Associate: Project Manager

Associate: Project Manager Full-time State/Province: Cork Business Group: DCS Legal Entity: AECOM Ireland Limited Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places Work Location Model: Hybrid Operating Group: International Primary Location: IE - Cork - Montrose House Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. 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. 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. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Start here. Grow here. At AECOM, we're recruiting for an Associate: Project Manager to join our growing Project Management team in Cork.

AECOM is looking for an experienced and motivated Associate: Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of complex healthcare and education projects across Cork and the wider Munster region. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced project management professional with a strong track record of delivering complex capital projects, ideally within the public sector. As an Associate: Project Manager, you will take a leadership role in managing projects throughout their lifecycle, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, managing key client relationships, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on programme, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and governance. The role will involve working closely with public sector clients, design teams, contractors, consultants, and statutory authorities to deliver high-quality healthcare facilities and education buildings that provide long-term value to clients and communities. In addition to project delivery, you will contribute to the continued growth and development of AECOM's Project Management business, supporting client development, business opportunities, team development, and the delivery of best-practice project management services.

Lead the successful delivery of healthcare and education projects through all stages of the project lifecycle, from business case, planning, and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. Take overall responsibility for the effective management and coordination of assigned projects, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, programme, budget, quality, and risk objectives. Act as a senior point of contact for clients, developing trusted and long-term relationships with public sector organisations, senior stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and statutory authorities. Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, promoting effective collaboration across project management, cost management, design, engineering, and specialist consultancy disciplines. Develop, implement, and maintain project execution plans, delivery programmes, budgets, procurement strategies, risk registers, governance frameworks, and reporting arrangements. Provide strong project governance and leadership, ensuring key risks, issues, decisions, and opportunities are identified, communicated, and proactively managed. Monitor and report on project performance, taking appropriate corrective action to manage programme, cost, scope, quality, risk, and stakeholder requirements. Lead and support procurement activities in accordance with Irish public