Company Description
About Enterprise Capabilities
Fundamental to our
Think and Act Globally
strategy and digital adoption, Enterprise Capabilities (EC) is AECOM's primary vehicle for workshare. Operating across geographic boundaries and time-zones, EC partners with regional and General Business Line project teams to provide technical expertise, accelerate delivery and keep AECOM competitive in the industry.
With a team of over **** technical professionals located across nine countries and remote technical anchors, EC teams are trusted to deliver high-quality, specialist services that help to fill capability gaps, resourcing needs and technical constraints on projects of all scopes and sizes.
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Job Description
We are in search of a skilled and experienced Water Infrastructure PM/DM to lead our design team within a dynamic consultancy environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in the design and management on complex infrastructure, ideally hydropower or pumped storage, dams, heavy civil, underground works or major conveyance systems.
This role demands a professional who is adept at overseeing complex design processes, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality infrastructure solutions on major multi-disciplinary water infrastructure programmes in support of end clients and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Project & Design Leadership in Civil Infrastructure:
Lead the design process for civil infrastructure projects, focusing on hydropower or pumped storage, dams, heavy civil, underground works or major conveyance systems, from project planning to execution and closure.
Mobilise a multi-country delivery team across civil, structures, geotech, hydraulics/hydrology,



tunnelling/underground plus digital/BIM. Confirm discipline leads, interface owners plus handoffs.
Define scope plus control it. Convert programme needs into executable work packages with clear assumptions, exclusions plus deliverables. Manage change control.
Develop project strategies and plans that align with project objectives and client needs.
Build the delivery plan. Maintain staffing forecasts plus milestone tracking aligned to programme dates. Own action tracking plus weekly status reporting.
Guide the project team through complex technical challenges, ensuring innovative and practical solutions.
Multidisciplinary Team Coordination:
Manage and inspire multidisciplinary design teams, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment across civil, structures, geotech, hydraulics/hydrology, tunnelling/underground plus digital/BIM.
Ensure seamless integration of various engineering disciplines in the design process, coordinating across grading, drainage, structural systems plus seepage control. Coordinate underground geometry plus access constraints to reduce rework plus short-notice .turnarounds.
Coordinate with other department heads to allocate resources effectively and meet project demands.
Coordinate with various EC offices for Multidisciplinary and/or Multicentre projects .
Confirm digital tools plus workflows, including CDE/ACC, model standards, drawing standards,



file structures plus review cycles. Maintain predictable model production plus drawing production.
Design Process Management
Oversee the design stages from concept to final delivery, ensuring adherence to project timelines and specifications.
Manage technical interfaces across packages. Confirm alignment on design criteria, key inputs, geometry tie-ins, modelling exchanges plus quantity basis to prevent downstream clashes.
Monitor the progress of design work, identifying and resolving any issues that arise.
Conduct regular review meetings to assess design progress and make necessary adjustments.
Quality Assurance and Standards Compliance:
Implement and maintain high standards of design quality, ensuring compliance with AECOM's quality principles, industry regulations and client specifications.
Implement the QA/QC approach plus technical governance. Plan checks plus reviews, confirm close-out plus verify submissions are package-complete plus ready to issue.
Regularly review and assess design outputs for technical accuracy and innovation.
Stakeholder Engagement and Support:
Act as a primary point of contact for internal teams and external stakeholders regarding design matters.
Provide expert advice and support to project teams, enhancing design outcomes and efficiency.
Provide clear status updates that translate technical issues into schedule plus cost impacts. Manage expectations with internal stakeholders plus external stakeholders.
Budget and Resource Optimization:
Manage project budgets, ensuring cost-effective use of resources and identifying opportunities for savings.
Optimize the allocation of design resources to maximize efficiency

📌 Project Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Aecom
📍 Madrid