Infrastructure & Capital Projects Consulting

Job Role: Infrastructure & Capital Projects Consulting

Location: London or Manchester (with expected travel)

Career Level: Consultant & Manager Levels

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

As a team:

In the Infrastructure & Capital Projects team, we shape how infrastructure is built and managed. We drive innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience maximised by the latest technologies. Infrastructure & Capital Projects is one of Accenture’s biggest global growth areas, shown by recent acquisitions announced in this area, and you will be joining at a pivotal moment of growth.   

The Opportunity:

Accenture is looking to recruit Capital Project Practitioners within our Infrastructure & Capital Projects team in the UK with experience of Capital Project capabilities including one or more of the following areas: project controls, planning & estimating, BIM, change management, scope management, risk management, cost management, sustainable operations, DfMA and delivery optimisation.

This role is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield construction and engineering programmes. This includes working with colleagues across the practice to consider the full lifecycle of their assets. 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 AI & digital transformation of their Capital Projects activities – while being at the forefront of learning and testing new AI advancements.

Help shape, sell and deliver projects that create tangible value by designing future ways of working – operating models, business functions and processes, and technology, whilst working closely with business and technology strategists, process owners and domain experts.

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 Infrastructure & Capital Projects 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 and use a human-centered approach to solve problems, frame opportunities and achieve innovation 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 AI & digital technologies combined with people, process and data to implement improvement programmes / projects within our target industries.

Target industries are Asset- and Energy-intensive industries including:

Energy, Utilities (water, power, nuclear), Chemicals

Infrastructure and Networks including Data Centres, Road & Rail, Telecoms, Construction Services

Candidates should be willing to travel to domestic and international locations

What’s In It For You

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, 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!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services, we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications: 30/06/2026

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

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.

Knowledge of, and possibly, experience implementing one or more of the following construction technologies into practice, such as:

Common Data Environment solutions e.g. ACC, Procore, Business Collaborator, SharePoint, ProjectWise

Project Management solutions e.g. Oracle Primavera suite (P6, OPPM, Unifier & Oracle Aconex), Hexagon PPM Ecosys

Reporting tools such as PowerBI

Cost, contract & estimating solutions management e.g. Oracle EPBCS, CostX, FastDraft, Contruent, CostOS, EcoSys

Sustainability management tools

Risk management systems

AI solutions e.g. ALICE, Nodes & Links, NPlan

Consistent track record in winning work for themselves and their team and delivering a high value programme or portfolio management service to the client (or demonstrable transferrable skills and experience).

Developing the argument, solution architecture, and implementation roadmap for clients’ transformation journeys.

Work effectively as a supportive team member or a domain expert and have the ability to lead delivery teams

Set yourself apart if you can demonstrate some of the areas below:

Professional qualification in construction & project management, such as APM, PMI, PRINCE2 or similar

An engineering or science subject area or possess suitable experience in lieu of qualification.

Strong, validated capability in successful project, programme or portfolio management of complex schemes, especially during their development phase.

Has worked in consulting team delivery and depending on experience team leading roles with a track record of managing and delivering projects successfully on time and on budget

Good client contacts and industry network is highly desirable