Infrastructure Project Manager - Manchester Lead

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.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.  

Are you a Project Management (Infrastructure) professional looking to work on projects that make a difference and enhance the world around us? If so, we are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for several key opportunities across a broad portfolio, delivering for clients in Energy, Water, Rail, Aviation, Highways.

As our Manchester portfolio continues to expand, we’re looking for an ambitious Office Lead to take the reins of our local team and play a pivotal role in the next phase of regional growth.

This is more than a team management role — it’s an opportunity to build, shape and lead a thriving PM capability within one of AECOM’s most commercially successful regions, supporting major clients such as the Environment Agency and driving forward our FY26 growth ambitions.

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll act as the focal point for our Manchester-based Infrastructure PM capability — ensuring the team is engaged, developed, and commercially effective. Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading local office operations and acting as the day-to-day leadership presence for the Manchester PM team
• Driving targeted recruitment to support planned regional growth
• Managing team structure, line management arrangements, and regular engagement with all team members
• Setting meaningful personal and business objectives aligned with regional performance targets
• Supporting career development plans and progression pathways across the team
• Monitoring and maintaining utilisation to ensure strong commercial performance
• Ensuring team CVs and capability profiles are current, compelling and client-ready
• Fostering a positive team culture through regular engagement and local initiatives

Why this role?

You’ll be stepping into a leadership position within a region that consistently outperforms national utilisation benchmarks and plays a key role in delivering multi-million programmes of work. With strong pipelines across the infrastructure markets, you’ll have the platform — and autonomy — to grow a team, influence performance, and help secure the next generation of major frameworks.

If you’re motivated by building teams, developing people and delivering outcomes that matter to clients and communities alike, we’d love to hear from you to work on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, both nationally and locally. You will be joining a growing team of like-minded people that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.

As a Project Director (Project Management) you will also be responsible for Client Project Delivery.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Lead the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary complex projects within collaborative delivery teams.
• Provide effective support and mentoring to Project Managers, Graduates and Apprentices.
• Ensure commissions are managed and completed efficiently, on time and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Support and manage the project team ensuring appropriate resources are provided on projects, meeting the client and business requirements
• Ensure projects and commissions are delivered to the satisfaction of the client for quality, cost, and time
• Develop strong relationships with clients and members of the cross-functional team
• Support business development opportunities with existing and new clients. Be the primary interface with AECOM clients (new and existing)

Qualifications

Here's what we're looking for 

• A minimum 9 years of proven experience providing a full spectrum of PM services including general post contract management and administration, proactively engaging with relevant stakeholders, being aware of the scope of service and ensuring delivery within the agreed parameters.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of NEC3/4 contract management, ideally with Accreditation.
• A relevant degree such as in project management, engineering, environmental science, construction, or relevant subject. Alternatively, relevant experience in industry would be considered acceptable for exceptional candidates.
• Demonstrable experience in team leadership & management of resources, resource planning and supporting the development of less experienced resources within the team
• Experience in the built environment as client-side Project Manager (Energy, Aviation, Water, Rail and/or NEC Project management)
• A project management qualification such as APMQ or PRINCE2 would be desirable.
• Ability to undertake and successfully complete security screening checks.
• Membership of a related professional body preferably chartered (APM, CIOB) would be desirable
• Experience of working in the Built Environment and demonstrated experience of all aspects of Infrastructure Project Management
• Experience of working as part of an integrated, multi-organisation, collaborative team
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Highly motivated with a growing industry network
• Relationship building skills –ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams, and stakeholders as well as an ability to build and maintain networks of business contacts.
• Able to work under own initiative where appropriate working closely with the Senior Project Managers and Associates in the delivery of some of our projects.
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible
• Excellent IT Skills and the ability to utilise current digital tools.
• Excellent numeracy, verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of a variety of project types/sizes/sectors with an ability to be agile and adaptable to differing client requirements
• Practitioner of NEC suite of contracts, particularly the Professional Services Contract (PSC) and Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC)
• Proven ability to advise clients and design teams on value, risks and programme
• Willing to challenge in a positive and engaging manner

If you meet the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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