Framework Manager - Water

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you ready to shape the future of the water industry?

Our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water Team are looking for an enthusiastic and determined senior professional with water industry experience to take on the important role of Framework Manager. Due to recent growth and our pipeline of projects with key water clients in Ireland, this role is crucial to delivering the objectives of our water business, where significant opportunities for both account and client relationship growth exist.

You will lead the AECOM approach and collaborative engagement with our client, managing a multi-disciplinary professional services framework to maintain a consistently excellent client service, project delivery metrics and service growth. You will be based in one of our Ireland offices - Dublin City Centre, Cork or Galway - whilst also utilising our flexible hybrid work model. 

Our current project portfolio comprises a diverse mix of local and national projects for our key Client, Uisce Éireann. Ranging across water and wastewater asset planning and infrastructure delivery, we’re providing the full range of project lifecycle services including modelling, feasibility & appraisal, environment and planning, sustainability, energy and carbon reduction, outline and detailed design, project, programme and contract management, cost management, site supervision and commissioning. 

As an integral part of our network of framework and account managers across the UK and Ireland, the role offers a great springboard for future career development within AECOM both nationally and globally.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead: This role is a key client facing position in which you will be empowered to lead the frameworks that you’re on; and be accountable for developing and maintaining our relationship and reputation with our clients.
• Deliver: You will work with our Strategy & Growth leads and CAMs to develop and deliver your framework account plan. You will be the conduit that connects our clients with our business, ensuring we deliver to agreed metrics - including safety, programme, cost, innovation and quality. You will manage the wider corporate relationship and drive business with the client (both new growth and maintaining existing workloads). This means representing the full spectrum of AECOM services and geographies, giving you the opportunity to learn about and connect with our wider teams.
• Quality: You will understand AECOM’s commercial, contractual and technical obligations to clients and ensure that we deliver to them, outperforming and reporting on Framework KPIs at regular intervals, ensuring client satisfaction that results in repeat work.
• Grow: You will identify upcoming pursuits with the client and work with internal teams to position AECOM for them. You will be responsible for promoting opportunities, leading the resulting proposal development with the bid and delivery teams to develop winning strategies and high quality technical and commercial proposals.
• Develop: Work with your AECOM colleagues to identify areas of business need (capacity and capability), highlighting areas to develop and expand the team both through progression of internal staff and recruitment.

Come grow with us.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, we want to hear from you! Become part of our growing Water business, which boasts around 600 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier engineers and consultants from other practice areas to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures that uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry! 

Let's not forget the perks! 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, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days and our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree (or equivalent) in an engineering subject. 
• Deep understanding of water sector and knowledge of the regulatory environment that our clients operate in.
• Proven experience in forming strong relationships and mutual trust with a range of stakeholders within client organisations.
• Experience in technical and commercial bid development and delivery of water industry schemes.
• Experience of delivery across project phases, such as business case development, feasibility, outline / conceptual design, detailed design, construction support etc.
• Experience delivering professional services in the water industry across a range of areas – Asset Management, Engineering, Environment, Planning, Programme/Project Management etc.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities so, if you're an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable adjustment to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

 

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 ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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