Project Director – Controls Analytics

About the Opportunity

As part of our continued growth, we are seeking to recruit Project Directors to strengthen our leadership team. These roles will play a critical part in:

• Leading high-profile client engagements
• Shaping and delivering Controls Analytics solutions
• Driving work-winning and business growth
• Developing our team and capability

Responsibilities

• Strategic Client Leadership:
  • Act as a trusted advisor to Programme Directors, Sponsors and senior client stakeholders.
  • Provide strategic direction on controls analytics, PMO performance, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Translate complex data and controls outputs into clear, actionable executive insights.
• Delivery Oversight & Solution Leadership
  • Lead the set-up and oversight of Controls Analytics delivery across projects, programmes and portfolios.
  • Define controls operating models, reporting frameworks, and governance structures.
  • Provide direction and assurance to delivery teams (data engineers, analysts, controls specialists).
  • Ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, scalable, and aligned to client outcomes.
• Controls Analytics and PMO Transformation
  • Shape and implement integrated controls analytics approaches covering cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance.
  • Oversee the development of executive reporting, dashboards, and KPI frameworks.
  • Drive adoption of insight-driven performance management and proactive intervention practices.
  • Support clients in improving controls maturity, data quality, and governance.
• Work Winning & Business Development
  • Play a leading role in bids, proposals, and client pursuits.
  • Develop and articulate compelling Controls Analytics propositions aligned to market needs.
  • Identify and drive organic growth opportunities within existing client engagements.
  • Build strong external relationships to enhance AECOM’s market presence.
• Team & Capability Leadership
  • Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing, multidisciplinary teams.
  • Foster a consultancy mindset, ensuring teams deliver value beyond core scope.
  • Contribute to the development of methods, tools, and accelerators.
  • Support recruitment, succession planning, and capability growth aligned to business strategy.
• Risk, Change & Performance Insight Leadership
  • Ensure integration of risk, contingency and scenario analytics into controls frameworks.
  • Guide development of change analytics and forecasting models to support decision-making.
  • Enable clients to move from retrospective reporting to predictive and forward-looking insights.

About You

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Eligibility

Here's What We're Looking For:

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Data/Analytics or related discipline.
• Professional certifications (APM, PMI, MSP, RICS, AACE or similar) desirable.
• Typically 15+ years’ experience across project/programme controls, PMO leadership, and/or consultancy.

Benefits

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.

About Company

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. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our technical and digital expertise, culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.