Senior / Principal Consultant – Transport Capital Projects (Programme Advisory)

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

Job summary

A leading consultancy in transport is seeking talented individuals for its Infrastructure & Capital Projects team. This role involves delivering major projects, managing change, and providing strategic advice across road, rail, and aviation sectors. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with capital projects and strong communication skills. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly women and under-represented groups.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience managing capital projects and understanding infrastructure delivery models.
• Proven ability to lead multi-discipline teams on complex assignments.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to distill complex insights.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement governance and assurance for major projects.
• Deliver capital projects and manage change effectively.
• Provide strategic advice on capital project delivery.

Skills

Self-motivation

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving

Project management

Job description

Overview

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum 2-days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Join us in shaping the future of transport.

Are you passionate about creating smarter, more sustainable transport systems? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative, supportive environment? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

At PA Consulting, we’re a global management consultancy that works with organisations across the transport sector—rail, roads, and aviation—to tackle their most critical challenges and unlock new opportunities. As we grow, we’re looking for talented individuals to join our team in the South-East of England. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are especially keen to hear from women and under-represented groups in the transport and consultancy sectors.

On the back of continued success across our Transport 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:

Responsibilities

• Design, set-up, governance, assurance and controls for major capital projects
• Delivery of major capital projects and change programmes
• Working across Road, Rail or Aviation

What we’re looking for

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

Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

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 road, rail & aviation clients solve some of their most challenging problems in the delivery of their major projects. If you can fulfill one or more of the following roles in our team, we would like to hear from you.

Technical skills

• Project Delivery (capital and operational work programmes) – in depth knowledge and experience working on capital projects and a strong understanding of infrastructure delivery models, how they work in practice, and associated business operating model/change requirements.
• 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 Controls – experience of designing, implementing and optimising project controls capabilities (people/process/tools) 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.
• Analytics – a strong, logical and problem-solving mindset. Good working knowledge of statistics and modelling with Excel or other tools. Strong writing and authorship skills.
• Future trends – an appreciation for new, and emerging sector capabilities and trends affecting the road /rail / aviation industries. Able to form views and discuss wider topics with our clients.

What we look for in candidates

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates,so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Ready to make a difference?

Apply now and help us shape the future of transport.

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