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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With 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.
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Job Description
AECOM is seeking a talented Operations Manager for immediate employment in our Los Angeles, CA office. This internal leadership role will support a team of architects and designers to deliver interdisciplinary world-class projects for our clients in the sports and entertainment market. The leader will actively drive projects toward successful outcomes, maintain and evolve business performance of the team and practice, while supporting and fostering a design-focused culture of self-supporting creative teams.
AECOM’s Americas Sports Practice is an established leader in the market continuing to provide world-class projects for decades. This showcase practice focuses its work across a range of facilities, from performance and development facilities to primary competition venues, ranging anywhere from small collegiate clients to the largest professional leagues and franchises. We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.
Our Buildings + Places Business Line embodies the spirit of a nimble, fully integrated design firm within a fully global infrastructure organization. Our culture is dynamic, offering autonomy and the feel of a smaller, collaborative studio backed by the resources of a large interdisciplinary firm. Services include architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism, and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy +, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management. This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create.
Responsibilities
- Under limited direction, and in partnership with the managing principal, is responsible for the overall business performance and growth of their department.
- Develops and maintains the setup and execution of client contracts. Is involved in planning, developing and coordinating project related activities.
- Provides project management and operational direction to key project personnel.
- Meets or exceeds the annual NSR, EBITA, and Utilization goals of the department.
- Evaluates and develops contractual factors (pricing, scope, and terms/conditions) for new and existing contracted projects.
- Responsible for identification and mitigation of project risk across the portfolio of the department.
- Upholds project teams to high quality delivery standards and proactively manages teams to supplement staffing or provide quality review oversight for our technical team delivery.
- In partnership with the Managing Principal, contributes to elevating department and architectural practice culture, including recruiting/hiring strategies and office-level leadership for department team members.
- Upholds ethics, compliance, diversity, and safety priorities in everything they do, and advocates to support this continued culture through the team.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- BA/BS + 8 years of relevant expereince or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters in Business Administration
- Professionally licensed in architecture or engineering
- 5+ years in an operationally-focused role.
- 5+ years of direct project experience including scope-writing, pricing development, and contract negotiation.
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About AECOM
AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.
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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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 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.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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