Bristol, United Kingdom Hybrid Full-time

AECOM is hiring an Associate Director - Planning

Responsibilities

  • Promote and ensure overall team integration
  • Establishes partnerships with external employers to develop recruitment strategies and enhance internal and external relationships.
  • Implement and lead collaborative planning workshops to ensure buy-in from overall project team
  • Perform impact analysis and monitors schedule variance
  • Lead application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques and tools.
  • Good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls methodologies
  • Ability to advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively.
  • Able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects / programmes
  • Ability to play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.
  • Leads and manages a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development.
  • Mastery in setting up effective planning / schedule management systems & procedures
  • Expert knowledge of schedule management tools & software
  • Managing resourcing, growing & developing the team
  • Able to manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcomes
  • Support to senior management in deal negotiations, contract development, due diligence & other business development or alliance development projects
  • Excellent attention to detail & able to validate & check schedule management inputs, recording & reports produced, providing basic commentary & analysis
  • Looking to future to create a vision and set strategy
  • Persuading and influencing colleagues
  • Identifying and analysing business risks
  • Building and leading a high performing team
  • Very high political and cultural acuity
  • Creating and delivering persuasive and engaging presentations to wide range of audiences in our industry
  • Spotting, developing and coaching talented individuals
  • Selling and promoting the business and winning work

Requirements

  • Excellent knowledge of Scheduling Best practice and associated software
  • Good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls methodologies
  • Ability to advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively.
  • Able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects / programmes
  • Ability to play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.
  • Leads and manages a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development.
  • Mastery in setting up effective planning / schedule management systems & procedures
  • Expert knowledge of schedule management tools & software
  • Managing resourcing, growing & developing the team
  • Able to manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcomes
  • Excellent attention to detail & able to validate & check schedule management inputs, recording & reports produced, providing basic commentary & analysis

Nice to Have

  • Enthusiastic, ambitious, and highly motivated
  • Innovative thinker who is keen to engage and “Make Complex look Simple”
  • Get involved in the AI revolution of Project Controls
About company
AECOM
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering solutions in water, environment, energy, transportation, and buildings. The company partners with public- and private-sector clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies through advisory, planning, design, engineering, and construction management. A Fortune 500 firm with $16.1 billion revenue in fiscal year 2025.
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Job Details
Department B&P - Buildings & Places
Category management
Posted 11 days ago