Senior Project Manager – Water & Mining Infrastructure

Overview

As a Senior Project Manager at AECOM, you lead end-to-end delivery of mining and water infrastructure projects, aligning scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, safety, and stakeholders with program objectives. You partner with directors, engineers, and clients to integrate projects into broader portfolios and drive performance from initiation to close-out. You’ll shape delivery strategies, oversee governance, and champion safety and constructability. This role offers impact across critical infrastructure and modernization initiatives.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work arrangements
• hybrid work options
• part-time and job-sharing options
• additional annual leave
• volunteer and representation leave
• flexible public holidays

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through full lifecycle from initiation to close-out
• Define and manage execution plans, budgets, schedules, resources, and governance
• Drive contractor performance across safety, productivity, quality, and compliance
• Oversee procurement, variations, cost forecasting and commercial negotiations
• Maintain oversight of cost, schedule, risk, change, and progress reporting for clients and leadership
• Lead risk management, assurance, change control, and governance processes
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure design integrity and quality
• Build relationships with clients, contractors, regulators and stakeholders
• Manage interfaces and dependencies to align with program priorities
• Champion a strong safety culture across design, procurement, construction and commissioning

Key requirements

• 10–15 years’ experience in project management and major project delivery
• Experience delivering mining and water infrastructure projects
• Experience in client-side and contractor-side environments
• Strong understanding of program management and multi-project portfolios
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, commercial, controls and construction
• Experience managing contractor performance including safety, quality and contractual compliance
• Strong project controls capability: cost, scheduling, forecasting, risk, change
• Experience with procurement, contract administration, variations, claims and negotiations
• Experience managing projects through design, construction, commissioning and handover
• Exposure to brownfield or operational environments is valued
• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or related discipline
• Delivery-focused mindset with stakeholder management skills and decision-making ability

• stakeholder management
• leadership of multidisciplinary teams
• strong decision-making
• project controls (cost, scheduling, risk, change)
• procurement and contract administration
• commercial negotiations and claims

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