Assistant Project Manager

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading engineering firm as an Assistant Project Manager in Norwich, where you'll work on significant local projects. Collaborate with a dedicated team, ensuring timely project delivery while fostering client relationships. This role offers excellent career advancement opportunities.

Benefits

Work-life balance

Health & Wellbeing support

Flexible working arrangements

Development and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience managing project activities and processes.
• Understanding of commercial and financial project management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project team members to ensure timely delivery.
• Develop project management plans and reports.
• Maintain strong client relationships.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Professional Status through Institution of Civil Engineers

Association for Project Management

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role…

You will be Part of a highly collaborative team in Norfolk. As part of our Local Government team and you will deliver interesting projects for our client.

As an Assistant Project Manager, you will join our Local Government Project Delivery team, based in Norwich where you will have the opportunity to work on a range of significant projects within the County. Your role will include linking up with resources located in other WSP teams nationwide and in India.

WSP provides professional services on multiple long-term framework commissions and significant projects with a team of highly skilled Project Managers and Directors, we form a market leading force of Project Management excellence to support our clients, ensuring efficiency with rigorous attention to detail as a core principle. Our business model is designed to give a clear and structured career path for aspiring Project Managers.

If you have a passion for Project Management, but more importantly have a passion for innovation, looking to the future and adapting your work to meet the challenges of tomorrow, then we want to speak to you. The role offers excellent prospects for career advancement and development for the ideal candidate.

You Will

• Coordination between various project team members ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget and to the agreed quality standard.
• Developing project management plans including project scope, baseline programme, fee estimate, roles and responsibilities, risk analysis, technical review requirements and managing progress meetings, producing weekly/monthly reports, taking minutes and preparing agenda’s.
• Producing project control reports to meet client and business requirements.
• Developing, maintaining and implementing stakeholder management plans.
• Ensuring invoicing and cash collection is undertaken in accordance with business process and procedures.
• Prioritising client satisfaction through building and maintaining strong relationships with key clients, whilst forming trusting relationships with colleagues to ensure effective coordination for mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Deliver project and programme management services, prioritising client satisfaction through building and maintaining strong relationships with key client roles within National Highways.
• Develop project management plans including project scope, baseline programme, fee estimate, roles and responsibilities, risk analysis, technical review requirements and managing progress meetings, producing weekly/monthly reports, preparing agendas, taking minutes, and chairing internal and external meetings.
• Produce project control reports to meet client and business requirements e.g. financial monitoring and identification of change.
• Carry out change control including value engineering and value management.
  
  

What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate…

• 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.
• Achieved, or working toward, professional status through the Institution of Civil Engineers (or similar) or with the Association for Project Management.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team
  
  

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

About Us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 69,300 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Work-life balance

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.

Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Diversity

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote a culture of inclusivity.

Health & Wellbeing

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Med24 offers you and your family unlimited telephone access to an NHS doctor, available 24/7, with options for face-to-face video consultations. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.

Flex your time

To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.

We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development

We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

#WeAreWSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.