Company Description
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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.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description
About our team:
We have a number of opportunities across Ireland for Quantity Surveying graduates to work within our cost management teams, to help provide construction cost management services to our clients in the Ireland, the UK and around the world.
AECOM provides Cost Management services to Clients in both the public and private sector, and to organisations in all areas of the Construction Industry including:

• Commercial – new build, refurbishment and fit out for major property developers.
• Manufacturing, Industrial and Automotive facilities
• Education establishments including schools, academies, colleges and universities.
• Health and Science – for leading edge health authorities and research organisations
• Residential developments for major developers
• Leisure and Culture projects such as theatres, concerts halls and museums
• Infrastructure schemes, including large scale rail, highways, and water projects.

What you'll do:
Graduates will have the opportunity to work on local projects, as well as to interact with teams based across Ireland, the UK and potentially further afield
You will have the opportunity to be involved in all stages of a project; from initial project definition and brief, cost planning, through to procurement, construction and building use. You will work with a wide variety of clients and designers including some very high-profile names. We believe that doing the work itself gives the best opportunity to learn, so you can expect to be given responsibility, and will need to be able to work both autonomously and as part of a team, all whilst receiving the guidance and support to allow you to develop.
Job Responsibilities:
The Cost Management role we offer can be varied and is dependent on the Client, sector, and project. The role is generally split in to pre and post contract duties, which can include:
Pre-Contract:

• Cost modelling and cost planning
• Benchmarking
• Value and Risk Analysis
• Attending design team meetings
• Procurement tasks and managing tender processes
• Compilation of contract documentation

Post Contract:

• Attendance at site progress meetings
• Completion of Valuations
• Financial reporting
• Due Diligence reporting
• Review and management of change control procedures.

A Quantity Surveying Graduate at AECOM will have the opportunity to assist in all of the above tasks and see projects from inception to completion on site.
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.
Here is what you will get from us!
National chartership support network
The journey to Chartership is challenging however at AECOM we have a strong support network to help you be successful. Within each office a dedicated coordinator will connect you with a supervisor who will mentor you throughout, whilst our dedicated Chartership Steering Group drives our strategy and maintains close relationships with our accrediting bodies.
Early Careers Training Programme
Our Training programme ADVANCE focuses on providing the necessary tools to navigate your early career with focus on EDI, social value, wellbeing, career development and planning, professional skills, brand awareness and understanding AECOM processes. Delivered in person and online you’ll meet and work with senior leaders during the programme.
We’ll prepare you for your Chartership assessment with interactive presentation skills and case study training days that will develop skills that benefit you now and for times ahead. Underpinning our live and interactive content our bespoke AECOM University resource provides over 30 hours of self-directed learning aligned to your Chartership pathway.
AECOM has been developing professionals for many years and benefits from an engaged Chartership community who support graduates in practicing for their assessment interview with mock interviews; creating assessment conditions for rehearsal and valuable feedback to be obtained.
Our monthly CPD programme delivered by internal and external subject matter experts will further enhance your technical understanding and embed a CPD habit that will support your professional development.
Residential
Our Chartership Technical Training Residential; hosted at Aston Conference Centre provides graduates with the opportunity to build both their technical and interpersonal skills to support successful Chartership.
Over three days you will have opportunity to work with other graduates across disciplines laying the foundations of working relationships for the future. Our bespoke EQ workshop will enhance the themes explored in AECOM’s ADVANCE programme and focus on building your self-awareness to support your career aspirations.

Qualifications
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (min 2:1 or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying, Quantity Surveying & Commercial Management, Quantity Surveying & Construction Economics (preferably RICS /SCSI accredited)
Skills:

• Effective decision making and strong verbal and written communication.
• Proactive and driven approach to work and promoting success
• Ability to working in a team of diverse individuals to meet common objectives.
• Buy-in to achieving deadlines set by Clients and Managers
• Good organization skills: ability to manage multiple tasks and willingness to ask for help when needed, as well as support other members of the team.

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

Additional Information
Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected on a rolling recruitment basis for an advanced offer start. Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades plus your degree transcript to date.
You must have permanent right to work in Ireland as we unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.


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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 $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.