Job Role: Engineering and R&D Consultant

Location: UK (with expected travel)

Career Level: Consultant

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

As a team:

In Industry X we shape the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X Team drives innovation by delivering outstanding consultancy based on our collective industrial experience and latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We've been helping businesses adopt and implement the new for years; it is critical we apply this to manufacturers and products companies, service organizations and software companies, to fuel their next level of growth.

Our Consulting professionals design and implement process and change interventions that integrate strategy, technology, data and people to enable process improvements that build value for clients. We focus on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation within their core manufacturing and operations throughout the full lifecycle of their assets from capital projects through operations and ongoing support. We digitize, optimize and transform our clients traditional ways of planning, producing and shipping to be more agile and dynamic.

In this role you will learn:

• How to challenge yourself and take risks in a supportive and fail fast culture

• How to engage clients to understand key challenges and provide solutions to real problems across a variety of industries.

• Leading or playing a prominent role in shaping or delivering business or digital transformation programs

• Ability to apply thought leadership and critical thinking to all types of challenges and use it to drive high quality outcomes.

• The ability to recognise industry / technology patterns and to adapt in new contexts

As an Engineering and R&D Consultant you will:

• Apply your experience to help build solutions to client challenges in the product development space, working across varying industries and functions

• Work with client stakeholders to develop relationships, build a case for change. Use your skills, creativity and knowledge to deliver results to clients

• Play key roles within our clients Digital transformations across people, process, data & technology

• Innovate approaches to help develop the team; increase the knowledge base among the team, develop new assets and methodologies to differentiate Accenture, come up with new creative approaches to respond to clients.

• Support the wider Industry X growth initiatives through skills enablement, asset development and Industry eminence

• Be at the forefront of our practice in driving new opportunities and ways of working that will truly differentiate Accenture as a market leader in Engineering Digitisation, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Digital backbones

• Take on leadership roles within our clients transformation programmes centred around people, process, data and technology

• Understand our Clients strategic imperatives and challenges and then drive enabling solutions that pragmatically balance the clients as-is situation and constraints with new enabling practices and technologies ultimately into successful client outcomes.

Whats 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.

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