Aerodrome Projects Director
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About the Role
Lead planning, design, and delivery of airport projects, ensuring compliance, budget management, and risk mitigation while mentoring multidisciplinary teams.
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Responsibilities
- Define and oversee project delivery strategy for airport and airfield programs
- Establish governance frameworks and performance measurement systems
- Lead planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases
- Monitor project progress and implement mitigation strategies for delays
- Direct preparation and management of project budgets and cost reports
- Lead risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
- Act as primary interface between stakeholders including airport authorities and contractors
- Mentor and develop multidisciplinary teams
Requirements
- Extensive experience in managing large scale airport/airfield development programs
- Proven leadership in multidisciplinary project teams
- Knowledge of aviation regulations and safety standards
- Experience in contract administration and procurement
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Job Overview
- Parsons is looking for an Aerodrome Projects Director to lead planning, design, and delivery of major airport and airfield development programs.
- The role ensures safe, timely, cost effective, and high quality project outcomes.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define, implement, and oversee the overall project delivery strategy for airport and airfield programs.
- Establish governance frameworks, reporting structures, and performance measurement systems aligned with client objectives and aviation standards.
- Lead the planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases of major aviation infrastructure projects.
- Ensure project schedules are realistic, integrated across disciplines, and aligned with operational requirements.
- Monitor project progress, identify delays or delivery risks, and implement mitigation strategies to maintain schedule performance.
- Direct the preparation and management of project budgets, forecasts, cost reports, and financial performance updates.
- Drive cost control, value engineering, commercial efficiency, and financial risk management across all project stages.
- Monitor contractor performance, payments, change impacts, and overall commercial performance.
- Lead the identification, assessment, and mitigation of technical, financial, operational, schedule, and interface risks.
- Ensure compliance with aviation regulations, airport authority requirements, environmental standards, safety requirements, and project lifecycle protocols.
- Act as the primary interface between airport authorities, government agencies, contractors, consultants, project sponsors, and internal delivery teams.
- Facilitate effective decision making, resolve delivery challenges, and maintain transparent reporting with senior executives and key stakeholders.
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