Project Manager III

Job Description
AECOM is seeking a creative, highly talented Project Manager to join our practice and grow our NJ Architecture market.  This position will be located in our Clifton, New Jersey market. Our Project Managers work directly with the client and stakeholders to ensure project and program objectives are met. The successful candidate will demonstrate an affinity for maintaining and delivering high quality projects on time and within budgets while establishing and maintaining excellent client relations.
Responsibilities of the Project Manager are as follows:
Project/Practice Management
Manages the day-to-day operational aspects of a project, including the budget, base scope and additional services
Reviews deliverables prepared by the team
Assumes responsibility (in partnership with the Market Leader and Project Approver) for financial, technical and design excellence, overall quality and client satisfaction
Ensures project documents, including legal documents, contracts, and task orders are reviewed, approved, signed and filed per the AECOM project management framework
Manages one or more very complex projects
Project Accounting
Tracks and reports hours and manages project budget
Communications
Facilitates team and client meetings
Effectively communicates relevant project information to the client, team, and internal leadership
Delivers engaging, informative, and well-organized presentations
Teamwork
Consistently acknowledges, appreciates, and motivates both individual staff and project team
Effectively utilizes each team member to his/her fullest potential
Client Management
Manages day-to-day client interaction and expectations
Develops lasting relationships with clients and develops opportunities for new projects
Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative solutions
Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction
Leadership
Challenges others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model
AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture.  With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable, and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.  Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc., and many Fortune 500 companies.