Operations - Capital Project Excellence, Senior Associate

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Operations

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in Capital Programs Excellence, within Operations Consulting, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients understand where they might have vulnerabilities and develop solutions to manage the risks involved. We advise and support our clients as they plan, deliver, and optimize their capital projects and programs.

Our team helps organisations deliver on their large scale capital programs and portfolios by providing assurance, tax, consulting, deals and forensics services across the capital program lifecycle. As part of the team, you'll utilize technology solutions to help our clients analyse, design and implement business changes related to their large scale capital programs.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years of Experience:
3 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred:
Master of Business Administration

Preferred Fields of Study:
Construction Management, Materials Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Project Engineering & Management, Risk Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Additional Educational Preferences:

MBA

Certification(s) Preferred:

Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS).

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thorough knowledge and/or a proven record of success leading efforts in consulting, designing, and implementing business process and technology solutions for large scale capital projects and programs including the following areas: 

• Understanding the common issues facing PwC's clients in the Engineering & Construction, Power and Utilities, Energy, Manufacturing, or Industrial Products Sectors; 
• Participating in the assessment and improvement of business processes, including leveraging Cora, Primavera Unifier or other project technologies; and,
• Identifying and addressing client needs by actively participating in client discussions and meetings, communicating a broad range of Firm services, and preparing and presenting clear, concise, and accurate client deliverables under aggressive timelines. 

Demonstrates thorough abilities success with managing the identification and addressing of client needs including:

• Manufacturing facilities; 
• Large scale construction programs; 
• Utility transmission (gas and electric) infrastructure; 
• Power generation including renewable energy assets; 
• Grid modernization programs; and,
• Data center construction and engineering. 

Demonstrates thorough abilities and/or a proven record of success driving initiatives and leading teams to identify and address client needs including: 

• Building trusted relationships with clients; 
• Developing an awareness of Firm services; 
• Communicating with the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner;
• Delivering clear requests for information, demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks;
• Communicating potential conflicts to a supervisor; 
• Defining and communicating value propositions; 
• Defining and measuring performance metrics; 
• Developing implementation plans and business cases while building client stakeholder and sponsor consensus and support; 
• Contributing to a positive working environment by building trusted relationships with team members, proactively seeking guidance, clarification, and feedback; 
• Providing guidance, clarification and feedback to less-experienced staff; 
• Designing, implementing, and supporting cross-functional business process improvements and associated technology solutions and enhancements; 
• Utilizing Data analytics skills and experience developing mathematical models in R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, and/or SPSS; 
• Working with analytics and construction management software packages including Cora, Power BI, Primavera P6, Primavera Unifier, @Risk, Tableau; 
• Demonstrating experience with data cleansing, conversion and migration; 
• Managing and directing on-shore and off-shore resources to organize and profile large data sets to develop risk models; 
• Preparing and modeling data in SQL, Tableau, and/or Qlik; 
• Utilizing process design mapping skills in Visio and/or IBM Blueworks; and, 
• Demonstrating proficiency in using MS Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and MS Project). 

Travel Requirements

Up to 60%

Job Posting End Date

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