Assistant Project Manager

Join our team as an Assistant Project Manager and support the successful delivery of highways and local transport projects. This is an excellent opportunity to build your career within a leading consultancy, working on meaningful infrastructure programs that improve how people move through places and communities. You will gain broad exposure to project delivery while developing the confidence and capability to take on increasing responsibility. Flexible and remote working options are available.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the planning and delivery of highways and local transport projects, ensuring adherence to scope, programme, budget, and quality objectives.
• Maintaining project controls, including schedules, action trackers, risk registers, cost data, and reporting packs, and coordinating inputs from multidisciplinary teams.
• Developing effective working relationships with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to support successful project outcomes, and preparing progress updates and other client-facing materials.
• Preparation of reports
• Able to ensure tasks are carried out within agreed timescales and budgets
• Assisting with the resolution of engineering problems

Requirements

• BEng / MEng or MSc degree in civil engineering or equivalent
• Assisting site supervision of highway improvement schemes

Excellent spoken and written English

• Sound interpersonal skills and ability to converse with a wide range of Clients and colleagues across a number of engineering disciplines
• Actively working towards achieving CEng or IEng with the Institution of Civil Engineers (preferably)
• Understanding of Project Governance and Development Processes for Transport Scotland and / or Local Authorities
• Ability to research information and data without supervision and ability to find solutions to complex problems
• Preparing works packages, including bills of quantities, specifications and construction drawings
• Good understanding of relevant design standards, including Eurocodes and those of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges and Manual for Streets

Experience of CDM Regulations

• Excellent communicator with the desire to take on extra responsibilities and keep on developing your skills and our team
• Experience supporting client meetings, commercial administration and contract management activities
• A full UK driving licence where travel to client or site locations is required

Preferred

• Experience supporting highways, local authority or wider transport infrastructure projects
• Progress towards, or interest in pursuing, a recognised project management qualification such as APM, PRINCE2 and NECReg