Capital Projects Engineering Consultant

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. 

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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 area 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. 

In this role you will: 

• 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 (listed below). 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.

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.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 770,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human resourcefulness every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to build value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

 

Closing Date for Applications: 31/12/2025  

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

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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 

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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