Assistant Project Manager - Water Sector

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Galway; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join their Water Sector team in Ireland. The role involves managing multidisciplinary projects related to water resources and ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery. Ideal candidates will have postgraduate experience in relevant sectors, strong interpersonal skills, and a passion for client service. This position provides a great opportunity for early-stage professionals looking to develop their careers in project management within an innovative team.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in project management or project co-ordination is essential.
• Self-motivated individual with initiative.
• Ability to build successful working relationships and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary projects ensuring delivery on time and budget.
• Assist with planning, scheduling, and budget tracking.
• Support the development of innovative water solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers, contractors and stakeholders to deliver capital projects on time and within budget.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal teams.

Skills

Project management

Client service

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Risk management

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Postgraduate experience in water, energy or infrastructure sector

Job description

We are currently seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join our Water Sector team in Ireland. In this role you will have the opportunity to work within a dynamic environment, playing a key role in managing multidisciplinary projects, ensuring technical excellence, stakeholder satisfaction, and on-time, on-budget delivery of water related projects and programmes for our key clients. The role can be based in Dublin or Galway.

Stantec are an industry leading consultancy within the Water Sector. We are involved in a huge variety of projects across the sector – including those relating to water resources, wastewater networks and treatment, water treatment and supply, flood mitigation and other specialist areas. Our success has helped us grow as an organisation and this new opportunity is part of this growth.

As an Assistant Project Manager, you will work closely with experienced project manager, engineers, contractors and key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of capital projects and programmes. You will be building close relationships with stakeholders and helping to ensure that projects are delivered on time, to cost, and to a high level of quality. Excellent client service is a key expectation of our Project Managers.

You will assist with planning and scheduling, tracking budgets and milestones, managing risks, and ensuring projects align with safety, quality, and environmental standards. The position is perfect for someone at the early stages of their project management journey, especially if you are passionate about delivery of public infrastructure. You may also have opportunities to work directly on client teams, in a PMO role helping to manage a project or programme of work with the client team.

As a member of the Project Management community at Stantec you will be supported to keep developing your career.

If you are excited by the chance to join a team that are leading on innovative and sustainable solutions across the water sector then we would love to hear from you.

About You

To be considered for this opportunity you will need to have prior experience in a relevant role – such as project management, project co-ordination or engineering. You will need to have postgraduate experience relevant to the water, energy or other utility/infrastructure sector.

You will be able to demonstrate an ability to build successful working relationships, and be able to manage or co-ordinate works to meet deadlines. You will need to be self-motivated and show initiative in a workplace environment. You will also need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and work well as part of a team.

Finally, you will embody our passion for innovation and client service, with ambitions to tackle a range of challenges as the team looks to continue its growth within the sector.