Assistant Project Manager

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Support day-to-day management and coordination of multidisciplinary design projects.
• Develop and update programmes, milestones, deliverable schedules and resource requirements.
• Coordinate discipline interfaces and identify scope gaps, overlaps and dependencies.
• Track progress, risks, actions, approvals and decisions; escalate issues when needed.
• Support resource forecasting, budget monitoring, progress reporting and performance tracking.
• Identify scope changes and support variations and change requests.
• Coordinate with clients, authorities, subconsultants and project stakeholders.
• Support meetings with agendas, presentations, action tracking and follow-up.
• Coordinate QA/QC, BIM and document control processes.
• Support authority submissions and approvals; track dependencies.
• Maintain project information, correspondence, registers, trackers and records.
• Promote lessons learned and continuous improvement.

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 and transportation infrastructure.
• Previous engineering consultancy experience is essential.
• Good understanding of multidisciplinary design delivery and project lifecycle requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of project planning, project controls, risk and change management.
• Experience coordinating disciplines, stakeholders and project interfaces.
• Working knowledge of Abu Dhabi authority requirements, regulations and approval processes; Dubai and Saudi Arabia exposure is advantageous.
• Strong organizational, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
• PMP or equivalent project management qualification is advantageous.

About AECOM

Onboarding

• New hires are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.

Benefits

• Depending on employment status, benefits may include insurance, paid leave, flexible work options, well-being resources, travel insurance, retirement savings and employee stock purchase plans.