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Job Description
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Program Controls is the application of Project Controls in a Program Management context. This includes the added complexity and interactions demanded from Programs such as Government legislation, Political obligations, Legacy creation, multi-partner KPIs, cross industry body creation and/or collaboration, contract incentivising, and finance partnering.
With a focus on our Ireland region, you will lead Project Controls efforts, working closely with key clients and stakeholders to turn their visionary goals into tangible successes.
Here’s what you’ll do:
1. Manage and coordinate Program Controls for programs that are large in size, are of high strategic value and/or have a high level of execution complexity.
2. Provide senior-level oversight for program controls activities, ensuring alignment with the strategic objectives set by senior leadership.
3. Lead the coordination efforts across multiple projects within the program, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with overarching program objectives.
4. Proactively identify and address interdependencies between projects.
5. Provide expert guidance and oversight to project controls teams, ensuring the effective management of individual project elements.
6. Facilitate clear and concise communication between project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership, providing insightful and actionable updates.
Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
1. A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field such as project management, engineering, business, or a related discipline.
2. Extensive senior level experience gained within Program Controls.
3. An ability to provide technical leadership and to set the strategic direction for program controls on an active program, ensuring alignment with the organization's broader objectives.
4. Deep understanding in all underlying concepts and principles of program controls, paired with extensive experience to provide insights, thought leadership and the evolution of the discipline.
5. Provides visionary guidance, efficiently oversee and elevate program controls processes, tools, methodologies, and decision-making within programs to ensure not only their successful execution but also their alignment with organizational objectives.
6. Demonstrates a high level of capability in establishing, managing and maintaining a robust and realistic baseline, assessing performance, providing meaningful insightful analysis to support proactive management of the program, facilitating deliberate, evidence-based decision-making in order to enhance delivery confidence, manage risks, and provide assurance in program outcomes.
7. A proficient leader, inspiring and guiding program controls teams, providing a clear vision, direction, and effective guidance for goal attainment.
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.
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About AECOM
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.
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.
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