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.

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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.

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 cost management, data analytics, planning and risk management in:

• Rail
• Aviation
• Highways
• Water
• Power
• Defence
• Pharmaceutical
• Real Estate

Our varied services facilitate our involvement in all stages of a project. From identifying the needs, producing the initial project definition & brief and cost planning, right through to procurement, construction and building use, you will have an opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients. This includes some very high-profile names, often working alongside other construction professionals in multi-disciplinary teams in the UK and potentially further afield. We believe that actually doing the work itself gives the best opportunity to learn, so you can expect to be given responsibility, and will need to be able to work both autonomously and as part of a team, all whilst receiving the guidance and support to allow you to develop.

With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there is no limit to the impact you can make. You will utilise and adapt soft skills, and application of edge cutting technologies to help understand and develop bespoke solutions for our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

We are looking for confident self-starters with a strong work ethic to champion Aecom’s vision and values. The role can be varied and is dependent on the client, sector and project. The choice of rotating around disciplines is available throughout your career to maximise your personal fulfilment, subject to business availability.

Project Controls:

• You will support for the application of robust controls across projects, challenging performance and implement corrective action to realise goals.
• Assist in preparing, updating, and monitoring schedules, preparing status reports and staffing curves, in alignment with scope of work and resource, including subcontractors and consultants.
• Monitor and report on project planned spend, actual spend, and estimate to complete.
• Develop knowledge and support coordination of performance measurement and earned value plan and updates.
• Support Project team, with the change control management process and gain insight into rational and importance of change events.
• Support maintaining governance across the Control account.

Data Analytics:

• You will play a crucial role in supporting the development and improvement of data management and analysis functions for the team.
• Assist in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data to support strategic business decisions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations that provide data-driven solutions.
• Support data quality initiatives by identifying and resolving inconsistencies, ensuring accuracy and reliability of the data.
• Contribute to the automation of data processes to streamline reporting and analysis activities.
• Support the implementation of data management best practices and contribute to process improvements.

Risk Management:

• You will work alongside key stakeholders to demonstrate the effective identification, management and reporting of key risk exposures.
• Propose and develop suitable risk control framework and enhanced reporting for the benefit of senior management and different stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of risk control monitoring, including sourcing of data in a sustainable way and to improve data quality.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and control solutions.
• Support and develop risk systems and infrastructure.
• Participate in the enhancement and automation of the different risk processes and reporting.
• Manage complex projects requiring coordination with other departments.
• Adhere to challenging reporting timelines while supporting PMs to ensure they have the necessary information for their reporting needs.

Planning and Scheduling:

• You will work in an integrated project delivery team and gain experience of developing and maintaining accurate and robust project plans to add value to project goals.
• Assist collaboratively with developing, maintaining, and progressing quality project plans/schedules in line with functional processes and project requirements.
• Assemble project plans, ensuring they capture the full project scope and that resources are considered and loaded as required.
• Validate plans/schedules for completeness and fitness for purpose, in line with the Project Management Plan.
• Proactively identify opportunities and risks in the plan.
• Monitor the critical path and key milestones, proactively advising the delivery team of any potential changes.

Cost Control:

This role will contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of cost management ensuring control, accuracy, visibility, and value are embedded into project activities.

• Provide cost management inputs, and support to the budget and forecast requirements.
• Develop and maintain cost models to ensure accurate reporting, benchmarking, and analysis of infrastructure costs.
• Work closely with the scheduling team to ensure integration and alignment of infrastructure cost models and schedules.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and implement cost-reduction measures.
• Develop key cost management measures, metrics and cost drivers.
• Assist in the development of benchmarking databases and reporting processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (min 2.1 or equivalent) in a STEM discipline.
• Member of a relevant body (desirable) with supporting accreditation/certification.
• Relevant work experience would be advantageous but not essential.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Must have proficient IT skills, particularly MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project).
• Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to work with a wide range of Clients and Consultants.
• Must possess excellent presentation and negotiation skills.
• Strong organisational, problem solving, decision making and time management skills.
• High aptitude to learning new systems/technology.
• Must be able to work effectively as part of a team.

Security clearance:

The successful candidate must, by the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), dependent on assignment.

Additional information

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected on a rolling recruitment basis. Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades.

You must have permanent right to work in the UK &/or Ireland as we unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

All Early Careers (Apprentices and Graduates) colleagues complete the AECOM ADVANCE programme before progressing to their professional qualification with the RICS. You will be supported through this process with an appointed Counsellor, access to resources and attendance at our three-day technical residential and case study workshop to prepare them for their APC.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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