Project Manager

Company Description

Meeting the challenges of the energy transition and strengthening our sovereignty are among the key priorities of the 21st century. At the heart of these challenges, Assystem supports its clients in delivering their most strategic projects. To achieve this, our 8,000 Switchers leverage their expertise in engineering, project management, and digital solutions.

Your Future Team

You'll join Assystem's Infrastructure team supporting the successful delivery of major projects across water, environmental, utilities, energy, aviation, rail, marine, flood and coastal defence sectors.

Our team partners with leading public and private sector organisations to deliver complex infrastructure programmes, providing project management expertise from concept and design through to construction and handover.

Job Description Your Responsibilities

You'll support the successful delivery of infrastructure and capital projects throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with client expectations. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, you manage scope, programme, cost, risk, change, and stakeholder engagement to achieve successful project outcomes

Your main responsibilities include:

• Leading the planning, delivery and successful completion of infrastructure projects from inception through to close-out.
• Developing and maintaining project plans, programmes, budgets, forecasts and performance reporting.
• Managing project scope, risks, issues, change control processes and governance requirements.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams and providing leadership throughout project delivery.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with clients, stakeholders, suppliers and contractors.
• Monitoring project performance and implementing corrective actions to ensure successful outcomes.
• Supporting procurement, commercial and contract management activities, including NEC contract administration where applicable.
• Managing project handover activities, lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives.

Why Join Us?

Explore a wide variety of projects and careers within a strong group, ensuring stimulating and diverse assignments throughout your career.

Benefit from strong career development opportunities, with nearly 300 internal moves completed each year and 70% of managers promoted internally.

Benefit from supportive and accessible management that values your autonomy, initiative, and day-to-day development.

Qualifications Your Strengths and Requirements for Success

• Degree qualified (Level 6) or equivalent industry experience.
• Typically 5+ years' experience delivering infrastructure, engineering or capital projects.
• Proven experience managing project scope, programme, cost, risk and change.
• Strong understanding of project management governance, controls and delivery methodologies.
• NEC3 and/or NEC4 ECC Accreditation highly desirable and essential for water sector opportunities.
• Experience administering NEC contracts, including Early Warnings and Compensation Events.
• Strong stakeholder, client and supplier management capability.
• Experience leading or coordinating multidisciplinary project teams.
• APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent qualification (or working towards).
• Water and environmental infrastructure experience highly desirable.
• Experience gained within regulated infrastructure sectors such as water, utilities, energy, aviation, rail, marine or major civil engineering projects.
• Experience using CEMAR is advantageous.
• Strong communication, organisational and problem-solving skills with the potential to develop into a Senior Project Manager role.

Additional Information Diversity \& Inclusion

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and foster all forms of diversity within our company. Bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and the ability to dare are what matter most. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

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We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.