Capital Projects Engineering Consultant

Overview

Job Role: Industry X Infrastructure & Capital Projects - Consultant

Career Level: Consultant (CL9)

Location: London, Manchester (with expected travel)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

In Industry X we shape the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X Team drives innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience maximised by the latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We ve been helping businesses embrace and implement the new for years; it is critical we apply this to all partners working in the Capital Projects & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Products lifecycles, to fuel their next level of growth.

The Opportunity

Accenture is looking to recruit capital project practitioners within our Infrastructure & Capital Projects (I&CP) team in the UK. We are seeking individuals with broad experience and knowledge of capital project across the lifecycle. Capabilities sought include skills that help our clients' projects perform. This includes areas such as: project controls, cost management, planning & scheduling, risk and the ability to setup, design and delivery interventions. This role will focus on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield construction and engineering programmes. We digitise, optimise and transform our clients' traditional ways of delivering throughout the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Help clients target and deliver value through the digital transformation of their capital projects activities.
• Help shape, sell and deliver projects that create tangible value by designing future ways of working - operating models, business processes, and technology, whilst working closely with business and technology strategists and process owners.
• Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally, and externally. This includes receiving and providing (based on experience) coaching and career development across the Industry X practice.
• Use data and analytics to drive decision making, implement new ways of working and change operational behaviours.
• Provide points of view on key industry challenges and trends and present an impetus for change in industry context.
• Support and lead (depending on scale of opportunity) the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).
• Support client innovation workshops using a human-centered approach to solve problems, frame opportunities through collaboration and co-creation.

The Person

The successful candidate will have good knowledge in one or more core Infrastructure & Capital Projects industries. They will apply digital technologies combined with people, process and data to implement improvement programmes / projects within these.

Target industries include;

• Transmission & Distribution, Utilities (water, power).
• Infrastructure and networks including road & rail,
• Construction services.

Candidates should be willing to travel to domestic and international locations on occasion.

Experience & Skills

We are looking for experience across a selection of the following skills:

• Experience of successful delivery of complex and ambitious projects from a professional programme & project management (client facing) perspective to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Experience of key project controls disciplines such as schedule, risk, change and cost management within large, complex infrastructure and capital projects.
• Consistent track record of delivering high value programme or portfolio management service to the client (or demonstrable transferrable skills and experience).
• Developing the business case and roadmap for clients' transformation journeys.
• Work effectively as a supportive team member or a domain expert.

Set yourself apart if you can demonstrate some of the areas below:

• Strong, validated capability in successful project, programme or portfolio management of complex schemes, especially during their development phase.
• Experience of project controls and dashboarding tools e.g. Oracle, Power BI, Tableau.
• An engineering or science qualification or possess suitable experience in lieu.
• Knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).
• Knowledge and understanding of the different contracting types for capital projects (e.g. FIDIC, NEC, PW-CF1).
• Experience of large-scale delivery and organisational change management.
• Good client contacts and industry network is highly desirable.

What's in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role to deliver the first-class services we are known for.

Locations

• London
• Manchester

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Closing Date for Applications: 31/10/2025

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