Assistant Project Manager - Highways

EDF UK; Leiston; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in Leiston is seeking an Assistant Project Manager - Highways to oversee complex highway projects. The ideal candidate will ensure project delivery aligns with safety, quality, and cost parameters. Essential skills include NEC contract experience and a degree in civil engineering. This role offers a salary of £55,000 - £65,000 plus benefits, along with opportunities for career growth in a dynamic team setting.

Benefits

Annual leave of 28 days, increasing to 30 after 5 years.

Up to 5% annual bonus.

Defined contribution pension scheme.

Flexible benefits allowance.

Qualifications

• Must have experience managing highway construction in regulated environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills required.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and delivery of project work packages.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders and contractors.
• Manage issues within contracts in a timely manner.

Skills

NEC Contract experience

Managing contractors on highway construction projects

Interpreting technical schematics

Knowledge of CDM Regulations

Experience with Common Data Environments

Education

Degree in civil engineering or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

CEMAR

Viewpoint

Job description

Company Description

Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.

Assistant Project Manager- Highways

Location: Sizewell C, Leiston / Rendlesham- Suffolk (onsite 5 days a week)

Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Salary: circa £55,000 - 65,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits

Benefits include:

• Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
• Bonus: Up to 5% annual bonus.
• Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution -15% employer contribution.
• Flexible Benefits: Additional allowance for a variety of benefits.

Closing Date: Friday 28th November 2025.

About the Role

As Assistant Project Manager - Highways, you will report directly to a Project Manager and support the wider team in delivering activities across the full life cycle of a contract or work package. This includes engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning, ensuring delivery in line with safety, quality, time, and cost parameters.

Key Responsibilities

• Support planning and delivery of contract and project work packages.
• Demonstrate success in managing and developing engineering design, contract, and field execution strategies.
• Multi-disciplinary projects.
• Procurement and management of complex contracts.
• Control of costs, risk, schedule, and change.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, suppliers, and the project team.
• Respond to technical queries from the contractor.
• Manage and resolve issues within contracts/packages in a timely manner.
• Ensure deliverables are completed to scope, quality, and safety standards.
• Apply industry knowledge and experience from related infrastructure projects.

Essential Skills & Experience

• NEC Contract experience.
• Experience managing contractors, consultants, and advisors on complex highway construction projects in regulated environments.
• Proficiency in interpreting technical schematics and engineering drawings.
• Success in managing/developing engineering design for multi-disciplinary highway projects.
• Good knowledge of CDM Regulations.
• Experience using Common Data Environments for document control.
• Experience administering and delivering live construction contracts to high quality and safety standards.

Additional required Skills

• Degree in civil engineering and construction (or equivalent experience).
• Incorporated status (or working towards) with a relevant membership body.
• Experience in design and/or delivery of infrastructure projects.
• IT literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word/Excel).
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to reprioritise tasks in a fast paced, changing environment.
• Willingness to learn from both successes and failures.

Desirable

Proficiency with CEMAR, Viewpoint.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering complex highway projects that shape the future of infrastructure. You'll be part of a dynamic team, working on challenging projects with the chance to grow your career and make a meaningful impact.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.

About Sizewell C Limited

Sizewell C Limited (Sizewell C) is a nuclear site licensed company whose business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Sizewell C was formerly under the majority ownership of the EDF Group but is currently majority owned by HM Government and operates as an independent company. EDF remains a key shareholder in Sizewell C and the business therefore maintains close links to EDF as a part of its 'nuclear family'.

As a Sizewell C employee, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.

Additional Information

Join the team at Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.

It's not every day you get the opportunity to shape the working culture of what will be one of Europe's largest construction projects, while also helping Britain to reach its target of Net Zero emissions by 2050. That's one of the reasons Sizewell C will be unlike anything you've ever experienced before, and you'll need to be an exceptional professional to reach the high standards this critical infrastructure project demands.

The UK is experiencing a nuclear renaissance and Sizewell C - along with its sister project at Hinkley Point C in Somerset - is powering the change. We're ramping up at pace as we look ahead to the Financial Investment Decision in early 2025, and the start of construction soon after. With government fully on board and public opinion shifting significantly in favour of nuclear, there's never been a better time to join our project.

Privacy & Data Sharing

By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C's employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.