Project Director - Controls Analytics

Overview

As a Project Director in Controls Analytics, you will lead strategic client engagements and shape analytics-enabled controls solutions for large infrastructure programmes. You’ll oversee delivery, drive growth through bids and propositions, and mentor multidisciplinary teams. Your role combines high-level advisory work with hands-off solution direction to deliver data-driven improvements in cost, risk, and performance. You’ll operate across senior client leadership to turn insights into actionable outcomes, contributing to AECOM’s controls analytics proposition and market growth.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work options
• career growth and leadership development
• industry-leading technology and thinking
• well-being programs
• global opportunities
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to Programme Directors and senior client stakeholders, guiding controls analytics and PMO performance.
• Oversee delivery across projects, programmes, and portfolios; define operating models, reporting, and governance.
• Shape integrated controls analytics approaches covering cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance; develop executive dashboards and KPI frameworks.
• Lead bids, proposals, and client pursuits; articulate compelling Controls Analytics propositions and identify growth opportunities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary teams; foster consultancy mindset and skills development.
• Ensure integration of risk, contingency and scenario analytics; guide development of change analytics and forecasting models.

Key requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Data/Analytics or related discipline
• Typically 15+ years’ experience across project/programme controls, PMO leadership, and/or consultancy
• Proven senior leadership experience in complex programmes or consultancy environments
• Strong client engagement, stakeholder influence, and delivery leadership
• Deep understanding of project controls disciplines: cost, planning, risk, change and performance
• Strategic thinking
• Executive communication
• Mentorship and team development
• Controls analytics solutions
• Dashboards and KPI frameworks
• Power BI

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