Senior Hydropower Project Manager - AECOM

How will you make your mark?

At AECOM, our work in providing access to clean water enables communities to thrive and ecosystems to flourish, contributing to a resilient future. As a global leader in infrastructure consulting, we are at the forefront of significant water projects, with over 6,000 of the industry’s best minds driving innovation and technical excellence. Together, we develop solutions that are not only best in the world, but best for the world.

With an acceleration in infrastructure investment, your bold ideas and global expertise have never been more crucial. Join our dynamic team, where innovation, career growth, and collaboration are celebrated. Enjoy the freedom to grow with customizable career paths, water-specific technical and professional development and the potential to contribute to transformational projects worldwide.

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Dams: With a proud history spanning over 85 years and thousands of successful projects, our expertise in dam and reservoir engineering is unmatched. From feasibility studies to design, construction, and maintenance, we cover every aspect of the process, ensuring the longevity and safety of critical water infrastructure. As part of our team, you'll contribute to our legacy, bringing innovative solutions to life and making a meaningful impact on global water resources.  

Are you a passionate and experienced Project Manager who wants to contribute to challenging and interesting projects that provide direct value to our communities? Do you have expertise in the hydropower space and are looking to join a high-performing team? With recurrent project wins and a strong pipeline of work, we are seeking a motivated Senior Hydropower Project Manager to join our AECOM Dams and Hydropower Team.

The Hydropower and Dams Team is a center of technical excellence and often wins work purely on the strength of its people and its great reputation. We offer a great team culture focused on participation and inclusion. We want our people to grow and develop through working together on exciting and complex projects.

By joining our team, you will get mentoring and guidance from our industry leading experts in the fields of geology, geotechnical, structural, hydraulics & hydrology, hydromechanical, and electrical design. You will get the opportunity to mentor technical staff and we will support your involvement in the hydropower industry.

The responsibilities of this position include:

• Leading the conceptual to detailed design of hydropower and pumped storage projects
• Perform as Capture Manager for pre-positioning and preparing proposals
• Inspection, investigation, and condition assessment of existing hydropower and dams projects including review and surveillance of monitoring data.
• Perform Alternatives Analyses, Feasibility Studies, and Detailed Designs with strong knowledge of design drawings and technical specifications.
• Keeps informed of new developments and requirements affecting the organization for the purpose of recommending changes in programs and applications.
• Client liaison and experience with technical review boards.
• Project management of multidisciplinary teams and the engagement of AECOM’s operations/finance teams.
• Mentoring and technical development of junior staff, supporting them to achieve technical success.
• Makes decisions independently on technical problems and methods and represents the organization in conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate work.
• Supervision received is essentially administrative, with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.

Qualities in a qualified candidate:

You enjoy working in teams and aspire to progress into advanced roles based on your knowledge. You enjoy being accountable for your work and influential in the project’s performance. You enjoy developing and nurturing relationships within AECOM and the local industry, whether through project work, client initiatives, or industry associations. You are positive, and see challenges as opportunities to innovate, collaborate and grow. You are an active team member and are eager to take on new and different challenges.

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS degree + 10 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Valid U.S Driver’s License is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• BA/BS degree in Civil/Structural/Mechanical/Electrical/Geotechnical Engineering
• 15+ years or more of relevant experience with hydropower and pumped storage projects
• Active participation in NHA, HydroVision, Clean Currents, CEATI, ASDSO, USSD, and/or ICOLD
• PMP
• Strong PM skills, ability to deliver multidisciplinary projects on schedule at the as-sold margin
• Ability to effectively mentor Deputy PMs
• Strong writing and communication skills
• Business development for new and existing clients, prepare engineering services proposals, cost estimates, and schedules
• Must be a resourceful, highly organized professional with attention to people
• Strong commitment to ensuring safe project execution

• AECOM is interested in every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States. Permanent residency sponsorship is available for current H1-B visa holders in the United States.
• Relocation is not available with this position.
• Occasional project travel may be required.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.

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