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Planner:Rail projects
AECOMDublin, IRL
Apply 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 _Start here. Grow here._ At AECOM, we are recruiting aPlanner:Rail projects to join us in our Dublin office. _Here’s what you’ll do:_ Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities: Programme Scheduling & Project Controls Responsibilities
- Develop detailed project schedules and Gantt charts from first principles using Primavera P6, aligned with the Delivery Programme’s standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
- Identify and define all project activities, tasks, milestones, and deliverables across the full project lifecycle, including Feasibility, Design, Statutory Planning, Procurement, Construction, and Operational Readiness.
- Collaborate with Project Managers and key stakeholders to establish realistic activity durations, sequencing, and resource assumptions.
- Develop and manage logic ties, dependencies, leads, lags, and float, ensuring accurate critical path identification for each project.
- Integrate individual project schedules into a consolidated Master Programme Schedule in Primavera P6 to provide a portfolio-level overview of the Capital Investment Programme (CIP).
- Maintain and update individual project schedules on a monthly reporting cycle, ensuring timely updates to the integrated Master Programme for enterprise-wide reporting.
- Conduct contractor programme reviews, schedule risk assessments, and critical path analysis during tender evaluations and throughout project delivery.
- Assess project changes and variations to determine impacts on programme, budget, and risk.
- Support the implementation and monitoring of Earned Value Management (EVM) across the project portfolio.
- Prepare and contribute to programme and project performance reports for the Project Management Team and senior stakeholders.
- Develop cost-loaded schedules to support cash flow forecasting and financial planning.
- Provide administrative and analytical support within the Project Controls team, including data analysis, validation, and preparation of summary documentation.
- Facilitate cross-project scheduling workshops and meetings with design consultants, contractors, and internal teams to align methodologies, assumptions, and delivery strategies.
- Interface with pre-construction, design, construction, and capacity planning teams to support project kick-off, budget development, and construction timeframe planning.
- Work closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assess schedule impacts arising from new designs, materials, construction techniques, or methodologies.
- Maintain strong collaboration with the Cost & Risk Management team to enable accurate spend forecasting, risk identification, and mitigation planning.
- Perform programme controls analysis and develop summary-level reports and ad-hoc analyses to support decision-making by the Programme Controls Manager.Working Within a Multi-Disciplinary Team & Stakeholder Management
- Foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performance culture within the scheduling team, encouraging ownership, continuous improvement, and best-practice scheduling outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong, professional, and proactive relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the programme controls function and the wider project delivery environment.
- Provide timely, accurate, and clear responses to scheduling-related queries and requests for information, supporting informed decision-making and effective programme delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience, with years’ relevant experience in project planning and scheduling.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate, integrate, and manage multiple sources of schedule inputs and performance data into a consolidated master scheduling platform, producing accurate project and programme status reports.
- Proven experience developing critical path schedules from first principles, including leading planning workshops, interviewing project team members, and establishing robust schedule logic.
- Strong capability in defining, agreeing, and managing progress measurement and reporting methodologies with contractors and delivery partners.
- Extensive experience working on large capital programmes, with deep exposure to pre-construction planning and scheduling, and delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder development projects.