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Change the World.\nAt AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.\nThere has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.\nWe're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.\n Start here. Grow here. \nAt AECOM, we are recruiting a Planner-Rail projects to join us in our Dublin office.\nHere’s what you’ll do: \nYour day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities:\nProgramme Scheduling & Project Controls Responsibilities\nDevelop detailed project schedules and Gantt charts from first principles using Primavera P6, aligned with the Delivery Programme’s standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).\n\nIdentify and define all project activities, tasks, milestones, and deliverables across the full project lifecycle, including Feasibility, Design, Statutory Planning, Procurement, Construction, and Operational Readiness.\n\nCollaborate with Project Managers and key stakeholders to establish realistic activity durations, sequencing, and resource assumptions.\n\nDevelop and manage logic ties, dependencies, leads, lags, and float, ensuring accurate critical path identification for each project.\n\nIntegrate individual project schedules into a consolidated Master Programme Schedule in Primavera P6 to provide a portfolio-level overview of the Capital Investment Programme (CIP).\n\nMaintain and update individual project schedules on a monthly reporting cycle, ensuring timely updates to the integrated Master Programme for enterprise-wide reporting.\n\nConduct contractor programme reviews, schedule risk assessments, and critical path analysis during tender evaluations and throughout project delivery.\n\nAssess project changes and variations to determine impacts on programme, budget, and risk.\n\nSupport the implementation and monitoring of Earned Value Management (EVM) across the project portfolio.\n\nPrepare and contribute to programme and project performance reports for the Project Management Team and senior stakeholders.\n\nDevelop cost-loaded schedules to support cash flow forecasting and financial planning.\n\nProvide administrative and analytical support within the Project Controls team, including data analysis, validation, and preparation of summary documentation.\n\nFacilitate cross-project scheduling workshops and meetings with design consultants, contractors, and internal teams to align methodologies, assumptions, and delivery strategies.\n\nInterface with pre-construction, design, construction, and capacity planning teams to support project kick-off, budget development, and construction timeframe planning.\n\nWork closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assess schedule impacts arising from new designs, materials, construction techniques, or methodologies.\n\nMaintain strong collaboration with the Cost & Risk Management team to enable accurate spend forecasting, risk identification, and mitigation planning.\n\nPerform programme controls analysis and develop summary-level reports and ad-hoc analyses to support decision-making by the Programme Controls Manager.\nWorking Within a Multi-Disciplinary Team & Stakeholder Management\n\nFoster a positive, collaborative, and high-performance culture within the scheduling team, encouraging ownership, continuous improvement, and best-practice scheduling outcomes.\n\nBuild and maintain strong, professional, and proactive relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the programme controls function and the wider project delivery environment.\n\nProvide timely, accurate, and clear responses to scheduling-related queries and requests for information, supporting informed decision-making and effective programme delivery.\n\n Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?\nHere’s what we’re looking for: \nAs the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our primary infrastructure markets along with having the following qualfications and experience.\nBachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience, with years’ relevant experience in project planning and scheduling.\n\nDemonstrated ability to coordinate, integrate, and manage multiple sources of schedule inputs and performance data into a consolidated master scheduling platform, producing accurate project and programme status reports.\n\nProven experience developing critical path schedules from first principles, including leading planning workshops, interviewing project team members, and establishing robust schedule logic.\n\nStrong capability in defining, agreeing, and managing progress measurement and reporting methodologies with contractors and delivery partners.\n\nExtensive experience working on large capital programmes, with deep exposure to pre-construction planning and scheduling, and delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder development projects.\n\n Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more!\nFor further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.\n#AECOM#Rail#Contract#Metro\nAt AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.\nAbout AECOM\nAECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.\nFreedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity\nYou will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.\nYou will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.\nAECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.\nJoin us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.\nWe are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. 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