Assistant Project Director

4 weeks ago


England, United Kingdom KPMG UK Full time

Assistant Manager - Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls (MPA) - 104024
Plus network of 20 offices nationally:

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we work with an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.
We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SRO’s at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.
Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, from working for project owners, contractors, engineering consultants and others in the UK and overseas.
We hand pick our people because they’re our most important asset, and people pick us because we really mean that.
This role requires previous experience ideally gained from infrastructure-related projects and programmes, but we’ll happily consider candidates with experience in other relevant fields.
For this opportunity, we’re looking for candidates with some post-qualification experience primarily built around the planning, scheduling and project controls area of major projects and programmes. This could be as a contractor, consultant, or within a government role.

This includes producing high-quality outputs with serious attention to detail
· Advising our clients on planning strategies and different scenarios, identifying the impact of these scenarios on their goals
· A good, applied understanding of planning including managing tasks in relation to the development, update, monitoring and reporting of schedules; risk management; identification of opportunities for improvement and implementation of best practice
Experience in major projects and programmes, ideally in infrastructure of one of our priority sectors of transport, defence, power and utilities or nuclear
Investigating schedule and cost performance, defining variance, causes and providing mitigating options
Proficiency in using Excel, MS Project and Oracle P6
An ability to build and maintain great relationships and a desire to network across our firm

Enhancing project and programme controls
Troubled project/programme reviews
Delay and scenario analysis
To discuss this or wider Deal Advisory roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.

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