Senior Project Manager (Security and Resilience)

Company Description

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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

As a Senior Project Manager within AECOM’s London-based Security & Resilience project management team, you will be responsible for leading and managing secure built-environment and construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring their successful delivery while continuing to develop your specialised knowledge.

Your role will involve overseeing significant phases of projects, guiding junior team members, and fostering client and consultant relationships. Additionally, you will support business development activities and contribute to AECOM's team and organisational growth.

You will join our London Security & Resilience Project Management team, which forms a key part of our Central and Local Government market sector. You will be working in secure environments with a range of government departments at the heart of national security. You will have, or be prepared to achieve, security clearance up to Developed Vetting.

We are looking for someone who brings energy and insight, ideally with consultancy experience or a background working within a Government client organisation. 

Depending on the specific requirements of each project, the role may require you to be based on site for part of the week, and you will need to be prepared to travel to project locations across the UK and internationally.

Lead and Deliver: Drive project delivery on our multi-disciplinary commissions to meet time, budget and quality requirements, while fostering collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors and team members.

Examples of duties include:

• Lead the delivery of project management team outputs
• Ensure the project team have the appropriate level of security clearance for the project
• Implement a security management plan and ensure compliance of the project team
• Lead internal AECOM project team meetings and external client team meetings
• Co‑ordinate, review and ensure sign‑off deliverables  
• Lead the management of multi-disciplinary design teams
• Lead the management of tender documents, appraisals and negotiations
• Lead the formulation and management of construction contracts
• Provide financial oversight, resource management, strategic guidance, audit and review

Client-Centric Excellence: Strengthen client relationships by delivering an exceptional service, aligning project outcomes with client objectives and contributing to the business’s growth.

Examples of duties include:

• Lead the development of strong relationships with clients
• Be the main interface with AECOM clients on specified projects
• Progress business development opportunities with existing and new clients
• Support ‘winning’ clients, ensuring quality outputs and professional behaviours

Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support junior members of our team of 45 are in their career development, contribute to talent development initiatives and champion a positive, high-performance team culture.

Examples of duties include:

• Provide effective support, supervision and motivation of Project Managers and junior staff
• Ensure staff have current and relevant training
• Provide leadership within the project management business
• Provide leadership and mentoring to the Security & Resilience team
• Active involvement in recruitment and retention activities
• Ensure you complete all relevant training

Industry Engagement and Growth: Support bids and business development activities, engage with industry forums and networking events, and take ownership of your professional growth and knowledge-sharing within the organisation.

Examples of duties include:

• Progress business development opportunities 
• Support ‘winning’ clients as part of business development

• Engage in recruitment activities (scope candidates, review candidates, interview and provide recommendations)
• Formulate fee proposals

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just design infrastructure; we uplift communities and enhance lives.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, workstreams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrates confident and engaging presentation skills, effectively delivering complex information to diverse audiences.
• Strong written skills including producing reports, meeting notes, drafting clear actions, project execution plans and risk registers and mitigation strategies
• Demonstrate leadership potential and good client relationship management.
• Passionate about delivering high-quality consulting services, and comfortable in the role of consultant.
• Be proactive, solution-oriented and adaptable to changing circumstances

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering projects within the Security & Resilience sector
• Experience working within a consultancy or government organisation
• NEC Accredited or, as a minimum, experience in administering NEC Contracts
• Experience and technical knowledge of secure spaces within the built environment or construction industry.
• Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, CIOB, APM) achieved or a commitment to achieve one.

Additional Information

To succeed in this role you will need to be either DV cleared, have held DV clearance, or have the ability to get DV cleared.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

 

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 2025. 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 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, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.