Project Controls Senior Manager - AECOM

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AECOM is seeking a Senior Project Controls Manager to join our team Los Angeles, California. In this role you will lead efforts for external and internal program controls as you ensure scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk objectives for projects are responsibly achieved.

Additional responsibilities may include:

• Managing the Project Controls Team. 
• Coordinating with the Change Management Board with respect to change management decisions and escalations.
• Leading monthly Project Progress Reviews and reports against the required metrics with  the Program Director.
• Issuing monthly program progress reports and updating PMIS progress and performance dashboards.
• Coordinating with the Program Director to effectively support the delivery of the overall Program.
• Managing stakeholder relationships both internal and external to the program and working collaboratively with the stakeholder relations team.
• Managing other consultants in accordance with their contractual obligations to successfully deliver scope, cost, schedule, quality, and risk requirements.
• Managing the interface with the PMO Services and Technical Shared Services teams to ensure the appropriate resourcing, coordination, and integration.
• Coaching, mentoring, and supporting the career development of staff.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience with project controls or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 2 years of leadership

Preferred Requirements: 

• 15 years of professional experience including 5 years in a Project Controls leadership role.
• Able to demonstrate significant expertise in Project Controls and applicable technical areas to deliver complex programs.
• Demonstrated experience in managing multi-discipline team members and assessing the competency requirements of the team.
• Strong technical capability in program controls and knowledge of all project phases, including design, planning, construction, preferably for large program/projects.
• Demonstrable experience in managing stakeholder relationships and providing strategic level reporting to enable effective decision making.
• Familiarity of working in collaborative project environments
• Proficient stakeholder engagement and communication skills including the ability to facilitate meeting / workshops with stakeholders.

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AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits 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 absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

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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.

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