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AECOM Senior Project Planner in Birmingham, United Kingdom

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

  • Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project.

  • Understands financial terminology and measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions.

  • Participates in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues.

  • May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks.

  • Participates in tracking action items.

  • Able to use drawings and specifications in the establishment of project baseline data.

  • Knowledgeable of accounting principles with extensive understanding of the manner in which the company establishes and documents the financial position.

  • Prepares revised cost forecast for select accounts.

  • Prepares analysis of progress trends and cost impact. May participate in reviewing and approving contractor invoices.

  • Works hands on with earned value monitoring.

  • Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations including preparation of variance analysis.

  • Compares actual cost to funding limitations. Prepares expenditure forecasts to identify critical points in project funding.

  • Reviews purchase order and subcontract commitments and expenditures. Maintains tracking database to insure that subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures.

  • Understands the manner in which profits on projects are budgeted and the extent to which the budget value is achieved.

  • Possesses the knowledge of scope control and change management. Involved in the tracking system to insure that project management is fully aware of detailed change order status.

  • Creates and assists with cost/schedule baseline budgets.

  • Familiar with basic cost/schedule integration and basic critical path analysis and other rescheduling concepts.

  • Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated cost trending.

  • Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting.

  • Participates in and may lead project cost review meetings.

  • Assists in procedure development and implementation.

Qualifications

Demonstrable experience in the following areas would be highly advantageous

  • Water industry experience

  • Engineering background

  • Pro active mindset

  • Confident in leading meetings

  • Comfortable being a right hand person to a Project Manager

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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 come at aecom.com 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.

ReqID: J10086670

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Program & Project Management

Work Location Model: Hybrid

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