Associate Project Manager:Data Centers

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At AECOM, we are currently seeking an Associate Project Manager (Data Centres) to join our Dublin office.

The Opportunity

As an Associate Project Manager specialising in data centres and colocation facilities, you will support the successful delivery of mission-critical projects. You will be involved throughout the full project lifecycle - from early-stage concept and design development through procurement, construction, and commissioning - ensuring projects meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Overseeing a portfolio of clients and delivering multiple concurrent data centre projects
• Driving revenue growth through repeat business by ensuring consistent, high-quality project execution
• Achieving and maintaining targeted profit margins across all assigned projects
• Delivering projects without financial write-downs or margin erosion
• Managing projects involving Risk Triggering Factors (RTFs), proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues
• Leading complex client engagements and high-value, technically demanding projects
• Exercising decision-making authority to guide project teams in identifying risks and implementing effective mitigation strategies
• Directing teams to operate efficiently while minimising exposure to contractual claims
• Supervising and mentoring Project Managers overseeing multiple projects or large-scale programmes

What We’re Looking For

The successful candidate will bring experience within the buildings sector, along with the following qualifications and professional credentials:

• A postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
• Currently working towards Chartered status with one of the following professional bodies: RICS / CIOB / ICE / RIBA / Engineers Ireland
• Membership of, or affiliation with, the Association for Project Management (APM) would be advantageou

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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.

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