Accenture Construct - Program Integrator - Operational Planning and Interface, COM

THE WORK

You've Never Been Satisfied with “Good Enough.”

You didn't get into this to manage one piece of a project. You got into it to change how the world gets built.

At Accenture Construct, that's the job. You'll help deliver the data centers, power grids, rail networks, factories and public infrastructure that keep communities moving — smarter, safer and more sustainably.

You'll work alongside people who think big and act bold: project managers, engineers, technologists and strategists who pair real-world delivery with AI. And you won't be handed a slice of it. We take on whole programs, from early strategy through construction and handover, and we stand behind how they land.

Because “good enough” builds the past. You're here to build what's next.

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• (Internal Title: Program Management I )
  • Apply Program Management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the Program requirements
  • In direct consultation with Program staff, plan the appropriate means and methods to complete the required services from inception through to completion
  • Organize Program activities per the established mission and goals
  • Ensure the assigned workstream is fully supported from a consulting standpoint in an integrated, compliant, efficient, and cost-effective manner
  • Create and manage short and long-term Program goals and success criteria
  • Develop a budget and an operating and delivery plan for the Program, in consultation with any delivery partners and client
  • Determine the required human and material resources to complete the Program successfully
  • Formulate a resource allocation strategy and utilize this to distribute work and budgets between our delivery partners
  • Exercise authority in managing the work and controlling the delivery of the Program per the operating or delivery plan
  • Manage a large team (may consist of multi-firm and client resources) and leverage a diverse array of talents and delegation of responsibilities
  • Define the success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the Program life cycle
  • Develop an evaluation method to assess the Program's effectiveness and identify areas for improvement
  • Ensure Program goals are met in areas including client satisfaction, safety, quality, and team performance (collectively and individually)
  • Implement and manage changes and interventions to ensure Program goals are achieved
  • Design various focus and function meetings for Program initiatives
  • Facilitate meetings with stakeholders to deliver transparent communication impacting Program issues and decisions on services
  • Produce accurate and timely reporting of Program status and performance throughout its life cycle
  • Identify and analyze Program risks and implement mitigation strategies and contingency plans
  • Review and ensure adherence to the overall operating or delivery plan, scope, schedule, milestones, budgets, quality measures, and KPIs and address issues with corrective actions as appropriate
  • Deliver progress reports, proposals, and presentations to various audiences, including the Program team, client executives, key stakeholders, and Operations
  • Manage and negotiate scope changes
  • Clarify and resolve internal quality control checks and issue
  • Build and maintain a positive, high-performing team culture with an openness to constructive challenge, continuous improvement, implementation of lessons learned, and an overall ‘right-first-time” mindset Program
  • Monitor and manage clear and focused staff performance objectives (including non-company resources) to ensure overall excellence
  • Maintain a Program environment that is inclusive, and diverse and celebrates our differences
  • Devise and provide appropriate Program management training to other members of the team aligned with their level of knowledge and Program accountability

Working Conditions

• Office-based

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Experience:
  • Minimum of 18 years of experience in Project Management
• Knowledge of Program Management best practices
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• Licenses OR Certifications:
  • Holding a recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Skills and Competencies:
  • Extensive understanding of prevailing Project Management methods in addition to tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance
  • Demonstrated functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices
  • Proven success in providing project team leadership by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhere to their responsibilities, and achieve project milestones
  • Must maintain professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
  • Equipped to work independently and as part of a team
  • Effective forethought, with the capacity to identify and minimize risks well in advance of them becoming problematic to project delivery and client satisfaction
  • Equipped to detect and capitalize on others' strengths
  • A proven people leader with strong supervision, delegation, and capacity development experience, capable of leading effective, large, multi-disciplinary project teams
  • Accustomed to perceiving and ameliorating conflict and tension
  • Capable of working creatively and analytically in a forward-thinking, problem-solving environment, promoting strong leadership, teamwork, innovation and excellence
  • Accomplished in the understanding of interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Project Management software
  • Independently prioritize competing deadlines and risks to the Program Schedule
  • Experienced in identifying timely solutions to problematic situations
  • Expertise in how to align others who may have conflicting ideas and approaches
  • Skilled in relaying (written and verbal) complex ideas in a simplified way

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

Toronto $169,000 to $253,000

• Experience:
  • Minimum of 10 years of related experience on large capital projects
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or Finance
• Skills and Competencies:
  • In-depth experience in computer-based scheduling systems (Primavera P6 and MS Project)
  • Comprehensive knowledge of practices and procedures involved in project controls, with proven experience in the construction process
  • Solid understanding of core project control concepts (WBS, RBS, CBS, CPM-based scheduling, and Earned Value)
  • Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership
  • Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
  • Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving technical information (written and verbal)
  • Must foster positive relationships with various internal and external stakeholders
  • Independently tailor technical information for different audiences through presentations, reports, and other means
  • Expert ability to work collaboratively and independently in a structured, disciplined, technology-driven environment

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia $118,000 to $177,000

What's in it for you

• The biggest builds going. Hyperscale data centers, grid and generation, transit and rail, chip fabs, mines, water. If it's complex and it matters, it's on our list.
• You own the outcome. Not a workstream. Not a deliverable. Whether the program lands.
• AI that shows up on site. Program control that predicts instead of records. You'll use it, and you'll help shape it.
• Scale without the distance. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, on a team small enough that people know your name.
• Serious investment in you. Leadership development, technical upskilling and certification support.
• Work that outlasts you. People will use what you build for forty years without knowing your name. That's the point.
• Recognition that means something in this industry. Accenture Construct is ranked #6 globally in ENR's 2026 Top 50 Program Management Firms and #4 in Building Design + Construction's Top 80 Construction Management Firms for 2026.

About Accenture Construct

Accenture Construct is Accenture's global capital projects business.

The data centers behind AI. The grid behind the energy transition. The rail, water and airports everything else runs on.

We plan them, engineer them, deliver them and hand them over — and unlike most of this market, we're on the hook for whether they land on time. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. One team that owns the whole thing.