Senior Project Manager - Construction Logistics Services

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

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

Are you a Senior Project Manager looking to work on building projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last?

If so, we are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in London to work on one of our Central London mixed-use commercial and residential developments. You will be joining a team of like-minded experts who have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions.

About Our Team:

Our AECOM Construction and Logistics Services (CLS) team in London has vast experience of planning, managing and generating solutions for construction projects. We work with clients from the inception of projects to ensure that the delivery plans are achievable, and all practical factors have been considered. We have an in-depth understanding of the logistical aspects of developing a masterplan. We have a close eye on detail identifying potential risks early and developing mitigation strategies to prevent delays and cost overruns.

We work on projects across the UK to help tackle some of the country's biggest logistical masterplan challenges. They understand that the more coordination, logistics planning, and organisation, the less likely something is to go wrong. They realise the absence of site logistics planning can lead to bottlenecks and impact a project's masterplan's completion date in the long term.

Due to increased demand from our clients, we are looking for individuals with front-end construction experience, contract administration experience, and a balanced, robust, and reasonable approach to construction, procurement, and delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

You will need to manage and take ownership of all aspects of the project, proactively engaging with the client, construction and design teams to drive the project forward. You will be required to prepare succinct and accurate reports that look forward and identify clear actions and recommendations. Working as part of a team, you will be required to positively engage with the project management and design team and work collaboratively to address risks and avoid claims and disputes whilst maintaining meticulous records to allow you to quickly respond to issues arising and form an informed and balanced opinion having due regard to the building contract

Additional responsibilities

• Generate phasing logistics plans to show how projects could be undertaken and constructed safely and efficiently based on the information available.
• Produce Outline Construction Management Plans as well as Site Demolition and Plot specific Logistic Plans, Outline Highway Traffic Plans (TM) in line with the masterplan infrastructure needs coordinated with other statutory services day to day operations within the vicinity of the project.
• Produce Contractor Rules Books on how the Contractors are to behave, access and manage their works so as not to unduly trouble external parties in and around the development.
• Develop Construction Programmes and be able to use ASTA PowerProject and MS Project.
• Attend Client meetings and demonstrate presentation skills (including visual presentation) to inform the Client's team of methodology and logistics.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Qualification - ideally Construction / Engineering/ Master's Degree
• Chartered Status with the MCIOB or other equivalent institution

Additional Requirements:

• Experience on large scale developments contractor side, solving logistical constraints at the pre-construction stage.
• Have experience of dealing with Local Planning Authorities, Clients / Developers, Planning Specialists, and Principal Contractors - to work collaboratively.
• Able to generate Stakeholder Plans in conjunction with the client communication teams to deal with correspondence from external parties.
• Can write Scopes and Programmes from design information.
• Produce a fully logically linked programme from procurement inclusive of design, approvals, lead in periods and construction activities.
• Able to interrogate construction schedules and programmes; monitor tender and pre-construction progress against established schedules.
• Ability to produce formal reports and documents which clearly set out complex issues and recommendations.

Additional Information

Your Benefits Will Include:

Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join AECOM, as well as receive a competitive salary, you'll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements.

Core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, company pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, access to an electric car HPP scheme, a rewarding AECOM share-save scheme, £3k bike-to-work scheme and an annual professional membership fee. You can also choose from a wide range of other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle e.g. dental, gym, saving vouchers.

You'll also be able to give back to communities with up to two paid CSR days each year. Through our charity, The AECOM Foundation, you can volunteer to support children in developing countries. And if you're a member of the Reserve Forces you'll receive an additional 15 days paid leave for training commitments.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there's never been a better time to be at AECOM! 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.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

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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 $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.