Project Manager (Net Zero Carbon, Sustainability & District Heat Networks)

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As a Project Manager specialising in Net Zero Carbon, Sustainability, and District Heat Networks, you will lead and support the delivery of low‑carbon and energy infrastructure projects across all stages of the project lifecycle — from early‑stage concept and feasibility studies through design development, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.

You will work collaboratively with clients, engineers, sustainability specialists, and contractors to deliver complex environmental and energy transition projects that support national and regional decarbonisation goals.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Project & Technical Leadership

• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of Net Zero, sustainability, decarbonisation, and district heat network projects.
• Oversee feasibility studies, business case development, and strategic options appraisals.
• Manage the design process across multiple disciplines (energy, civil, mechanical, sustainability, digital).
• Ensure compliance with heat network efficiency standards, low‑carbon guidance, and Net Zero objectives.

Project Management Delivery

• Act as client‑side project manager throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Prepare and maintain project programmes, resource plans, and milestones.
• Monitor and manage project risks, opportunities, and dependencies.
• Lead procurement activities, contractor selection, and contract administration (NEC preferred).
• Manage budgets, project controls, reporting and governance reviews.

Stakeholder & Team Management

• Manage diverse internal and external stakeholders, including local authorities, private developers, utilities, and community partners.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary delivery teams and oversee consultant and contractor performance.
• Coordinate design assurance, quality management and technical reviews.
• Foster strong client relationships and identify opportunities for follow‑on work or cross‑sector support.

Construction & Commissioning

• Oversee construction monitoring, site progress, change control, and technical queries.
• Lead commissioning planning and readiness reviews for heat networks and low‑carbon systems.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to required performance standards.

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.

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Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Essential

• Experience managing projects within the sustainability, low‑carbon energy, heat networks, or wider energy infrastructure sectors.
• Strong understanding of Net Zero principles, carbon reduction strategies, and energy system design.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and managing contractors.
• Strong knowledge of project management processes, governance, and reporting.

Preferred

• NEC Project Manager accreditation or experience.
• Degree in Engineering, Construction, Project Management, Energy Systems, Sustainability, or a related discipline.
• Chartered status with RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE, APM, IET, CIBSE, or relevant body.

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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. 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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

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.

You will help us foster 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.

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 [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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