About the Role
Provide project scheduling, programme controls expertise, and technical support across AECOM’s Environment & Energy portfolio, supporting the successful delivery of complex infrastructure, energy transition, and environmental projects. The role is responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining integrated project schedules, coordinating delivery programmes, monitoring performance, and providing high-quality programme management insight to project teams, clients, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Develop, manage, and maintain integrated project schedules for complex environmental, energy, and infrastructure projects.
- Establish and maintain baseline programmes, including work breakdown structures, logic sequencing, key milestones, dependencies, and critical path analysis.
- Support project teams with programme development, progress measurement, forecasting, and schedule updates.
- Monitor progress against approved programmes, identifying variance, trends, delays, and opportunities for improvement.
- Identify critical activities, delivery risks, constraints, and required mitigation actions.
- Prepare programme reports, dashboards, and schedule analysis to support project decision-making.
- Support change control activities through assessment of programme impacts, mitigation measures, and recovery planning.
- Provide schedule input into project bids, proposals, and business development activities.
- Support Project Managers and Delivery Leads with effective programme management and project controls.
- Maintain accurate project schedule information and ensure timely reporting of progress, performance, and forecast outcomes.
- Support progress reporting and continuous improvement of project planning processes.
- Work collaboratively with engineering, environmental, commercial, and delivery teams to improve programme certainty and project outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience in project scheduling, programme management, or project controls within infrastructure, energy, or environmental sectors.
- Experience developing and managing integrated project schedules using recognised planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of project delivery lifecycles, programme controls, and risk management principles.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary project environments.
- Strong analytical, organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working within NEC contract environments, including programme management requirements, change control processes, early warnings, compensation events, and contract programme submissions.
- Experience supporting projects within sectors such as: Renewable energy and energy transition, including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), data centres, critical infrastructure, grid infrastructure, and utilities.
- Experience supporting projects within sectors such as: Environmental delivery programmes, including projects involving Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirements.
- Experience supporting projects within sectors such as: Major infrastructure consenting programmes, including Development Consent Orders (DCO).
- Experience supporting projects within sectors such as: Decarbonisation and sustainability initiatives.
- Experience with earned value management, schedule risk analysis, progress measurement, and project controls reporting.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering and environmental delivery teams.
- Commercial awareness and experience supporting client-facing project delivery.
- All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
Skills
- Primavera P6
- MS Project
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Earned value management
- Schedule risk analysis
- Progress measurement
- Project controls reporting
Location
- UK - London - Aldgate Tower
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree qualification in Engineering, Environment, Project Management, or a related discipline
Benefits
- Career development opportunities
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Technical practice networks
- AECOM University
- Volunteering days
- Wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs
About the Company
- 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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.
- We are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.
- We invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
- Your growth and success are ours too.
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team.
- We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities.
- If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected].
- At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.
- Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
