Environmental Project Assistant — Grow into a PM

WSP; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP is seeking Assistant Project Managers to join our Environmental Project Management team in the PMO. You will support multi-disciplinary environmental projects, collaborating with Project Managers and Technical Leads to keep work within scope, on time and budget.

You’ll gain hands-on experience across the full lifecycle, learning structured processes and best practices in real project environments, preparing you to progress toward Environmental Project Manager roles over time.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting project or workstream delivery on Infrastructure or Environmental related projects.
• Comfortable with plans, schedules, risk logs, budgets and reports.
• High attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Able to organize and prioritise workload across multiple tasks or projects.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel to manage, analyse and track information.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of project proposals, defining scope, programme, resources and budget.
• Assist with key project management documentation, including plans, cost forecasts, schedules, risk registers and stakeholder logs.
• Coordinate project progress, tracking delivery against milestones.
• Ensure health and safety requirements for site visits are in place, including approvals.
• Organise meetings, capture outcomes and follow up on actions.
• Manage project information within Common Data Environments such as SharePoint and ProjectWise.
• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with technical specialists and suppliers.
• Support the administration of supplier contracts.

Skills

Microsoft Excel

MS Office Suite

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Tools

SharePoint

ProjectWise

Job description

WSP is seeking Assistant Project Managers to join our Environmental Project Management team in the PMO. You will support multi-disciplinary environmental projects, collaborating with Project Managers and Technical Leads to keep work within scope, on time and budget.

You’ll gain hands-on experience across the full lifecycle, learning structured processes and best practices in real project environments, preparing you to progress toward Environmental Project Manager roles over time.