Program Controls Manager

Company Description
**At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.**

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Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you 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.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let's get started.

**Job Description**:
**The Role**

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

At AECOM, we define programs as the disciplined, systematic orchestration of resources (money, time, people, information) to plan, design, construct, and deliver a collection of projects in a coordinated way in order to obtain benefits for the owner not attainable if managed separately.

As part of our Project & Program Management team, we are currently looking for an experienced Program Controls Manager as a member of the core team with primary responsibility within our Queensland and Northern Territories (QNT) geography.

Large programs require the management, coordination and integration of multiple, concurrent assignments. From concept through completion, we provide necessary technical and administrative services to help our clients meet their program objectives. We act as an extension of our clients' staff, protecting their interests as our own.

As an industry leader in program management services for large capital programs, we oversee activities ranging from organizational and governance planning, to coordination, scheduling and cost control, and into design, construction and commissioning. We specialize in serving both public and private clients with extensive expertise in community infrastructure, including facilities for education, healthcare, national governments, sports and leisure, transportation, water and public gathering venues.

The Program Controls Manager will report to the Program Advisory and Program Management Team Lead and be part of a growing team with broad reaching experience across diverse industry sectors. They will be involved in all phases of program delivery from program advisory, through initiation, execution and close-out and they will act as the primary program controls interface for the geography, providing critical input to key business development activities, delivering advisory services and initiating programs.

The Program Controls Manager will collaborate with the Global Program Controls team and contribute to the maintenance of a global community of practice, enabling the sharing of best practices and supporting staff in their personal career development.

**About You**
- Understands the wider Global Program Management Business Line and acts a connector across the region and other Business Lines.
- Supports the Program Advisory & Program Management Team Lead in the development and implementation of a strategic Controls framework that establishes standards, common tools, systems and processes consistent with industry best practices and highlighting and building upon AECOM's current and past Controls portfolio and track record of success.
- Collaborates with the AECOM Controls community of practice comprised of professionals across the firm experienced in and engaged in Controls services.
- Provides Program Controls input into key program bids in the region.
- Undertakes Program Controls Init