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    Associate Director - Bristol, United Kingdom - AECOM

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    Company Description

    Work with Us. Change the World.

    At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

    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

    We are seeking enthusiastic, ambitious, and highly motivated Associate Directors with excellent knowledge of Scheduling best practice and associated software.

    We are looking for innovative thinkers who are keen to engage and "Make Complex look Simple", and as such, get involved in the AI revolution of Project Controls.

    As an Associate Director you will play a crucial role in managing and overseeing various operational aspects within AECOM, contributing to strategic planning, and ensuring the successful implementation of high-level strategies.

    The role will support programme leads in the delivery of programme / projects by providing high level planning service for the preparation of project plans, producing baseline scheduled tasks, resource profiles and financial models. The successful person will be involved in improving the consistency, predictability and efficiency of the programmes project delivery capability and will be able to provide leadership in best practices and Continuous Improvement.

    As Associate Director, you will remain highly customer-focused - outward and upward and will consistently seek to exceed customer expectations. The role will ensure that the operational issues of the project controls and PMO are managed, focusing on the project interface with project leaders, project managers, project teams, and interface issues.

    The Associate Director will work as part of our Integrated Program Controls Team (IPC), which is composed of Schedule, Risk, Project Controls and Analytics, and as such will lead and drive Team Integration and Collaboration.

    Experience

    The AECOM Planning Associate Director role is a mid-level management position responsible for overseeing and managing various aspects of an organisation's operations, such as finances, HR, and marketing. The successful candidate will have already gained experience in:

    Managing daily team operations, including developing team policies and procedures, conducting team assessment and evaluation, and participating in strategic team planning.

    Overseeing specific programme areas, such as recruiting, experiential learning, and employer relations.

    Establishing partnerships with external employers to develop recruitment strategies and enhance internal and external relationships.

    Devising strategies for growth in profit and customer satisfaction, implementing policies and standards, evaluating the workforce, and setting goals in terms of budget and billable work.

    Conducting Peer Reviews and Quality Audits supported by concise report writing

    Collaboration

    You will be client focused and will understand the benefits of different communication methods and will effectively communicate with the client to ensure their needs are understood.

    You will implement collaboration techniques and lead workshops to develop meaningful project plans.

    You will be able to make autonomous decisions guided by policies, procedures and business objectives.

    You will capture lessons learned and communicate them to the team as well as develop case studies to ensure knowledge transfer.

    Clients

    You will apply CAM (Client Account Management) approach to manage all project stakeholders.

    • You will seek best practice, continuous improvement and added value, and understand the client's needs/requirements by proactively engaging with the client to grow and expand relationships.
    • You will seek to promote the sharing of any innovation or best practice.
    Innovation
    • You will have a strong desire to keep up to date with Industry best practice and technology innovations and have the willingness and motivation to participate in Working Groups
    • You will seek to bring new ideas and thinking to client work and internal processes and operations.
    Responsibilities

    Deputising for Senior Leadership Team

    Promotes and ensures overall team integration

    Establishes partnerships with external employers to develop recruitment strategies and enhance internal and external relationships.

    Implements and leads collaborative planning workshops to ensure buy-in from overall project team

    Performs impact analysis and monitors schedule variance

    Leads application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques and tools.

    Excellent 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

    Qualifications

    Applicants will ideally be degree educated, with previous industry & sector experience being essential.

    Demonstrable experience in the following tools is also required:

    Oracle Primavera

    MS Project

    Asta Power Project

    Power BI

    Excel

    Acumen Fuse.

    Additional Information

    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 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.

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