Senior Project Planner

Company: AECOM
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Location: City of Edinburgh
Job Description:

Primary Location: UK – Manchester, Level 4 – 100 Emban

Job Description

  • Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project.
  • Understands financial terminology and measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions.
  • Participates in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues.
  • May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks.
  • Participates in tracking action items.
  • Able to use drawings and specifications in the establishment of project baseline data.
  • Knowledgeable of accounting principles with extensive understanding of the manner in which the company establishes and documents the financial position.
  • Prepares revised cost forecast for select accounts.
  • Prepares analysis of progress trends and cost impact. May participate in reviewing and approving contractor invoices.
  • Works hands on with earned value monitoring.
  • Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations including preparation of variance analysis.
  • Compares actual cost to funding limitations. Prepares expenditure forecasts to identify critical points in project funding.
  • Reviews purchase order and subcontract commitments and expenditures. Maintains tracking database to insure that subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures.
  • Understands the manner in which profits on projects are budgeted and the extent to which the budget value is achieved.
  • Possesses the knowledge of scope control and change management. Involved in the tracking system to insure that project management is fully aware of detailed change order status.
  • Creates and assists with cost/schedule baseline budgets.
  • Familiar with basic cost/schedule integration and basic critical path analysis and other rescheduling concepts.
  • Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated cost trending.
  • Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting.
  • Participates in and may lead project cost review meetings.
  • Assists in procedure development and implementation.

Qualifications

  • Confident in leading meetings
  • Comfortable being a right hand person to a Project Manager
  • Developed and maintained integrated project schedules using tools such as MS Project, Primavera P6
  • Defined work breakdown structures (WBS), dependencies, milestones, and critical paths
  • Produced baseline schedules, monitored progress, and managed schedule change control
  • Forecasted resource demand and aligned plans with delivery and operational teams
  • Identified schedule risks, constraints, and mitigations
  • Generated progress reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for stakeholders

Additional Information

All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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

We are a DisabilityConfidentEmployer 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 DisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

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Posted: July 1st, 2026