Job Description

AECOM is seeking a creative, highly talented Project Manager to join our practice and grow our NJ Architecture market. This position will be located in our Clifton, New Jersey market. Our Project Managers work directly with the client and stakeholders to ensure project and program objectives are met. The successful candidate will demonstrate an affinity for maintaining and delivering high quality projects on time and within budgets while establishing and maintaining excellent client relations.

Responsibilities of the Project Manager are as follows:

Project/Practice Management

• Manages the day-to-day operational aspects of a project, including the budget, base scope and additional services
• Reviews deliverables prepared by the team
• Assumes responsibility (in partnership with the Market Leader and Project Approver) for financial, technical and design excellence, overall quality and client satisfaction
• Ensures project documents, including legal documents, contracts, and task orders are reviewed, approved, signed and filed per the AECOM project management framework
• Manages one or more very complex projects

Project Accounting

• Tracks and reports hours and manages project budget

Communications

• Facilitates team and client meetings
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to the client, team, and internal leadership
• Delivers engaging, informative, and well-organized presentations

Teamwork

• Consistently acknowledges, appreciates, and motivates both individual staff and project team
• Effectively utilizes each team member to his/her fullest potential

Client Management

• Manages day-to-day client interaction and expectations
• Develops lasting relationships with clients and develops opportunities for new projects
• Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative solutions
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction

Leadership

• Challenges others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture. With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable, and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions. Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc., and many Fortune 500 companies.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture or related discipline and a minimum of four (4) years of project management experience in transportation architecture and/or infrastructure architecture or demonstrated equivalency of experience and or/education

Preferred Qualifications :

• Licensed Architect
• Ten years of architectural experience
• Experience with NYCT and other MTA agencies, PANYNJ, and NJ Transit
• LEED Certification

Additional Information

• Relocation is not available for this position
• Sponsorship is not available for this position

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.

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