Assistant Project Manager - Water Sector

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Ireland; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in the water sector is looking for an Assistant Project Manager in Ireland. The role includes managing multidisciplinary projects, ensuring on-time and budget delivery. Ideal candidates will have project management or engineering experience, a strong ability to build relationships, and a passion for public infrastructure. Opportunities for career development are available as part of a supportive project management community.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in project management, project co-ordination, or engineering.
• Ability to build and maintain successful working relationships.
• Demonstrates initiative in a workplace environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary projects in the water sector.
• Plan and schedule project tasks, track budgets, and manage risks.
• Ensure projects meet safety, quality, and environmental standards.
• Collaborate with engineers, contractors and client teams to deliver projects on time and within scope.

Skills

Project management

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Self-motivated

Team collaboration

Education

Postgraduate experience in relevant 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.