Assistant Project Manager

Mott MacDonald

For these positions we can consider candidates to be based in a number of locations including Bristol, Plymouth, Swindon, Cambridge, Reading.

Interested in working on major engineering projects, often at the cutting edge of technology?

Interested in joining a leading multi-million-pound organisation to work on a range of exciting schemes?

Do you wish to take on a role with excellent opportunity for long term career prospects and the ability to work across multiple sectors?

At Mott MacDonald, we are dedicated to tackling our clients’ toughest portfolio, programme and project challenges in order to achieve successful outcomes. We are a family of people excited to solve complex challenges that have a positive impact on the world, and we are always looking for like-minded people to join our team.

Owning to the expansion of our defence and energy business we have exciting opportunities for project management professionals to join our fast-growing team in the UK. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in some of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today. Within the Mott MacDonald family we are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for a number of key opportunities across a broad portfolio of both defence and energy programmes. All of the programmes are long term opportunities allowing you to grow and develop your career throughout.

We aim to have an impact, both on the teams we work with, and through the challenging engineering and infrastructure projects we deliver. We are looking for people who can demonstrate the following:

• Assists in establishing and delivering project specific objectives
• Provide key support to the senior leaders in the delivery of commission obligations and internal project performance
• Contribute to open communications across the project delivery and client teams
• Establish effective communications across the project delivery, client and stakeholder teams
• Implement problem solving and decision making
• Adopt programme and business management systems across project teams
• Control the internal and external commercial aspects of project across a range of contractual arrangements
• Mentor less experience colleagues in the skills of project management
• Contribute to securing opportunities and repeat business through the high quality of service delivery

Potential travel required in advert either 2/3 days a month or once a week depending on project.

Essential criteria:
Experience and Behavioural skills:

Demonstrate some project management and delivery experience;
Developing knowledge and application of project management methodologies;
Experience in successfully supporting the delivery of projects under supervision but with some responsibility;
Ability to work both independently and as part of a larger team;
Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment;
Relationship building skills –ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders;
Effective communication with client’s project team and business manager
Good analytical thinking and research skills;
Essential soft skills include self-motivation; taking initiative, adaptability and flexibility; effective listening, collaboration; insightfulness; and
Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.

Qualifications:

Educated to degree level
Working towards a relevant professional qualification with APM, CIOB, RIBA or RICS

Other:

Hold MOD security clearance (SC) or higher
Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients

Desirable experience:

Project delivery experience within the defence sector or similar technical sectors;
Experience in prioritising own workload and co-ordinating other team members;
Working knowledge of project management software

Qualifications & Professional Memberships:

Associate Member of APM (Association for Project Management) or equivalent

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