, rehabilitation, and management of water and wastewater conveyance systems.

You will grow client relationships, manage project delivery, mentor staff, and advance asset management programs aligned with ISO 55000, GIS integration, and capital improvement planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects from planning through construction.
• Serve as Project Manager for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk management objectives are met.
• Develop project execution plans, work plans, schedules, and staffing forecasts.
• Monitor project financial performance, including project budgets, utilization, revenue forecasting, and profitability.

Skills

Conveyance infrastructure

Asset management

Capital planning

Condition assessment

Program implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GIS

CMMS

Hydraulic modeling

Enterprise Asset Management Systems

Job description

AECOM is seeking an experienced Senior Utility Asset Management Project Manager to support the growth and delivery of municipal water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure programs throughout the East region. The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams in the planning, assessment, design, rehabilitation, and management of water and wastewater conveyance systems while providing strategic asset management solutions for utility clients.

This individual will serve as both a project manager and technical leader, responsible for client relationships, project delivery, business development support, and mentoring of junior staff. The role requires strong technical expertise in conveyance infrastructure, utility asset management, capital planning, condition assessment, and program implementation.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects from planning through construction.
• Serve as Project Manager for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk management objectives are met.
• Develop project execution plans, work plans, schedules, and staffing forecasts.
• Monitor project financial performance, including project budgets, utilization, revenue forecasting, and profitability.
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders and facilitate project meetings.
• Ensure compliance with AECOM quality management systems and project delivery procedures.

Asset Management Leadership

• Develop and implement utility asset management programs aligned with industry best practices and ISO 55000 principles.
• Lead teams to conduct asset inventories, condition assessments, criticality analyses, and risk-based prioritization studies.
• Support development of Capital Improvement Plans (CIPs), asset management plans, and long-term infrastructure investment strategies.
• Lead lifecycle cost analyses and asset renewal/replacement planning efforts.
• Integrate asset management practices with GIS, CMMS, hydraulic modeling, and enterprise asset management systems.
• Assist clients in establishing asset management frameworks, performance metrics, and decision-support systems.

Client Engagement & Business Development

• Maintain and expand relationships with municipal, utility, and regional clients.
• Participate in proposal development, interviews, and strategic capture planning.
• Identify opportunities for cross-business collaboration and growth.
• Support regional market sector initiatives and business development goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients on infrastructure and asset management challenges.

Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor and develop junior and mid-level technical staff.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team environment.
• Promote innovation and continuous improvement across project delivery practices.

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 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.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's degr