**Company Description** At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. We are made up of our core values and the inclusive and dynamic culture we create for our 50,000 employees across the globe. We’re committed to managing our business with the upmost responsibility and to always strive for better — be that reducing emissions, creating social value or diversifying our leadership and workforce. We welcome and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability. Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion enables us to better anticipate our clients’ needs and realize our purpose of delivering a better world. **Job Description** **We are currently recruiting for a Program Controls Manager to join us at our Panama City office. The selected candidate will be an exceptional leader with proven expertise in managing and coordinating Program Controls for programs that are large in size, are of high strategic value and/or have a high level of execution complexity.** **Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities:** + Provides senior-level oversight for program controls activities, ensuring alignment with the strategic objectives set by senior leadership. + Provides expert guidance and oversight to project controls teams, ensuring the effective management of individual project elements. + Leads the coordination efforts across multiple projects within the program, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with overarching program objectives. + Proactively identifies and addresses interdependencies between projects, + Engages in strategic collaboration with project managers to ensure optimal resource allocation and utilization. + Facilitates clear and concise communication between project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership, providing insightful and actionable updates. + Maintains close working relationships with senior leadership to define and refine program-level objectives with precision. + Delivers comprehensive and regular updates to senior leadership on program progress, challenges, and achievements, ensuring full transparency and accountability. + Highly capable of shaping and advancing the organization's program controls capabilities. **Qualifications** **Minimum Requirements** + BA/BS in Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or Business + 8 YORE or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education + Fluent Spanish and Advanced English. + Experience in similar positions for mixed-use building projects or programs with over 30,000m2 of total built area. + Deep understanding in all underlying concepts and principles of program controls, paired with extensive experience to provide insights, thought leadership and the evolution of the discipline. + Understanding of and ability to articulate the differences and nuances between the role of program controls and that of project controls. + Demonstrates a high level of capability in establishing, managing and maintaining a robust and realistic baseline, assessing performance, providing meaningful insightful analysis to support proactive management of the program, facilitating deliberate, evidence-based decision-making in order to enhance delivery confidence, manage risks, and provide assurance in program outcomes. + Demonstrates a high level of capability in both project and program controls, reaching the required level of technical excellence in AECOM Program Controls Competencies and skills. **Additional Information** **Preferred Qualifications** + BA/BS in Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or Business plus 15 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education. + 10+ years of experience in project controls and/or management. + PM certificate by any organization; PMI, PMP, ... etc. + Experience in integration of controls - scope, cost, schedule, risk reporting. + Experience in Microsoft Power BI report tailoring for program specific needs. This job application is for future opportunities without immediate urgency **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 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. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. **ReqID:** REF42848Q **Business Line:** PPM **Business Group:** DCS **Strategic Business Unit:** East **Career Area:** Program & Project Management **Work Location Model:** On-Site **Legal Entity:** AECOM USA Panama Branch