Project Controls Consulting - Planning/Scheduling

Accenture; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Project Controls Consultant focused on Planning/Scheduling for Infrastructure & Capital Projects. The role is hybrid from Dublin or Cork with occasional travel, and you will join a team delivering state-of-the-art planning for complex transport and energy programmes.

You will develop integrated P6 schedules, challenge sequences from first principles, and align schedules with cost and risk.

Qualifications

• Proven planning/scheduling experience in transport or energy sectors.
• Strong Primavera P6 capability; develops baselines and progress reports.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Interest in first-principles methods, 4D/5D delivery and digital planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and assure integrated P6 schedules (concept-to-commissioning) with WBS/OBS and resource loading.
• Prepare baselines, updates and time-impact analyses aligned to NEC/FIDIC or client standards.
• Produce narratives, look-aheads and recovery options for leadership.
• Stress-test sequences using 4D simulation; optimise with linear planning.
• Align schedules with cost, risk and procurement; support QSRA and change control.
• Lead programme reviews, set planning standards and mentor teams.

Skills

P6 scheduling

Stakeholder management

First principles planning

NEC/FIDIC familiarity

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

Synchro

TILOS

Job description

Role: Project Controls Consulting (Planning/Scheduling focus) - Infrastructure & Capital Projects

Career Levels: Consultant / Manager

Location: Hybrid from Dublin or Cork, Ireland (with occasional travel)

As a team:

In the Infrastructure & Capital Projects team, we shape how infrastructure is built and managed. We drive innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience maximised by the latest technologies. Infrastructure & Capital Projects is one of Accenture’s biggest global growth areas, shown by recent acquisitions announced in this area, and you will be joining at a pivotal moment of growth.

About us:

We plan and orchestrate delivery for complex transport and energy programmes- bringing together first-principles planning with 4D/5D digital delivery, data analytics and connected platforms. Our planners combine P6 mastery with digital twins, 4D simulation and linear planning to build credible sequences, stress-test constraints, and generate data-driven insights that accelerate decisions across portfolios.

The opportunity:

We’re hiring industry specialists to push beyond “P6-only” planning. You’ll leverage BIM-integrated schedules, 4D visualisation, QSRA, and predictive forecasting to challenge and improve construction sequences from first-principles—grounded in productivity rates, access regimes and logistics. You will set programme planning strategy, standards and digital ways of working across suppliers and contracts.

Key responsibilities:

Planning & Scheduling (Core)

• Develop and assure integrated P6 schedules (concept-to-commissioning) with sound WBS/OBS, coding, calendars and resource loading.
• Prepare baselines, change updates and time-impact analyses aligned to NEC/FIDIC or client standards; maintain critical path and float integrity.
• Produce clear narratives, data-rich look-aheads and recovery options for leaders.

First-principles & Constructability (Manager emphasis)

• Build/challenge schedules from first principles using method statements, crew mixes and validated productivity rates (per shift, possession-outage).
• Stress-test sequences against logistics, access/traffic management, outage regimes and vendor lead-times; optimise through 4D simulation and linear planning where applicable.
• Influence construction strategy and commissioning logic with evidence-based insight.

Integration with Cost, Risk & Change

• Align schedule with cost estimates, risk registers and procurement; maintain traceability to milestones, BoQs and control budgets.
• Support QSRA and time-risk allowances; feed risk outcomes into re-sequencing and recovery.
• Administer schedule change control; quantify delay/acceleration and support commercial teams.

Reporting, Governance & Stakeholders

• Provide dashboards, S-curves and performance indices; communicate critical issues and recovery paths in plain, visual language.
• Facilitate collaborative planning with client, design, contractors and third parties.
• (Manager) Chair programme reviews and drive planning standards across suppliers.

Continuous Improvement & Standards

• Apply recognised schedule health checks (constraints, lags, open ends, negative float) and defensible assumptions.
• Capture lessons on productivity and access strategies; maintain standard libraries (norms, typical sequences).
• Contribute to planning methods, templates and training, including 4D/5D and data pipelines to dashboards.

Experience we are looking for:

Essential:

• Demonstrated industry planning/scheduling experience (preferably transport and/or energy).
• Strong Primavera P6 capability, building and maintaining schedules, progress updates and report development.
• Proven grasp of construction methods and productivity rates.
• Confident communicator and skilled at stakeholder management.
• Eager to deepen first-principles and QSRA/4D skills.

Manager-level:

• Experience leading collaborative planning, challenging from first principles, triangulating durations with norms/crews and supporting QSRA/time-impact.
• Owning programme planning strategy and standards, integrating schedule with cost/risk/procurement and setting digital planning ways of working.
• Leading and mentoring teams.

Set yourself apart with NEC/FIDIC familiarity, QSRA, TILOS/linear planning, Synchro/4D, Power BI analytics, multi-country exposure.

Lead the future of planning—from 4D/5D and digital twins to portfolio analytics—while shaping Ireland’s energy transition and transport modernisation, with global learning and clear progression.

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