Senior Project Manager:Data Centers

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Burlington Mills, Dublin, VA, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Consulting
We are the trusted global infrastructure leader.
The Role
The Senior Project Manager will oversee the entire project lifecycle of data center projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget while managing teams and client communications effectively.
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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

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.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

At AECOM, we are currently seeking a Senior Project Manager (Data Centres) to join our Dublin office.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Project Manager specialising in data centres, you will lead the successful delivery of mission-critical projects. You will be responsible for managing the full project lifecycle — from early-stage concept and design development through procurement, construction, and commissioning — ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Leading the end-to-end delivery of data centre and colocation projects, from initial concept and design through procurement, construction, and commissioning
  • Directing multidisciplinary teams to successfully deliver complex, mission-critical projects in line with programme, cost, and quality targets
  • Serving as the primary client interface, ensuring clear communication and alignment with technical, operational, and commercial objectives
  • Assuming full accountability for project outcomes, including risk management, change control, and governance across all phases
  • Managing contractor performance and site operations, including oversight of construction activities and commissioning within both live and new-build environments
  • Controlling project budgets, schedules, and reporting processes, maintaining strong financial discipline and programme certainty throughout

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our primary markets, along with the following qualifications and experience:

  • Postgraduate qualification, ideally in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
  • In the process of pursuing Chartered status with one of the following institutions: SCSI / RICS / CIOB / RIBA / Engineers Ireland (EI)
  • Affiliation with the Association for Project Management (APM) would be a benefit

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

 

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. 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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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 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, 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Skills Required

  • Postgraduate qualification in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
  • In the process of pursuing Chartered status with recognized institutions
  • Affiliation with the Association for Project Management

AECOM Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AECOM and has not been reviewed or approved by AECOM.

  • Healthcare Strength Multiple national medical options (UnitedHealthcare/Surest) and regional HMOs (Kaiser) cover in‑network preventive care at 100%, with added programs like Color cancer screening and Carrum Health surgery support at little or no cost. A medical expense estimator and varied plan designs help employees tailor coverage to anticipated needs.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid Parental Leave offers up to four weeks at 100% pay for all new parents (birth, adoption, foster, surrogacy), and five days of subsidized backup child care via Care.com adds practical support. Company‑paid short‑term disability provides income protection for up to 26 weeks, complementing family-related needs.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility An Employee Stock Purchase Plan enables buying company stock at a 12% discount with payroll contributions up to 10%. This straightforward access to discounted equity can augment total compensation over time.

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The Company
HQ: Dallas, TX
51,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1990

What We Do

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients’ complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2024. Learn more at aecom.com.

Why Work With Us

Together, we thrive. We’re committed to being the best workplace in our industry – fostering respect, community, and innovation so our people can thrive, drive better outcomes for our clients, and fulfill our purpose of delivering a better world.

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