Assistant Project Manager

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Job summary

A leading energy company in Scotland is looking for an Assistant Project Manager to support Overhead Lines projects. The role involves planning and supervising project delivery, ensuring compliance with internal policies. Ideal candidates will have project management skills and a clear understanding of UK infrastructure. This position offers competitive benefits including a company car, health care, and a discretionary bonus.

Benefits

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Discretionary bonus scheme

Recommend a friend rewards

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely at all levels.
• Demonstrated effective prioritisation and workload planning skills.
• Reasoned decision making without procrastination.
• Understanding of the basic construction elements of the UK infrastructure.
• Full UK driving license with willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Support Overhead Lines projects on the SPEN contract in Scotland.
• Assist the Project Manager in planning, execution, and supervision.
• Manage aspects of delivery projects including interfaces and compliance.

Skills

Clear communication skills

Time-management

Reasoned decision-making

Understanding of UK electrical infrastructure

Project Management qualification

Education

Project Management qualification(s) or Degree/Higher Education

Job description

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Electricity Transmission team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

As an Assistant Project Manager, you’ll support Overhead Lines projects on our SPEN contract in Scotland.

You’ll support the Project Manager in the planning, execution and supervision of their allocated project(s) to ensure it meets the strategic objectives of the business, delivered both on time and within the prescribed budget.

You’ll assist with the management of all aspects of delivery projects; including but not limited to third party interfaces, sub-contract arrangements, resource requirements, DCO compliance / discharge and equipment requirements.

You’ll always ensure that all activities are conducted in accordance with any relevant internal or external policy or procedure and remain fully compliant with legislation.

Are you proactive and passionate about navigating projects to achieve the best possible outcome? We want to hear from you!

What you’ll bring

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely at all levels, with the aptitude to distil complex messages for presentation to senior managers
• Ability to demonstrate effective prioritisation, time-management and workload planning skills
• Reasoned decision making – ability to assess and draw logical actions without procrastination
• Understanding of the basic construction elements of the UK electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure.
• Project Management qualification(s) and or Degree / Higher Education (preferred but not compulsory).
• Full UK driving license - willingness to travel to and work from all sites throughout the UK

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Standby / Overtime / Call out

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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