Assistant Project Manager

AtkinsRéalis; Colton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to manage project delivery services for water and defence clients. Responsibilities include ensuring project success, managing risks, and facilitating communication. The ideal candidate will have a degree and experience in managing design commissions, excellent communication skills, and a customer-focused approach. Enjoy benefits like competitive salaries, training opportunities, and a hybrid working culture.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Employee rewards

Flexible holiday allowances

Training and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Degree qualified, with experience managing design commissions and/or design/build contracts.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage a team and demonstrate leadership.

Responsibilities

• Support successful delivery of projects to targets on programme, budget and quality.
• Manage project controls and identify contractual/commercial risks.
• Facilitate communication within project teams and clients.

Skills

Management of design commissions

Excellent communication skills

Team leadership

Contract management

Client relationship management

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Job description

Responsibilities

• Support the successful delivery of the project to agreed targets on programme, budget and quality.
• Providing Project Controls support the project team where required.
• Identifying and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis.
• Facilitating communication, coordination and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
• Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans.
• Protecting the commercial interest of AtkinsRéalis, including timely and accurate invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow (with the support of the finance community).
• Comparing revenue with predicted costs and identifying risk allowances, margin and provisions – at project set‑up and monthly thereafter, including Earned Value reporting.
• Supporting the closing out the project on completion, archiving project documentation, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.
• Support business development activities in line with our market strategies and governance.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified, with some experience managing design commissions and/or design and build contracts on large infrastructure projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership potential.
• Demonstrable experience in deploying various forms of contract, in particular NEC3 or 4.
• Self‑motivated and able to work both independently and within a larger multi‑discipline team.
• Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
• A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.
• Ability to adapt to different cultures and working environments to build rapport with clients.

Company Overview and Benefits

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and the UK Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure. With recent wins in growth markets, we have exciting opportunities for Project Managers and Senior Project managers to join our expanding team. Your role will be to manage the project delivery services to our water and defence clients, support the growth of our team delivering defence projects and ensure high levels of client satisfaction through the delivery of high‑quality project delivery and commercial management services. As an Assistant Project Manager you will help manage the delivery of major multi‑disciplinary design projects on our expanding portfolio of the biggest and most challenging projects across all Market Sectors.

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organisation. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.