Senior Project Manager:Civil Aviation Infrastructure
$150,000–$200,000 year
HybridDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Oversee and monitor project delivery for a major, multi-year capital investment programme transforming a nationally significant infrastructure asset, ensuring effective management of schedule, interfaces, costs, variations, contracts, and risks. Lead and manage a team of Project Managers responsible for individual project delivery within the programme, providing direction, oversight, and support to implement appropriate project management processes and performance measures. Develop and maintain comprehensive resource plans, RACI matrices, and governance frameworks while coordinating design consultants, technical teams, and contractors. Chair design review meetings, manage change control processes, and prepare regular performance reports covering progress, milestones, and risks. Manage the project relationship with the Airport Transformation Manager and other key stakeholders, ensuring projects meet agreed performance, quality, safety, and governance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years' experience delivering major civil infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle
- Extensive experience working with the NEC Suite of Contracts in a client, contractor, or consultancy environment
- Proven experience delivering projects within the aviation sector or other operationally complex, live infrastructure environments
- Demonstrated success delivering major capital infrastructure programmes with responsibility for cost, schedule, risk, governance, and stakeholder management
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring Project Managers
- Strong client-facing, commercial, and leadership skills with experience managing senior stakeholder relationships
- A minimum of 7 years' experience within the construction and infrastructure sector, including the successful delivery of aviation and/or other major projects of comparable scale, complexity, and operational criticality
- Demonstrated understanding of working within live operational airport environments, with a strong appreciation of the associated safety, operational, and stakeholder management requirements
- Proven experience managing and overseeing project delivery on-site, with a hands-on approach to construction and infrastructure project execution
- Extensive experience in developing, documenting, and implementing construction project management frameworks, policies, procedures, and best-practice standards
- Strong track record of delivering major construction and asset delivery projects safely, on schedule, within budget, and to the required quality standards
- Experience acting in a client-side project management role, representing the interests of the contracting entity throughout the project lifecycle
- Proven ability to engage and influence a broad range of stakeholders at all organisational levels, driving process improvements, governance enhancements, and best-practice project delivery outcomes
- Previous experience using the NEC Suite of contracts as a client, contractor or subcontractor
- Previous experience in an Aviation setting or similarly constrainted environment
- Attendance on site required four days per week and one day per week available for remote working
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working within our primary infrastructure markets
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