Job Description
Assistant Project Manager / Project Manager, TRANSPORT PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM
Birmingham/London/Chester/Southampton/Edinburgh/Exeter, United Kingdom and Ireland
Ramboll is seeking both Assistant Project Managers and Project Managers and invite you to bring your expertise in Project Management into play as you provide project & programme management services for internal and external clients on a wide range of transport schemes including civils/highways/ports/aviation/ energy and water sectors. The role will involve multi-disciplinary management of exciting projects across the UK and Ireland with flexible working and close interaction with our teams and clients, occasional travel will of course be necessary.
To succeed in this role, you must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and experience of managing the design process and construction of transport projects. Are you our new project manager?
You will join our Project Management excellence team
You will be part of our wider project management community delivering a wide range of major transport construction projects in the UK and Ireland and overseas. The work is challenging, exciting and involves dealing with clients and a broad range of stakeholders, consequently it is vital for applicants to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and are able to form close and effective working relationships.
Our team’s culture is one based on inclusion, collaboration, openness and support, where enjoyment and passion in our work are fundamental. Ramboll offers flexible and part-time working arrangements.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, confident, capable and professional individual at the start of their project management journey keen to develop in line with international project management standards and interested in progressing to lead and manage increasingly more challenging and complex projects.
Responsibilities:
Initially you will support other project managers in delivering their projects working with varying degrees of supervision. Your key tasks and responsibilities will be to:
1. Assist in the delivery of projects from inception to completion ensuring that scope, contracts, programmes, change management, risk registers, budgets and QA procedures are all in place and maintained through the life of a project.
2. Help manage the design process through design workshops and project meetings.
3. Develop positive and collaborative working relationships with project team, clients and contractors.
4. Help manage sub-consultants as the project requires, typically this may be quantity surveyors, architects or specialist designers.
5. Day to day management of the project activities you are supporting including Monthly Reports, Meeting Minutes and (MS Project/P6) Schedules, and delivery of presentations when required.
6. Ensure coordinated and high-quality deliverables from our multidisciplinary teams.
7. Provide support to bid teams and handle preparation of proposals for multi-disciplinary tenders alongside the discipline team leaders.
8. Ensure fees/costs are prepared on time and correctly submitted with all necessary supporting information to facilitate prompt payment.
Your key deliverables over the first 12 months for this role will be:
9. Collaborating with the team in the delivery of projects to budget, time and quality.
10. Creating positive working relationships with design teams, clients and contractors.
11. Coordinating design/project deliverables and ensuring quality outputs.
12. Help in developing safe, sustainable and profitable solutions.
About you
13. Minimum HNC/HND in a civil engineering or related discipline or construction/project management, however a degree level qualification in these subjects is preferred.
14. Preferably an associate member or graduate member of an appropriate construction focused association or Institute (APM / ICE etc). If not currently a member of such an organisation you will be required to work towards and achieve this qualification within a reasonable agreed timeframe.
15. Knowledge and understanding in a project management role in the construction industry, preferably within a multidisciplinary engineering design consultancy.
16. Knowledge of bid management for multi-disciplinary opportunities.
17. Knowledge of construction and the design processes.
18. Knowledge of health and safety legislation, including CDM Regulations is desirable.
19. A basic understanding of the various types of procurement methods for construction projects and the contract/commercial administration requirements (e.g. NEC, JCT, ACE, ICE, GC Works, FIDIC.)
20. Excellent communication and IT skills.
21. Ability to write high quality reports and be able to interrogate financial information.
22. You can manage multiple stakeholder requirements and then communicate these requirements back to the project teams, often across geographical borders.
23. Capable of working on multiple projects and to be able to prioritise work accordingly.
What we can offer you
24. Commitment to your development
25. Leaders guided by our Leadership Principles
26. A culture that welcomes you as the unique person you are
27. Inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
28. The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
29. Flexible work environment
30. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
31. Matched pension contributions
32. Private medical cover and life assurance