• Location: Helensburgh
• Working arrangement: 3 days on site, 2 days at home  
• Contract or staff options available

The Assistant Project Manager has a key role in supporting the overall management and coordination of this capital infrastructure project. The Assistant Project Manager assists in strategic planning, risk management, and quality control throughout the project lifecycle. Effective communication with stakeholders, contractors, and team members is paramount, as is the ability to adapt to unforeseen challenges and changes in project scope. This position requires a strong understanding of project management principles and a proactive approach to problem-solving, contributing to the successful execution of capital infrastructure initiatives. The candidate will be required to deliver at pace and demonstrate effective application of programme and project management skills, tools and techniques.

Assistant Project Manager responsibilities include:

• Support the PM in the management and administration of the contract.
• Support the PM to manage financial performance of projects to control expenditure against approved project budgets.
• Support the PM in undertaking project assurance and gateway reviews across the portfolio at key stages to evaluate progress, compliance, and probability of delivery to provide confidence to senior management, customers, and key stakeholders.
• Accountable for complying with all agreed Client processes and operating procedures and particularly those which are detailed under key infrastructure process.
• Monitors the performance of the organisation, technical support providers and supply chain, in terms of meeting their contractual obligations.
• Maintains productive relationships with the supply chain throughout the execution of the contract.
• Review and critique duration and cost estimates for the activities (reviewing and updating these at relevant points) and identifies critical dates relevant to the events.
• Monitors financial performance throughout the project and prepares reports for stakeholders in line with organisational requirements. Obtains estimates for the costs of activities, events and overheads.
• Applies metrics to identify cost trends and to update estimates of final costs.
• Reviews proposed changes and determines their high-level impact, requesting further information or clarification where necessary.
• Assesses all options relating to the proposed changes and estimates their impacts.

Essential:

• Degree qualified in engineering or project management.
• Membership of relevant professional body.
• Project delivery experience gained through previous project management related roles.
• Experience of infrastructure works, specifically within the built environment
• NEC4 experience.
• Commercial knowledge and understanding of the cost and value of packages as well as delivery experience, should be able to question and challenge stakeholders.
• Hands on experience of managing delivery using NEC4 contracts including management of change and stakeholder management.
• IT skills.

Desirable:

• Experience of managing projects in complex live operational environment, ability to follow due process in a nuclear or regulated facility.
• Experience of working in collaborative environment.
• Flexibility and adaptability to fast changing needs.
• Primavera P6 knowledge and understanding.
• Knowledge of CEMAR or similar tool.
• NEC PM accreditation or formal training.
• Nuclear awareness training (NIC or similar)