Assistant Project Manager

National Highways; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure management organization seeks an Assistant Project Manager to support delivery of projects in the Yorkshire, North East region. The role involves managing project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with quality management standards, and fostering stakeholder relationships. Candidates should have a recognised engineering qualification and experience in civil engineering project delivery. This position offers a competitive starting salary and values diversity in applicants.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in delivering Civil Engineering projects.
• Understanding of contract management under NEC contracts.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of complex projects managing the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders and contractors.
• Comply with Quality Management System for successful project delivery.
• Assist in programme management and risk management against budgets.
• Ensure health and safety needs are considered in project planning.

Skills

Project management practices

Stakeholder management

Governance and quality assurance

Education

Recognised qualification in a relevant engineering discipline

Job description

Overview

At National Highways, we have an excellent opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join our Operations Directorate in Yorkshire, North East. The role will involve supporting the management and delivery of a portfolio of projects within the Region and overseeing the performance of project teams, multiple external contractors, and consultants. You will also be ensuring adherence to effective governance, quality assurance, health and safety, technical and specialist standards across the supply chain and National Highways. This role will be based across the Yorkshire, North East region in either one of our Darlington, Leeds or Wakefield offices.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of complex projects whilst managing standard allocated projects within the Region, across all stages of the project lifecycle, from design to introduction into service. Report on and review delivery performance, develop solutions that resolve issues, and to prepare project business cases.
• Develop, support and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Project Managers, key stakeholders, suppliers, contractors and across National Highways teams, to ensure full mutual understanding for the allocated projects.
• Comply with National Highways Operations Quality Management System (QMS) on all projects in scope to enable delivery within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, corporate technical, specialist health and safety.
• Assist in programme management, reporting and risk management against the budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources.
• Ensuring the health and safety needs of all parties involved in the projects are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.
• Recognised qualification in a relevant engineering discipline or significant experience in the delivery of their allocated Civil Engineering projects.
• Understanding of project management practices and controls.
• Reviewing project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners.
• Experience in managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding contract management under the NEC contracts.

Qualifications

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

About the Role

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

Salary and Diversity

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.