Junior Project Manager

Catify Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Job summary

Catify Ltd. is seeking a proactive Junior Project Manager to support surveying, geospatial and infrastructure projects across the UK. You will work with an experienced PM to coordinate mobilisation through to completion, ensuring plans, resources and deliverables stay on track.

You'll develop towards full project management, gradually taking ownership of projects and expanding capability across planning, client relationships, risk, quality, health and safety.

Qualifications

• Five GCSEs including Maths and English.
• Experience coordinating projects or similar operations.
• Strong planning and organisation with multiple deadlines.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Willingness to travel across the UK and hybrid working.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of projects to scope, programme and budget.
• Coordinate projects from mobilisation to completion.
• Maintain project plans and information throughout lifecycle.
• Brief and coordinate survey teams and field operations.
• Monitor progress, costs and risks; assist with reporting.
• Assist with risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Contribute to continuous improvements and lessons learned.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Project coordination

Planning & organisation

Client communication

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Ownership

Team collaboration

Education

Five GCSEs incl Maths & English

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

We’re looking for a proactive, organised and commercially aware Junior Project Manager to support the successful delivery of Catify’s surveying, geospatial and infrastructure projects across the UK.

Working alongside an experienced Project Manager, you’ll help coordinate projects from mobilisation through to completion, ensuring that programmes, resources, survey activities, project information and deliverables remain on track.

You’ll work closely with clients, survey teams, internal departments and our supply chain, becoming an important link between project requirements and operational delivery.

This is a development-focused role with a clear pathway towards becoming a fully accountable Project Manager. As your experience grows, you’ll progressively take ownership of your own projects and develop capability across project planning, commercial management, client relationships, risk, quality, health and safety and project leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of projects to agreed scope, programme, budget and quality requirements.
• Take ownership of allocated projects or work packages under the guidance of a Project Manager.
• Maintain project plans, records and information throughout the project lifecycle.
• Brief operational teams before mobilisation and coordinate the timely delivery of survey outputs.
• Monitor project progress, budgets, costs, production rates and work in progress.
• Support weekly and monthly project reporting and commercial close-out.
• Identify scope changes, contractual matters, delivery risks and adverse trends, escalating these where appropriate.
• Build effective working relationships with clients, survey teams, operational colleagues and internal stakeholders.
• Attend client and project meetings, communicate progress and support the resolution of project queries and delivery challenges.
• Coordinate survey teams, equipment, subcontractors and project information against programme requirements.
• Support the preparation and implementation of risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
• Ensure teams receive the information required before starting work and maintain appropriate project risk records.
• Support quality checks to ensure project activities and deliverables meet client specifications and relevant industry requirements.
• Develop practical knowledge of PAS 128 and other surveying standards relevant to Catify’s work.
• Contribute to project reviews, lessons learned and improvements to processes, systems and ways of working.
• Progressively take on greater project responsibility as your skills and experience develop.

What Success Looks Like at Catify

• Projects and work packages are well organised and delivered to programme.
• Clear and timely communication between clients, project teams and operational colleagues.
• Accurate and up-to-date project, commercial and operational information.
• Risks, scope changes and delivery challenges are identified early and appropriately escalated.
• Survey teams have the information, resources and support required for successful delivery.
• Project outputs meet client expectations and required quality standards.
• Increasing independence and ownership as you progress towards Project Manager level.

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum of five Level 2 qualifications, such as GCSEs, including Maths and English.
• Experience in project coordination, project administration or a relevant operational environment.
• Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Confident using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, with good numerical and analytical skills.
• Clear and professional written and verbal communication.
• Confidence communicating with both clients and colleagues.
• A practical, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to take ownership, work independently and recognise when issues need to be escalated.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accurate project information.
• Experience within construction, surveying, utilities or telecommunications.
• Exposure to utility surveying, geospatial or infrastructure projects.
• Experience coordinating field-based operational teams.
• Understanding of project cost control, work in progress and commercial project management.
• Awareness of PAS 128 or other relevant surveying standards.

This is a hybrid role with regular requirements to attend project sites and client meetings across the UK.

Travel and occasional working away from your normal office location may be required depending on project needs. Additional hours and occasional weekend working may also be necessary to support operational and client requirements.

Most importantly, this role offers the opportunity to build practical project-management experience within a growing surveying and geospatial business, progressively taking greater ownership as you develop towards becoming a Project Manager.