Associate - PMO (Capital projects)

Role: You will help run large capital projects (especially in mining, utilities, oil & gas or broader ENR) better (through schedules, cost control, risk management and digital tools), and deliver clear, high-quality analysis and recommendations to clients.

Job Responsibility:

Program governance & PMO operations: You help set up or improve the way big projects are managed (called a PMO – Project Management Office).

This includes:

• Creating clear rules for how decisions are made, how changes are approved, who is responsible for what, and how issues get escalated
• Building and analysing the overall project schedule (called Integrated Master Schedule)
• Running “what-if” scenarios to see how delays or changes will affect the timeline

Cost & performance controls:

You track money and progress on the project.

You will:

• Build analyses that show whether the project is over budget or behind schedule (using tools like Earned Value Management)
• Create simple, clear dashboards for senior client leaders so they can quickly see the health of the project and make decisions

Risk & safety management

You help the team understand and manage risks.

This means:

• Maintaining risk registers
• Calculating the impact of risks
• Suggesting ways to reduce or prepare for them
• Turning this analysis into practical recommendations the team can present to the client

Digital & advanced analytics

You use modern digital tools to improve project delivery.

This includes:

• Helping design how digital tools (like 5D BIM – which links cost and schedule to 3D models) will be used
• Running advanced schedule and risk simulations (Monte Carlo, scenario planning, etc.)
• Building Power BI or Tableau dashboards (control towers)
• Testing AI tools that can speed up work and leave the client with useful assets they can reuse later