Planning Engineer

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks a Planning Engineer to deliver comprehensive planning and scheduling services across the full project lifecycle for our Infrastructure projects. You will ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with quality control and collaborate with project teams and clients.

You will develop baseline programmes, perform CPM and risk analyses, and produce regular reports and dashboards for stakeholders while applying NEC3 contract planning and earned value management principles.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and scheduling across project lifecycles.
• Strong knowledge of CPM and earned value management.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 and baseline programme development.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse teams and manage stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Developed, implemented, and managed integrated project schedules across the complete project lifecycle.
• Created and maintained logic-driven baseline programmes aligned with scope and milestones.
• Monitored progress, updated schedules with actual data, and forecast completion dates and remaining durations.
• Performed critical path analysis and identified programme risks, delays, and mitigation strategies.
• Produced planning reports and dashboards for project teams, senior management, and clients.
• Applied EVM principles to measure project performance and support cost and schedule control.
• Collaborated with project managers, commercial teams, site management, and engineering disciplines.
• Managed schedule changes through change control processes and maintained audit trails.

Skills

CPM method

Project controls

EVM

Schedule risk analysis

Baseline programme

Progress monitoring

NEC3 planning

Resource loading

Change management

Lifecycle management

Construction planning

Stakeholder management

Programme reporting

Excel

Tools

Primavera P6

Excel

Office suite

Job description

Soben is an award-winning construction consultancy with bold ambitions and a clear trajectory for growth. Since launching in 2011, we’ve built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Now, we’re entering a transformative new chapter.

In March 2025, Soben became part of Accenture’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice, within its Industry X division. This strategic acquisition combines our deep expertise in cost and commercial management with Accenture’s global scale and digital innovation.

As a Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering comprehensive planning and scheduling services across the full project lifecycle, ensuring projects were completed on time, within budget, and in accordance with quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Developed, implemented, and managed integrated project schedules throughout the complete project lifecycle using Primavera P6.
• Created and maintained logic-driven baseline programmes, ensuring alignment with project scope, milestones, and contractual requirements.
• Monitored project progress, updated schedules with actual performance data, and forecast completion dates and remaining durations.
• Performed critical path analysis and identified programme risks, delays, and opportunities, recommending effective mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Produced regular planning reports, schedule narratives, and performance dashboards for project teams, senior management, and clients.
• Applied Earned Value Management (EVM) principles to measure project performance, monitor productivity, and support cost and schedule control.
• Conducted schedule risk analysis to evaluate programme contingencies and assess potential impacts on project delivery.
• Collaborated closely with project managers, commercial teams, contractors, site management, and engineering disciplines to ensure programme alignment and successful execution.
• Managed programme changes through robust change control processes, maintaining a clear audit trail of schedule revisions and their impacts.
• Supported NEC3 contract administration by ensuring planning and scheduling activities complied with contractual requirements.
• Performed resource loading, expenditure tracking, and forecasting to optimise resource utilisation and improve project performance.
• Facilitated project progress meetings, challenging programme assumptions and driving corrective actions where necessary.
• Mentored junior planners and promoted best practices in planning, scheduling, and project controls across multidisciplinary teams.

Key Skills & Expertise

• Primavera P6 Planning & Scheduling
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Project Controls
• Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Schedule Risk Analysis
• Baseline Programme Development
• Progress Monitoring & Forecasting
• NEC3 Contract Planning
• Resource Loading & Cost Tracking
• Change Management
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Construction Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Programme Reporting & Schedule Analysis
• Microsoft Excel & Microsoft Office Suite

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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