Planner - Rail projects

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.  

At AECOM, we are recruiting a Planner-Rail projects to join us in our Dublin office.

Here’s what you’ll do: 

Your day-to-day will include but not be limited to the following tasks and responsibilities:

Programme Scheduling & Project Controls Responsibilities

• Develop detailed project schedules and Gantt charts from first principles using Primavera P6, aligned with the Delivery Programme’s standard Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

• Identify and define all project activities, tasks, milestones, and deliverables across the full project lifecycle, including Feasibility, Design, Statutory Planning, Procurement, Construction, and Operational Readiness.

• Collaborate with Project Managers and key stakeholders to establish realistic activity durations, sequencing, and resource assumptions.

• Develop and manage logic ties, dependencies, leads, lags, and float, ensuring accurate critical path identification for each project.

• Integrate individual project schedules into a consolidated Master Programme Schedule in Primavera P6 to provide a portfolio-level overview of the Capital Investment Programme (CIP).

• Maintain and update individual project schedules on a monthly reporting cycle, ensuring timely updates to the integrated Master Programme for enterprise-wide reporting.

• Conduct contractor programme reviews, schedule risk assessments, and critical path analysis during tender evaluations and throughout project delivery.

• Assess project changes and variations to determine impacts on programme, budget, and risk.

• Support the implementation and monitoring of Earned Value Management (EVM) across the project portfolio.

• Prepare and contribute to programme and project performance reports for the Project Management Team and senior stakeholders.

• Develop cost-loaded schedules to support cash flow forecasting and financial planning.

• Provide administrative and analytical support within the Project Controls team, including data analysis, validation, and preparation of summary documentation.

• Facilitate cross-project scheduling workshops and meetings with design consultants, contractors, and internal teams to align methodologies, assumptions, and delivery strategies.

• Interface with pre-construction, design, construction, and capacity planning teams to support project kick-off, budget development, and construction timeframe planning.

• Work closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assess schedule impacts arising from new designs, materials, construction techniques, or methodologies.

• Maintain strong collaboration with the Cost & Risk Management team to enable accurate spend forecasting, risk identification, and mitigation planning.

• Perform programme controls analysis and develop summary-level reports and ad-hoc analyses to support decision-making by the Programme Controls Manager.

  Working Within a Multi-Disciplinary Team & Stakeholder Management

• Foster a positive, collaborative, and high-performance culture within the scheduling team, encouraging ownership, continuous improvement, and best-practice scheduling outcomes.

• Build and maintain strong, professional, and proactive relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the programme controls function and the wider project delivery environment.

• Provide timely, accurate, and clear responses to scheduling-related queries and requests for information, supporting informed decision-making and effective programme delivery.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Here’s what we’re looking for: 

As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our primary infrastructure markets along with having the following qualfications and experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience, with years’ relevant experience in project planning and scheduling.

• Demonstrated 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.

• Proven experience developing critical path schedules from first principles, including leading planning workshops, interviewing project team members, and establishing robust schedule logic.

• Strong capability in defining, agreeing, and managing progress measurement and reporting methodologies with contractors and delivery partners.

• Extensive 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.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.

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About AECOM

AECOM 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.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You 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.

You 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.

AECOM 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.

Join 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.

We 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. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.