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Job Description
Start Here. Grow Here.
At AECOM, we are seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join our Dublin office and support the successful delivery of complex capital projects across a range of sectors.
The Opportunity
As an Assistant Project Manager, you will play a key role throughout the full project lifecycle, supporting projects from early-stage concept and design development through procurement, construction, commissioning, and completion. You will work closely with experienced project managers, clients, consultants, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
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Supporting the management and delivery of projects from inception through to completion, including design coordination, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
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Working alongside Senior Project Managers and multidisciplinary teams to deliver capital projects across both live operational environments and new-build developments.
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Supporting day-to-day client relationships and acting as a key point of contact, ensuring technical, operational, commercial, and programme requirements are clearly understood and effectively addressed.
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Contributing to project management commissions, with responsibility for supporting quality, programme, cost, change, risk, and stakeholder management.
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Coordinating and monitoring project activities across moderately complex and critical projects, ensuring delivery remains aligned with agreed milestones, project requirements, and operational constraints.
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Assisting with the preparation and management of project programmes, budgets, risk registers, reports, meeting records, and other project controls.
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Supporting procurement and contract administration activities, working with project teams and supply-chain partners to facilitate effective project delivery.
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Contributing to the ongoing performance and continuous improvement of the project management team by sharing knowledge, developing best practices, and supporting efficient delivery methodologies.
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Building practical experience across RIBA Stages 0–7, with particular emphasis on project coordination, procurement, construction delivery, commissioning, and handover.
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Developing strong relationships with clients and project stakeholders while contributing to a collaborative, professional, and high-performing project environment.
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
The successful candidate will have experience within the buildings sector and a strong interest in developing their career in project management. At Assistant Project Manager level, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate the following:
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A relevant graduate qualification in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
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Practical experience supporting the delivery of building or capital projects, ideally across design, procurement, construction, and commissioning stages.
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Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple project activities and work effectively with clients, consultants, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams.
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An understanding of project controls, including programme, cost, risk, quality, change, and stakeholder management.
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A proactive approach to problem-solving, with a willingness to take responsibility and develop professionally within a project management environment.
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APM membership or affiliation would be advantageous.
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.
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.
