AECOM
Associate Risk Manager / Project Director
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Associate Risk Manager / Project Director
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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
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Job Description
Start here, grow here
We are recruiting for a Project Director to join our growing risk team at either our London, Manchester, Birmingham, or Bristol offices.
Responsibilities
As a Project Director, you will be responsible for leading the risk management capability for AECOM’s major infrastructure projects across a broad range of sectors.
Working as part of the AECOM Integrated Programme Controls team, the Project Director will need to be comfortable with engaging with senior stakeholders and customers. They will work closely with a range of internal, client, and sub-contractor staff to:
- Develop an accurate understanding of risk exposure.
- Implement appropriate governance.
- Support effective decision making.
In this senior position:
- You will manage an established team of risk consultants, supporting various capital projects across the UK.
- You will have opportunities to support AECOM’s vast number of projects and programmes globally.
Key Tasks:
- Act as the risk management lead for high-value projects and programmes.
- Engage with project teams to ensure effective implementation of risk management.
- Provide direct risk management input to bids and proposals to secure new business.
- Perform risk assurance checks to ensure the quality of project and programme risk management.
- Communicate key project and programme risk management data to senior leaders.
- Produceive comprehensive risk reports for informed decision making.
- Coach and mentor staff in risk management best practices.
- Facilitate the identification, assessment, and prioritisation of risks.
- Develop robust:
- Risk Registers
- Risk Management Plans
- Risk Mitigation Plans
- Conduct Quantitative Risk Analysis (QCRA and QSRA), utilising techniques such as Monte-Carlo to establish project contingency levels.
- Design and implement risk management frameworks for projects and programmes.
- Support cost, scheduling, project controls, and change management teams as appropriate.
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Qualifications & Requirements
What we're looking for?
As the ideal candidate, you will have:
- Experience working within our primary markets.
- Preferable experience and qualifications, including:
- A Bachelor’s Degree from a recognised and accredited university, or hold a risk management qualification (MOR, APM Risk, IRM).
- Proven experience and excellent working knowledge gained in a multi-discipline project environment.
- Proficient use of Industry Risk Management tools such as ARM, Xactium, RiskHive or Predict.
- Demonstrable experience in conducting Quantitative Risk Analysis (QCRA & QSRA) using tools like Safran, Primavera Risk Analyser, or @RISK.
- Competency in implementing Risk Management processes aligned with ISO 31000, Institute of Risk Management, or Association of Project Management methodologies.
- Experience of managing a team of risk professionals.
- Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors.
- Good task facilitation skills.
- Knowledge of engineering and construction management.
- Working knowledge of current methodologies and tools related to managing projects.
Additional Information
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, as it enhances our team.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact ReasonableAdjustments@aecom.com.
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, providing professional services across the project lifecycle—from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our clients trust us to tackle complex challenges in transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment. Our global team—united by our shared purpose—drives sustainability, equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI), and environmental, social, and governance commitments. As part of the Fortune 500, the professional services business generated $16.1 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2025.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
- Flexible hybrid work options in offices, remote locations, or client sites.
- Dynamic, inclusive workplace where authenticity is celebrated.
- Industry-leading technology, transformational projects, and impactful work.
- Broad compensation, benefits, and well-being programs for diverse needs.
- Equal Opportunity Employer prioritising each person’s potential and growth.
Benefits include legal but not exhaustive:
At AECOM, join a global, publicly traded firm with:
- Access to the latest industry technology and innovative thinking.
- Flexibility and transformational work with meaningful impact.
- Access to career development, equity, diversity, and inclusion programs.
- Commitment to environmental, social, and governance priorities (ESG).
ADA Accommodations:
We are a Disability Confident Employer and offer interviews to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet:
- The minimum/essential criteria for the role.
- Those desiring to apply under the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please email ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com.
All submitted information remains confidential in accordance with EEO guidelines.
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