Infrastructure Programme Management Director

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At AECOM, we are currently recruiting for an Infrastructure Programme Management Director to join us at our Dublin office.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities;

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our infrastructure markets along with having the following qualifications and experience:

Programme Requirements, Standards & Performance

• Coordinate End-to-End Programme Management: Lead and coordinate programme activities, collaborating closely with internal delivery teams, external consultants, and contractors to ensure efficient delivery.
• Financial Oversight: Own the programme budget, including financial planning, regular reporting, and optimal allocation of resources.
• Performance Tracking: Define, monitor, and report on delivery milestones and KPIs to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage proactively with key aviation stakeholders, delivery partners, and internal functions to understand the wider programme landscape and ensure strategic alignment.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure all programme activities comply with internal governance processes, preparing quality submissions to progress through project control points and enable assured delivery.
• Process Excellence: Implement best practice procedures, ensuring strong programme controls are in place to drive performance, value, and efficiency.

Programme Delivery

• Delivery Oversight & Quality Assurance: Apply expert judgement and oversight throughout the programme lifecycle; ensure rigorous QA either directly or in coordination with the Head of Quality Assurance.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify, escalate, and support the resolution of risks and issues, maintaining momentum and programme integrity.
• Governance Leadership: Establish and manage robust programme governance structures, ensuring consistent application across all delivery teams.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure programme goals remain aligned with business strategy, portfolio objectives, and wider functional briefs.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives, lean delivery methods, and value engineering to reduce cost and risk, and maximise contingency.
• Delegated Authority: Exercise delegated authority on low- to medium-risk projects in accordance with portfolio governance frameworks.
• Regulatory Compliance & Consents: Lead the acquisition of necessary consents and ensure full compliance with regulatory and environmental commitments.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Team Leadership: Manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, including project controls, design, and delivery consultants, to achieve programme goals effectively.
• Resource Efficiency: Oversee resource planning across the programme, ensuring effective allocation to meet deadlines and deliverables.
• Critical Oversight: Constructively challenge project manager forecasts and third-party supplier information to ensure accuracy and accountability.
• Health & Safety Leadership: Foster a strong culture of health, safety, and well-being, promoting best practices and behavioural safety across the programme and organisation.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a key point of contact for high-level stakeholder engagement, providing updates, managing expectations, and ensuring collaborative delivery

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our insfratructure markets along with having the following qualifications and experience:

• Experience in Programme delivery across Infrastructure programmes of significant size and complexity, with at least 5 years of senior management experience.
• Must have experience from inception to completion of complex high value airport/aviation projects, preferably in the delivery of airfield infrastructure including runway/apron/taxiway development and rehab.
• Extensive knowledge of and understanding of capital project and programme delivery and how this supports and integrates with a wider high functioning environment and capital investment plan.
• Strong and demonstrable leadership and management skills, including project management, and procurement.
• Strong planning, governance and delivery skills with the ability to set team goals, objectives and priorities, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for all direct reports.
• Tangible experience of documenting best practice delivery, policies and standards.