Assistant Project Manager - Infrastructure & Highways

WSP USA; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join the Local Government Team in Gloucester. You will be central to a collaborative team, delivering highways, structures and geotechnical projects, with the expectation of being in the Gloucester office at least three days a week and collaborating with nationwide teams.

You will support delivery from feasibility through procurement and construction, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams while ensuring safety, quality and on-time delivery

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a range of project management activities, systems and processes.
• A good understanding of commercial and financial project management.
• Sound organisational skills and excellent communications skills.
• Experience in producing programmes using MS Project or similar software.
• Achieved, or working towards, professional status through the Association for Project Management or similar professional institution.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating multi-disciplinary project and design teams to deliver improvement schemes through feasibility, design, procurement, and construction support stages.
• Working closely with highways, drainage, structures, traffic, construction and other technical specialists to support integrated project delivery.
• Supporting the management of technical approvals, design reviews, design assurance, CDM, H&S, QA and technical review requirements.
• Supporting design-related activities where appropriate, including progressing surveys, design drawings, site measures, early risk reduction reviews, statutory undertaker information and related technical coordination tasks.
• Monitoring design programmes and managing interfaces between design, client, stakeholder and construction activities.
• Leading and supporting project management processes, including project planning, scope definition, fee estimates, risk analysis, roles and responsibilities, and regular reporting.
• Developing project management plans and producing weekly/monthly progress and project control reports for the client and wider business.
• Coordinating multi-disciplinary inputs across projects, including colleagues in other WSP teams and remote teams in the UK and overseas.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, colleagues, delivery partners and key stakeholders.
• Managing project fees, change control, value engineering/value management and the commercial position of assigned projects.
• Helping ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality, safety and technical standards.

Skills

Project management

Commercial awareness

Organisational skills

MS Project

APM status (professional)

Job description

WSP is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join the Local Government Team in Gloucester. You will be central to a collaborative team, delivering highways, structures and geotechnical projects, with the expectation of being in the Gloucester office at least three days a week and collaborating with nationwide teams.

You will support delivery from feasibility through procurement and construction, coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams while ensuring safety, quality and on-time delivery