Graduate Project Controls Consultant - Birmingham, United Kingdom - AECOM

AECOM

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy.

We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.
We will give you 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities.

We believe in leadership at all levels.

No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Join us and let's get started.

Job Description:

We have several opportunities across the UK for STEM graduates to work within our Buildings and Places team, to help develop innovative class-leading project controls solutions to improve investment decision making to our clients in the UK and around the world.

The roles can be based in our London, Birmingham or Manchester office within our Integrated Programme Controls Team.

AECOM provides project controls services to a variety of clients in both the public and private sector, and to organisations in all areas of the Construction Industry including data analytics, planning and risk management in:

Rail
Aviation
Highways
Water
Power
Defence
Pharmaceutical
Real Estate

Graduates will have the opportunity to work on local projects, as well as to interact with teams based across the UK and potentially further afield.

With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there's no limit to the impact you can make.

The project controls graduate will utilise and adapt their technical and soft skills to our established project controls approach or those of our clients and develop an understanding of the various risk management and overall project management strategies available to our clients.

The role can be varied and is dependent on the client, sector and project, which can include:

Gathering, assessing and challenging cost, schedule and risk performance against forecasts and baseline from multiple suppliers in multiple programmes.
Adhering to challenging reporting timelines while supporting client PMs to ensure they have the necessary information for their reporting needs.
Providing clear and visible added value by drawing conclusions from cost and schedule data, to identify trends and raise performance issues.
Liaising with Data analytics team to present findings in bestinclass dashboards.
Always look for improvements to the processes, pursuing a followthrough of improvement projects for performance reporting and control.
Work with clients to understand and evaluate strategic options to support investment decisions.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree (min 2.2 or equivalent) in a STEM discipline.
Member of a relevant body (desirable) with supporting accreditation / certification.

Skills and Experience:

Ability to demonstrate logical reasoning and analytical thinking
Effective decision making with strong verbal and written communication
Strong organisational, problem solving and time management skills
Able to produce auditable outputs with clear record of error checking and demonstration of validity in results
Ability to assimilate, analyse and clearly communicate information
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability and confidence to work with a wide range of Clients and Consultants

Additional Information

Our ADVANCE (Graduate Development Programme) along with our huge scope