Assistant Project Manager

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate project activities, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Track progress, risks, actions, approvals, decisions, budgets, and performance; escalate issues as needed.
• Coordinate discipline interfaces, stakeholders, authority submissions, QA/QC, BIM, and document control.
• Support scope changes, meetings, reporting, project records, and lessons learned.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 3–7 years of relevant experience, including project management and/or design management exposure.
• Technical background in utilities, roads, or transportation infrastructure; engineering consultancy experience is essential.
• Good understanding of multidisciplinary design delivery, project lifecycle requirements, project planning, project controls, risk, and change management.
• Experience coordinating disciplines, stakeholders, and project interfaces.

Additional qualifications and skills

• Working knowledge of Abu Dhabi authority requirements, regulations, and approval processes; exposure to Dubai and Saudi Arabia is advantageous.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project; PMP or equivalent project management qualification is advantageous.

Work location model

• The posting identifies the work location model as on-site.
• New employees are required to attend in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.

Benefits and development

• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, paid leave, voluntary benefits, well-being resources, business travel insurance, retirement savings, and employee stock purchase plans, depending on employment status.
• AECOM describes training and development programs and opportunities to work on local and global projects.