<p>Join AECOM’s Aviation team as a Principal Project Manager / Design Manager, leading the delivery of complex airport and aviation infrastructure projects. In this hands-on, client-facing role, you’ll manage multidisciplinary design teams, oversee project programmes and budgets, and ensure technical excellence from concept to completion. You’ll combine strong aviation design expertise with programme leadership, acting as a true doer/seller who builds trusted client relationships and drives successful project outcomes.</p><ul><li>Deliver and coordinate aviation infrastructure projects across New Zealand airports and select Pacific and Australian programmes.</li><li>Guide design teams day-to-day, ensuring designs meet technical, regulatory, and operational requirements.</li><li>Maintain strong client engagement, providing technical advice and oversight while managing project progress and outcomes.</li><li>Manage aviation programme delivery, including schedules, budgets, and quality assurance for primarily private-sector projects.</li><li>Hands on technical design when and where needed amongst guiding teams</li></ul>

<p>AECOM is the world&rsquo;s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle &ndash; 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.</p>

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