Project Manager, Asset Advisory

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Project Manager III to join our Asset Advisory Services team in any the following offices: San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Orange, CA or Seattle, WA.

We are also willing to consider a full telecommuting position for highly qualified candidates.

About AECOM

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

We take on the most complex challenges and pioneer innovative, iconic solutions that push the limits of what’s possible – the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, record-breaking sports events, the largest greenfield port development mega project, life-sustaining and disaster recovery programs, and the tallest tower in the Western Hemisphere.

About Buildings + Places

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture. With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.

Job Summary/Responsibilities

AECOM’s Asset Advisory Services West team is seeking a Project Manager III to support several large building asset management projects and assist the team leaders in growing the business regionally and globally. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate an established career in buildings-focused asset management and/or architecture/engineering, with 7+ years of progressive experience in project management.

Our clients are wide-ranging, from large government entities (municipal and federal) to global commercial organizations. The commonality between our clients is they manage large real estate portfolios. Our team’s mission is to assist these clients with technology implementation, strategic recommendations, building code analysis, condition assessment and capital planning.

The individual we seek enjoys developing novel solutions for unique issues and is capable of adjusting their perspective from small details to the overall big picture. They need to understand how buildings function and how owner-side strategic decisions are made. Our projects are large, complex and multidisciplinary. Our team is characterized by people who are flexible and solutions-oriented with a dedicated focus on continuous improvement.  As a project manager, the candidate must also be able to anticipate client needs while balancing internal business expectations.

Because asset management is a developing field, we are willing to train a candidate in Asset Management who has a related career in architecture/engineering that meets our other criteria.

Some key responsibilities the Project Manager III- Asset Advisory Services hire will be performing include:

• Can exercise independent judgement in determining how work is performed but receives guidance and direction on new projects, tasks and priorities from team leadership
• Act as the client’s key point of contact on assigned projects
• Maintain project finances and documentation according to AECOM standards
• Become an AECOM Certified Project Manager within 3 months of hiring
• Identify ways to improve project and team processes and workflows
• Contribute to project deliverables which may involve technical writing, data collection and research
• Perform work related to asset management and strategic planning, including develop