Quality LeadRail projects

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AECOM is seeking an experienced Quality Lead:Rail projects to join our Dublin-based team supporting the delivery of major transport infrastructure programmes across Ireland.

This is a programme-level quality leadership role providing strategic direction governance and assurance across projects and workstreams. The successful candidate will bring strong experience in quality management within complex infrastructure programmes together with a sound understanding of the Irish transport environment.

A key requirement is familiarity with client procedures standards and ways of working as well as experience of quality requirements associated with tunnelling and rail infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee quality management activities at programme and PMO level ensuring consistent application of quality requirements across projects and workstreams.
• Develop implement and maintain programme-level Quality Management Plans processes procedures and assurance frameworks.
• Provide independent quality assurance and governance identifying risks trends non-conformances and opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure project teams comply with applicable client requirements standards and procedures.
• Establish and monitor quality performance indicators reporting quality status risks and key issues to programme leadership.
• Support the development and implementation of audit inspection assurance and continuous improvement programmes.
• Work closely with project managers design teams contractors technical disciplines and client representatives to embed quality throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide quality leadership across complex infrastructure interfaces with particular consideration of rail tunnelling and major transport infrastructure requirements.
• Review and challenge project quality documentation deliverables and assurance evidence.
• Lead or support investigations into quality issues non-conformances and root causes ensuring effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Promote a strong quality culture across the programme encouraging consistent standards and a proactive approach to risk management.
• Contribute to programme governance stage-gate reviews and management reporting.

Qualifications :

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Heres what were looking for:

As the successful candidate you will have experience working across a range of sectors and will possess the following qualifications skills and experience:

Essential Experience

• Significant experience in a Quality Management / Quality Assurance role within major infrastructure engineering or construction programmes.
• Demonstrable experience operating at programme portfolio or PMO level rather than solely at individual project level.
• Strong understanding of quality management systems assurance processes audits non-conformance management and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with client procedures standards and ways of working in the Irish transport infrastructure environment.
• Experience of quality requirements associated with tunnelling and/or rail projects.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders including clients designers contractors and delivery partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present quality information clearly to senior management.
• Ability to influence project teams and drive consistent quality standards across multiple workstreams.

Desirable

• Experience working on major Irish transport infrastructure programmes.
• Relevant professional qualification or degree in engineering construction quality management or a related discipline.
• Membership of a relevant professional body or quality organisation.
• Knowledge of recognised quality management standards such as ISO 9001.
• Experience within multidisciplinary programme environments involving complex interfaces and significant delivery risk.

Additional Information :

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About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds 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 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 youre 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. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll 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 persons potential and well 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   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time