Career Levels: Intermediate / Senior / Manager
Location: Ireland (with occasional travel)
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits

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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 across multiple levels 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. At senior levels you’ll set programme planning strategy, standards and digital ways of working across suppliers and contracts.

What You’ll Do

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 (Senior/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.

About You

Essential (all levels): Transport and/or energy planning experience; strong P6 capability; proven grasp of construction methods and productivity rates; confident communicator.
Level expectations:

Intermediate: Builds/maintains P6 schedules; updates progress; develops reports; eager to deepen first‑principles and QSRA/4D skills.
Senior: Challenges from first principles; triangulates durations with norms/crews; leads collaborative planning; supports QSRA/time‑impact.
Lead/Manager: Owns programme planning strategy and standards; integrates schedule with cost/risk/procurement; mentors teams; sets digital planning ways of working.

Desirable: NEC/FIDIC familiarity; QSRA; TILOS/linear planning; Synchro/4D; Power BI analytics; multi‑country exposure.

What’s in It for You
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.

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounted gym membership, emergency caring facilities, and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as applicable by law.

Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at accessIErecruitment@accenture.com.

Closing Date for Applications

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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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Capital Projects Planning/Scheduling Associate Manager

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