Project Director – Cost Management

About the Opportunity

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 seeking an experienced Project Director – Cost Management to lead the successful delivery of major infrastructure projects across our offices in Dublin, Cork, or Galway.

In this senior leadership role, you will provide strategic direction across complex cost management commissions, ensuring excellence in project delivery, client service, team leadership, and business growth. You will play a key role in strengthening client relationships, driving commercial performance, and expanding AECOM's Cost Management presence within the infrastructure sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership and oversight for the delivery of major cost management commissions
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams
• Drive strategic project planning and commercial governance
• Ensure effective resource management and operational efficiency
• Identify, pursue, and secure new business opportunities
• Champion best practice in cost management
• Foster a high-performance culture
• Oversee training, competency development, and succession planning
• Represent AECOM within the industry

Qualifications

What We're Looking For

The successful candidate will bring significant experience within the buildings sector, along with the following qualifications and professional credentials:

• Degree qualified (BSc or MSc) in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, or a related discipline
• Professionally qualified with Chartered Quantity Surveyor status through the SCSI and/or RICS
• 8–10 years of proven experience in a consultancy environment
• A passion for delivering high-quality consulting services and exceptional client outcomes
• Excellent IT skills

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. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.

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.

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 ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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