Senior Planning Consultant/delay Consultant - Liverpool, United Kingdom - AECOM

AECOM

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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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.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, ambitious and highly motivated Senior Planning Consultant with demonstrable knowledge of the various principles of delay analysis, as well as preparation of delay claims, management of disputes and demonstrable ability in assessing the time impact of compensation events.

The Senior Consultant in a Planning / Delay role will be a key member of our team and provide services across a range of sectors for a variety of clients.

The role includes project planning, project controls and delay analysis services across the full project lifecycle.

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.

The Senior Planning Consultant will work as part of our Integrated Program Controls Team (IPC), which is composed of Schedule, Risk, Project Controls and Analytics.

Experience

Experienced in delay analysis and have welldeveloped clientfacing skills. Outstanding time management, excellent IT, and verbal communication skills.
Rigorous in following documented processes and governance and will be able to demonstrate the ability to innovate in creative ways to meet the challenges of a changing project environment.
Able to create a robust, contract compliant resourced project baseline programme with the experience of managing projects and their stakeholders on major highprofile projects across the energy, defence, rail, airports, highways, water and utilities sectors.
Commercially aware and able to make sound decisions in order to maximise fee earning potential and utilisation.
Able to demonstrate the ability to own large processes with mínimal oversight and will be accountable for leading the team to achieve results in line with business objectives.

Collaboration

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

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

Able to make autonomous decisions guided by policies, procedures and business objectives.

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

Clients

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.

Seek to promote the sharing of any innovation or best practice.

Innovation
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

Seek to bring new ideas and thinking to client work and internal processes and operations.

Responsibilities

Leads planning services multidisciplinary teams, reviewing and reporting on all aspects of projects.
Writing, editing, and preparing client reports as well as reviewing programming or delay situations and advising clients accordingly.
Acting as a role model and mentor to other AECOM employees through training, development and performance management.
Provides support to Associates and Directors.
Promoting oneself with professional institutions.
Supporting AECOM business development initiatives and events.
Provides analysis of schedule data to identify key project issues.

Provides analysis of schedule data to identify key project issues.

Supports the development of plans and schedules for proposals.
Track corrective actions.
Assists in coordination of schedule input from all parts of the organization.
Able to identify and assist in analysis of project schedule variances. Identifies and analyzes schedule variances and recommends associated corrective action.
Updates and produces scheduling management reports.
Able to use drawings and specifications for