Assistant Project Manager

Almondsbury, Gloucestershire
Morson Talent

Morson Talent are delighted to present an opportunity for a suitably experienced Assistant Project Manager to join our client s established team for work associated with a major energy infrastructure Project in Somerset. This is a 12month (renewable) contract position inside IR35. Based: Aztec West, Bristol.

Principle Accountabilities

• The Assistant Project Manager will support the delivery of part of the Project detailed design engineering activities for the life cycle of the contract in accordance with the overall Project schedule.
• He/She will have responsibility for successfully managing Responsible Designer (RD) and Nuclear Services Contracts ensuring that the engineering is delivered safely to cost, schedule and quality requirements meeting the needs of the Project.

Other Accountabilities

• Ensuring that work is carried out in line with Health and Safety, Schedule and Quality Assurance requirements
• Maintaining effective communications with all stakeholders and executing the Project strategies within the delivery of the contract
• Accountable for the delivery of the RD & Nuclear Services Task Order
• Proactively drive the delivery of a key scope area of the contract and associated activities to ensure they are delivered safely on time, to budget, meeting business & technical requirements
• Proactively monitor and manage the progress of the programme – track progress against milestones, deadlines, budget, funding and provide key stakeholders with associated reports
• Within the scope area, anticipate, manage and resolve issues within the contract. Identify risks and facilitate the resolution of all issues raised and escalate any issues
• Proactively managing the interface with the Responsible Designer and Nuclear Services contract management team and Technical teams on Project
• Identifying and coordinating the involvement of multiple stakeholders, including project management, document management, project controls, commercial and technical teams.
• Regular reporting of progress and issues (KPI)

This list is not exhaustive and the post-holder may be required to perform other tasks relevant for the project, to support the wider project management team, or to the personal development of the post holder.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Typically, degree or equivalent (in relevant science or engineering subject preferable)
• Previous experience in Project Management or Project Engineering on large or complex engineering or construction projects
• Knowledge of and experience in working with NEC contracts preferred
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Coordination skills and leadership
• Understanding of quality requirements
• Decision making and escalation ability for resolution of issues
• Budget and commercial awareness
• Ability to learn quickly and demonstrate evidence of using a problem-solving approach
• Ability to build strong working relationships with and effectively manage internal and external stakeholders
• Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation including CDM and Nuclear Site License requirements

Behaviours:

• Attention to detail
• Relationship building skills
• Self-starter
• Proactive
• Organisational skills
• Questioning attitude
• Receptive to change

Technical Competencies

• Can develop and adapt theories to deliver project milestones
• Demonstrable awareness of integrated management system and the different policies, procedures, standards and documents applicable to the function and role
• Ability to identify opportunities for improvements to procedures, processes and/or systems
• Good understanding of analysis tools and methods, combined with the ability to apply them
• Ability to extract and compile relevant data according to the task in hand, often from numerous sources
• Performs analysis of data highlighting and summarising relevant issues
• Maintains accurate and timely records (whether systems, databases, spreadsheets).