Senior / Principal Consultant – Transport Capital Projects (Programme Advisory)

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum 2-days per week. However the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Join us in shaping the future of transport.

Are you passionate about creating smarter more sustainable transport systems Do you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative supportive environment If so wed love to hear from you. 

At PA Consulting were a global management consultancy that works with organisations across the transport sectorrail roads and aviationto tackle their most critical challenges and unlock new opportunities. As we grow were looking for talented individuals to join our team in the South-East of England. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are especially keen to hear from women and under-represented groups in the transport and consultancy sectors. 

On the back of continued success across our Transport practice we are looking for talented people to join our growing Infrastructure & Capital Projects team. We work very closely with all our clients build strong interpersonal relationships and pride ourselves on our ability to walk the talk. We provide strategic advice on all aspects of capital projects development and delivery including business case development commercial arrangements financial structures complex procurement advice and programme set-up. We are particularly interested in those who have practical hands on experience with infrastructure and capital projects and an interest in: 

• Design set-up governance assurance and controls for major capital projects 
• Delivery of major capital projects and change programmes 
• Working across Road Rail or Aviation  

While successful candidates will have a good technical understanding of their field deep specialism is not the only facet of PA consultants; we also want ingenious people who can turn highly technical detail into simple concepts and communicate this clearly to anyone from boardroom to factory floor. Our consultants should be able to adapt their style to work effectively with clients and inspire confidence. Were looking for someone with these attributes: 

• Self-motivation and ability to manage their own workload effectively 
• Creative and open minded enjoying learning and trying new ways of doing things 
• Strong communication presentation creation delivery and document writing skills 
• A great team member in multi-discipline teams 

Qualifications :

What were looking for:

We are looking for talented people with hands on experience of the full project and programme lifecycle with a blended commercial procurement engineering delivery and supply chain acumen to help our road rail & aviation clients solve some of their most challenging problems in the delivery of their major projects.  If you can fulfill one or more of the following roles in our team we would like to hear from you. 

Technical skills 

• Project Delivery (capital and operational work programmes) in depth knowledge and experience working on capital projects and a strong understanding of infrastructure delivery models how they work in practice and associated business operating model/change requirements.  
• Delivery Models a good understanding of collaborative delivery models to help drive value in capital-intensive projects including alliancing partnerships and other innovative delivery models and a good understanding of relevant industry-standard forms of contracts such as NEC. 
• Governance experience providing advice to public and private sector clients on the design and optimization of governance arrangements for major capital infrastructure programmes 
• Assurance experience of designing and implementing assurance arrangements and/or delivering assurance reviews for major capital programmes 
• Project Controls experience of designing implementing and optimising project controls capabilities (people/process/tools) on major capital programmes 
• Business Change & Transformation good understanding of change management techniques with experience of managing complex change and transformation projects/workstreams to enhance major capital infrastructure programmes 

Consulting Skills 

• High-quality outputs this means report-writing and presentation skills need to be strong (e.g. an ability to distil complex insights into easy-to-understand presentations and reports that could be understood across all levels of an organisation). 
• Team management able to lead small (2-5 people) teams deliver highly complex and strategically important assignments. This includes day-to-day activity management project team wellbeing and management of risks and issues on the assignment. 
• Analytics a strong logical and problem-solving mindset. Good working knowledge of statistics and modelling with Excel or other tools. Strong writing and authorship skills. 
• Future trends an appreciation for new and emerging sector capabilities and trends affecting the road /rail / aviation industries. Able to form views and discuss wider topics with our clients. 

We know the skill-gap and somewhat need to tick every box can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you. 

Ready to make a difference

Apply now and help us shape the future of transport.

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Additional Information :

Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams and support our communities to deliver insight and impact solving the worlds most complex challenges. Were focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn) 

Were committed to advancing equality. We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

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