Assistant Project Manager - Water Sector

Stantec; Ireland; On-site; EUR 38,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join our Water Sector team in Ireland. Based in Dublin or Galway, you will support multidisciplinary projects, ensuring technical excellence, on-time and on-budget delivery for public infrastructure clients.

You will work with experienced project managers, engineers and contractors to plan and schedule, track budgets and milestones, manage risks, and ensure safety, quality and environmental standards are met.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management, project coordination or engineering roles.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders and manage multiple works.
• Postgraduate experience in water, energy or utility/infrastructure sectors.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and scheduling of projects and programmes.
• Track budgets and milestones, manage risks and issues.
• Ensure alignment with safety, quality and environmental standards.
• Collaborate with engineers, contractors and clients to deliver on time and to budget.

Skills

Project management

Coordination

Engineering

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 post graduate experience relevant experience in 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.

About Stantec

Whether you’re starting out on your engineering career or are looking for a fresh challenge, Ryan Hanley, now part of Stantec, is a great career move.

Based in Dublin, Galway, Castlebar and Cork, we are actively recruiting for team players with experience in any of the following areas – water and wastewater treatment process and network design, integrated network management, structural design, site development, road and bridge engineering, project management and administration.

You’ll be working for a dynamic company with an excellent reputation in the industry.

Ryan Hanley, now part of Stantec, offers a great working environment amongst friendly professionals with an emphasis on teamwork. It’s a company where your ideas and opinions will be valued and your efforts recognised and rewarded.

We have been awarded the silver Investors in Diversity accreditation by the Irish Centre for Diversity for our commitment to quality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workplace.

Other Locations: Galway, Dublin