Senior Urban Planning Project Manager

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

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 h 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.

AECOM’s Urbanism + Planning practice is a continuum of design vision and strategic advisory that transforms communities. We lead through integration, shaping the social infrastructure that connects us all. U+P’s primary focus includes urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics, and environmental planning.

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 Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior Urban Planning Project Managerto support our growing Buildings & Places Business Line. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. AECOM’s Urbanism + Planning team is seeking a creative and experienced urban planner or urban designer to join its practice to manage and contribute to complex projects.

The role will lead transformative, large-scale urban design and master planning projects across the East Coast, with a focus on TOD, mixed-use development, placemaking, downtown revitalization, and public realm design in the Washington, DC region. Working collaboratively with urban designers, planners, landscape architects, engineers, and economists, the urban planner or urban designer will provide planning and urban design leadership, project management, client engagement, and business development for municipal, state, and private-sector clients.

Our teams have worked on transformative planning and urban design projects for high profile clients through the United States, including for major transit, transportation, economic development, and planning agencies.

The job responsibilities for the position will include but are not limited to:

Project Management & Leadership:

• In partnership with various Urbanism + Planning studios, lead complex, multidisciplinary projects from concept through implementation, including master plans, economic development strategies, land use and built form studies, public realm strategies, placemaking initiatives, and urban design guidelines.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, work plans, and deliverables across multiple concurrent projects, project phases, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Establish and maintain planning and urban design direction, quality, and consistency throughout project delivery while balancing innovation, feasibility, budget, and schedule.

• Prepare conditions assessments, land use and real estate analysis, diagrams and renderings, and high-quality presentations and reports that effectively communicate planning concepts, economic development considerations, and urban design vision for…