Associate Project Manager

Job Description

Job Summary

As an Associate within AECOM’s London Project Management Team, you will be responsible for leading and managing large-scale built environment and construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring their successful delivery while using your expertise to lead more junior members of our team and contribute to business initiatives. You will deliver complex projects in social infrastructure estates transformation, with significant heritage, fit-out, infrastructure and engineering features.

Your role will involve independently overseeing significant phases of projects, guiding junior team members, and leading on client and consultant relationships. Additionally, you will support business development activities and contribute to AECOM's team and organisational growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and Deliver: Drive project delivery on our project management commissions to meet time, budget, and quality requirements, while fostering collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors, and team members.  Use your experience to take responsibility for our service delivery on large-scale projects.
• Client-Centric Excellence: Strengthen client relationships by delivering an exceptional service, aligning project outcomes with client objectives and contributing to the business’ growth.
• Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support junior members of our team in their career development, contribute to talent development initiatives and champion a positive, high-performance team culture.
• Industry Engagement and Growth: Support bids and business development activities, engage with industry forums and networking events, and take ownership of your professional growth and knowledge-sharing within the organisation.

Skills and Experiences

• Ability to satisfy clearance checks as required by UK Central government bodies.
• Substantial experience and technical knowledge in project management within the built environment or construction industry.
• Experience managing projects with minimal supervision – self-directed and experienced in project delivery.
• Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple or major projects, workstreams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate leadership potential and client relationship expertise.
• Passionate about delivering high-quality consulting services, and comfortable in the role of consultant.
• Able to manage more junior resources on projects.
• Contribute to the development of our best-practice approach to project management.
• Experience contributing to work winning efforts and bidding.
• Be proactive, solution-oriented and adaptable to changing circumstances.
• Ability to be involved in team management functions, including line management and business development.
• Ability to support the development of colleagues, particularly towards professional qualifications (e.g., RICS, CIOB, APM).

Qualifications

Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, CIOB, APM) achieved or commitment to achieve one.

Additional Information

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 [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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