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AECOM seeks a Senior Project Manager in Transit Architecture to join our NY Metro Buildings + Places leadership team. This role will focus on driving the growth of professional services related to passenger stations, multi-modal transportation infrastructure, and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) within the local region, with occasional involvement in national projects.
The ideal candidate will be an architect with deep technical knowledge of building technology and expertise in the design and delivery of innovative transit facilities, including rail, light rail, and bus rapid transit. Additionally, the candidate will nurture a local multi-disciplinary team of architects, engineers, urban strategists, and specialty sub-consultants, while also engaging with national and global experts to ensure the delivery of efficient, equitable, and inspiring transportation facilities.
The candidate will be responsible for executing professional project work, contributing to winning new projects, cultivating strong client relationships within the NY Metro area, and helping to grow AECOM’s portfolio of transit systems, stations, infrastructure, and TOD projects. This position is supported by our regional operational and technical teams and reports to the NYM Transportation Studio Principal. The candidate will also collaborate with the Global Head of Stations and TOD to leverage broader expertise and resources.

Candidate will demonstrate the ability to: 

• Manage a portfolio of clients with multiple projects, ensuring successful project execution and positive relationships
• Lead and mentor senior-level architects within the practice, as well as collaborate with partner and sub-consulting design firms
• Support business development and marketing efforts for proposals and presentations
• Lead and manage project teams to ensure successful project delivery, including oversight of project schedules and budgets
• Develop strategies, prepare proposals, assist in negotiating contracts, and execute projects in conjunction with the Principal-in-Charge
• Provide oversight and direction for all phases of project work, ensuring adherence to the company’s Quality Assurance program
• Build and maintain relationships with key officials of client agencies, organizations, and partner companies
• Bring design creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve both routine and complex problems, articulate objectives, and requirements, organize project approaches, and develop and implement standards, guidelines, procedures, and protocols
• Deliver revenues assigned from specific clients, ensuring consistent profit margins, and avoiding write-downs or multiplier erosion
• Manage more complex clients and projects, often involving Risk Triggering Factors (RTF)
• Exercise decision-making authority in recognizing risk and uncertainty, with plans to mitigate and eliminate such risks
• Direct staff to minimize exposure to claims and ensure projects are completed without significant issues
• Work with the project Principal-in-Charge throughout all phases of the project to obtain client satisfaction and ensure financial project performance
• Communicate effectively with clients and project teams, including public agencies
• Facilitate team communication, coordination, and collaboration to support assigned projects
• Manage teams across business lines, in remote locations, and/or management of subcontractors
• Collaborate with and mentor less experienced team members and Project Managers

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. 

Minimum Requirements: 

• BA/BS in Architecture plus ten 10 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including 4 years of leadership.
• Professional License as Architect (RA, AIA)
• Project management experience managing multi-discipline architectural engineering building and facilities design projects or demonstrated equivalency of experience/education
• Recent experience working with MTA, AMTRAK, NJT and/or LIRR, agencies

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong relationships with regional transit agencies
• Professional experience utilizing industry standard software such as Revit, Autocad, MS Excel and Word
• Design/Build experience, DBIA certification is a plus
• LEED Accreditation is a plus
• PMP Certification is a plus
• Strong communication and leadership skills 

• Relocation is not available for this position
• Sponsorship is not available for this position

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.