Planner-Rail projects 

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.