Senior / Principal Consultant - Programme Advisory (Energy & Utilities - Infrastructure & Capit[...]

PA Consulting; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is looking for talented individuals to join their Infrastructure & Capital Projects team, focusing on delivering major capital projects in the energy and utilities sectors. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience throughout the project lifecycle and strong communication skills. This role offers flexible working arrangements alongside a broad array of benefits, including health perks and contributions to community initiatives.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

Annual performance-based bonus

Generous pension scheme

Share ownership opportunities

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure and capital projects.
• Strong expertise in managing project/programme lifecycle.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice on capital project development.
• Manage delivery models for capital projects.
• Lead teams on complex assignments to ensure project success.

Skills

Self-motivation

Creative thinking

Strong communication skills

Team collaboration

Tools

Project Management

Governance frameworks

Change management techniques

Job description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

On the back of continued success across our Energy & Utilities practice, we are looking for talented people to join our growing Infrastructure & Capital Projects team. We work very closely with all our clients, build strong interpersonal relationships and pride ourselves on our ability to ‘walk the talk’. We provide strategic advice on all aspects of capital projects development and delivery, including business case development, commercial arrangements, financial structures, complex procurement advice and programme set-up.

We are particularly interested in those who have practical ‘hands on’ experience with infrastructure and capital projects and an interest in:

• Design, set-up, governance, assurance and controls for major capital projects.
• Delivery of major capital projects and change programmes.
• Working across the energy and utilities sectors.

While successful candidates will have a good technical understanding of their field, deep specialism is not the only facet of PA consultants; we also want ingenious people who can turn highly technical detail into simple concepts and communicate this clearly to anyone from boardroom to factory floor.

Our consultants should be able to adapt their style to work effectively with clients and inspire confidence. We’re looking for someone with these attributes:

• Self-motivation and ability to manage their own workload effectively.
• Creative and open minded, enjoying learning and trying new ways of doing things.
• Strong communication, presentation creation, delivery and document writing skills.
• A great team member in multi-discipline teams.

We are looking for talented people with hands on experience of the full project and programme lifecycle, with a blended commercial, procurement, engineering, delivery and supply chain acumen to help our energy & utilities clients solve some of their most challenging problems in the delivery of their major projects.

Technical skills:

• Project & Programme Management (capital and operational work programmes) – in depth knowledge and experience managing all or parts of capital projects and a strong understanding of key activities across the infrastructure delivery project/programme lifecycle
• Delivery Models – a good understanding of collaborative delivery models to help drive value in capital-intensive projects, including alliancing, partnerships and other innovative delivery models and a good understanding of relevant industry-standard forms of contracts such as NEC.
• Governance – experience providing advice to public and private sector clients on the design and optimization of governance arrangements for major capital infrastructure programmes
• Assurance – experience of designing and implementing assurance arrangements and/or delivering assurance reviews for major capital programmes
• Project/Programme/Portfolio Management Controls – experience of designing, implementing and optimizing project/programme/portfolio management & controls capabilities and PMOs on major capital programmes
• Business Change & Transformation – good understanding of change management techniques with experience of managing complex change and transformation projects/workstreams to enhance major capital infrastructure programmes

Consulting Skills:

• High-quality outputs – this means report-writing and presentation skills need to be strong (e.g., an ability to distil complex insights into easy-to-understand presentations and reports that could be understood across all levels of an organisation).
• Team management – able to lead small (2-5 people) teams deliver highly complex and strategically important assignments. This includes day-to-day activity management, project team wellbeing, and management of risks and issues on the assignment.
• Communication – a strong communicator able to structure presentations in a compelling manner and capable of engaging with a range of client stakeholders to positively influence client outcomes.
• Future trends – an appreciation for new, and emerging sector capabilities and trends affecting the acceleration of the energy transition. Able to form views and discuss wider topics with our clients.

We offer flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

Find out more about Life at PA and our extensive benefits, including health and lifestyle perks, annual leave, generous company pension scheme, opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives, annual performance-based bonus, PA share ownership, and tax efficient benefits.

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.