Program Manager

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The Program Manager will lead the successful delivery of large-scale infrastructure programs within an integrated delivery partner model (or similar), working collaboratively with the client as part of a unified team. This role ensures alignment of program objectives with client priorities, driving performance, governance, and innovation to achieve exceptional outcomes on complex, high-profile projects.

Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight across all program components, ensuring delivery aligns with client objectives, contractual obligations, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks, reporting structures, and decision-making processes within the integrated team environment.

Client

• Act as a trusted advisor and extension of the client’s leadership team, fostering a collaborative, transparent, and high-performance culture.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including government agencies, contractors, and community representatives, ensuring proactive engagement and issue resolution.

Technical/Professional Expertise

• Plan and manage full project lifecycle—including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, and close-out.
• Oversee planning, design, procurement, and delivery phases, ensuring seamless coordination across multiple workstreams and disciplines.
• Drive program performance against schedule, cost, quality, and risk targets, implementing corrective actions where necessary.

Financial/Project Management

• Own project financial performance—forecasting, billing, variations, and margin delivery.

The qualities that help you thrive

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

• Appropriate tertiary qualification in project/program management, engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years’ relevant experience delivering complex multi-disciplinary projects.
• Extensive experience in program management for major infrastructure projects, ideally within integrated delivery partner (or similar) models.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in complex, high-profile environments.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of contractual frameworks for collaborative delivery.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience managing government and public sector clients.

Why you’ll love working with us

• Flexible work arrangements, including alternative start/finish times, part-time, job-sharing and hybrid work options
• Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year         
• Flex public holidays – swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better
• Continuous learning and growth - lunch and learns, professional development courses, financial study assistance, 5 days paid study leave, global career opportunities

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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 2024. 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.