Bristol-Based Assistant Project Manager – Major Projects

LGBT Jobs; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities

Job summary

National Highways is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support Major Projects in Bristol, with regional travel to offices and sites. You will assist Project Managers and workstream leads, turning strategies into practical, safe, and cost-effective plans while contributing to planning, governance, quality assurance and health & safety.

You will help develop schedules, manage inputs from multiple teams, prepare reports, and monitor progress to ensure on-time delivery and adherence to budgets.

Qualifications

• Suitable project management qualification or equivalent relevant experience, ideally with membership of, or a commitment to work towards membership of, an appropriate professional body (i.e. APM).
• Experience of supporting project or programme delivery in a complex, multi-disciplinary or matrix environment.
• Good understanding of health and safety, quality and governance requirements within project delivery.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, with the ability to coordinate several activities, maintain accurate records and manage competing priorities.
• Strong collaboration, stakeholder, communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to bring together contributions from a wide range of teams and disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation and review of strategies, workstream plans and delivery arrangements, ensuring agreed actions are practical, clearly owned and aligned with programme priorities.
• Develop and maintain proportionate project and programme management products, including integrated plans, milestone and look-ahead schedules, action trackers, risk and issue records, decision logs, governance products and handover packs.
• Coordinate inputs from work package teams, specialist functions, stakeholders, delivery partners and the supply chain to identify key milestones, interfaces, dependencies, constraints, commitments and decisions required to support effective delivery.
• Support the preparation of reports and briefing information, maintaining actions and commitments, tracking project readiness and progress, and highlighting matters requiring intervention or escalation.
• Analyse project and workstream information to identify emerging risks, gaps, inconsistencies and potential impacts on future activities, and support the development and monitoring of mitigation or recovery actions.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Planning & scheduling

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Project management qualification or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Job description

National Highways is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support Major Projects in Bristol, with regional travel to offices and sites. You will assist Project Managers and workstream leads, turning strategies into practical, safe, and cost-effective plans while contributing to planning, governance, quality assurance and health & safety.

You will help develop schedules, manage inputs from multiple teams, prepare reports, and monitor progress to ensure on-time delivery and adherence to budgets.