Project Manager Aviation

Responsibilities

The Project Manager will oversee the full life cycle of aviation projects, including planning, procurement, implementation, and close-out. They are responsible for managing budgets, schedules, and stakeholder communications while ensuring compliance with safety and operational standards.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture and possess at least five years of experience in complex infrastructure capital projects. The role requires the ability to obtain airport security clearance and travel to various Port Authority airport locations.

Skills

• Project management
• Aviation infrastructure
• Capital projects
• Construction management
• Procurement
• Stakeholder management
• Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Risk management
• Sustainability
• Asset management
• Safety compliance
• Design-build
• KPI tracking
• Contract administration
• Technical reporting

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• EAP
• 401k
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• AD&D
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Reward & recognition program
• Wellbeing benefits
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

About this role

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design,
engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving
quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many
curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and
deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Project Managers may support individual projects, multiple concurrent projects,
related workstreams, or elements of a broader Aviation program. PM resources are
expected to possess broad and complementary capabilities and may perform
multiple responsibilities identified below based upon their qualifications and
assigned work.

Role accountabilities:

* Manage assigned Aviation projects, programs, and studies across the full life
cycle, from initiation and planning through procurement, implementation,
turnover, and close-out.
* Provide project and program management support for capital, operating,
technology, sustainability, customer experience, asset management, safety,
and other Aviation initiatives under the applicable Task Order.
* Develop and manage project scopes, requirements, schedules, budgets, and
implementation plans to meet Aviation's program and project objectives.

* Prepare or coordinate RFPs, scopes of work, procurement packages, work
orders, and related documents, including for Design-Build initiatives where
applicable.
* Monitor scope, schedule, budget, and performance, identify variances, and
coordinate corrective actions.
* Review project schedules and recovery plans, including risks, dependencies,
and operational impacts.
* Develop, track, and report KPIs for Aviation core programs such as
Sustainability, Customer Experience, Technology and Innovation, Asset
Management, and Safety.
* Identify, track, and report project risks and issues and support mitigation
and recovery strategies.
* Confirm project scope and requirements with key stakeholders, including
objectives, operational and technical needs, and desired outcomes.
* Ensure stakeholder participation throughout the project life cycle,
facilitating communication, decision-making, and issue resolution.
* Coordinate with internal stakeholders, including Operations, Maintenance,
Engineering, Technology, Safety, Security, Finance, Procurement, and airport
management, as applicable.
* Coordinate with Engineering, designers, consultants, and contractors to
deliver quality, timely, cost-effective, and constructible designs and
deliverables.
* Coordinate third-party involvement, including utilities, airlines, tenants,
and governmental entities, as applicable.
* Coordinate Rights of Entry, force accounts, permits, utility and access
agreements, and other approvals, as required.
* Maintain documentation supporting Aviation's planning, Capital Plan, funding,
procurement, reporting, and close-out processes.

* Manage projects performed under work order contracts, keeping work orders
within authorized limits and using contract capacity effectively.
* Monitor consultant and contractor deliverables against project requirements,
schedules, budgets, and contracts.
* Support senior staff in coordinating interfaces among projects, programs, and
internal and external stakeholders.
* Coordinate interdependencies among Aviation initiatives to support effective
planning, integration, and resource use.
* Project Administration, Controls and Reporting
* Provide project administrative support, maintaining correspondence, records,
schedules, budgets, forecasts, approvals, and commitments.
* Prepare and maintain project management documentation, including plans,
status reports, meeting minutes, logs, trackers, and dashboards.
* Coordinate project meetings, document decisions and action items, and track
them through resolution.
* Track deliverables, milestones, approvals, and outstanding actions to support
timely completion.
* Prepare status reports, dashboards, presentations, and briefing
materials covering progress, KPIs, scope, schedule, budget, risks, and
required management actions.
* Support data collection, analysis, and performance reporting to inform
Aviation management decisions.
* Support quality assurance and quality control activities, including review of
project documentation, technical deliverables, and data.

Qualifications & Experience:

* Bachelor’s degree in engineering or architecture from an accredited college
or university.
* Minimum of five (5) years project management experience in managing
concurrent, complex infrastructure capital/operating projects, preferably at
airports; demonstrated experience supporting planning, design, procurement of
construction contracts, and construction management/administration resulting
in successful asset turnover.
* Possess valid driver’s license.
* Ability to travel to one or more Port Authority airports, as directed.
* Ability to pass extensive background checks to obtain airport identification
to secured areas.

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We
believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills
based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to
carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you,
you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.
Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the
world around you. 

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

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About Arcadis

Professional Services · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in Amsterdam, Nederland