Assistant Project Manager
Assistant Project Manager
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Overview
Role: Assistant Project Manager
Location: Toronto Canada Hybrid
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Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world
Ricardo plc is a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leadingedge and innovative crosssector sustainable products and solutions. Every day we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to deliver and manage large/complex projects across a portfolio for key clients in Canada and the US. The successful candidatewill need to Ensure that projects are delivered to time cost and quality and driving the programme of work to make sure the client needs are met. You will also need to identify areas for improvement and ensure Ricardos process and governance is adhered to.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of large value projects across a portfolio implementing and promoting Project Management principles such as change control risk financial and documentation management.
- Plan and manage the implementation of projects within the agreed requirements budget timelinesand customer satisfaction.
- Manage the project team members and suppliers. Ensure staff involvement optimal and safe working conditions.
- Ensure delivery of contracted outputs to the required quality evaluate project and supplier performance identifying lessons for future improvement.
- Understand the customers goals and how Ricardo can contribute to achieve them both within and in addition to current project activity.
- Manage project in accordance with Ricardos processes and procedure and in line with Ricardos governance.
- Drive project management practise within Ricardo delivering developing and using best practices tools and techniques for effective and consistent ways of working.
Key Competencies and Experience
- Experience of working in a business/ client services environment.
- Flexible and resultsoriented approach to meet varying and competing client and business demands.
- Strong organisational skills to be able to work on multiple tasks and to tight deadlines.
- A proactive approach to problem solving with strong communication and diplomacy skills to negotiate and influence internal and external clients.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent English oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate with many audiences.
- Proficient in the use of Word Excel Project and Power point.
- Be able to learn and proficiently operate Ricardo Rails project management software tools.
- Project Management qualifications.
- Versatile and adaptable able to operate under pressure to meet deadlines and for project success.
Progression criteria Project Manager
- Implementing and promoting Project Management principles such as resource planning.
- Project cost analysis.
- Support the growth of a project organisation recruit necessary staff and resources and makes agreements for this purpose with internal and external suppliers if required.
- Monitor project progress making adjustments and negotiating changes with the customer.
- To be the primary customer interface for the project establishing strong and effective customer relationships. Ensure a high level of customer service is maintained throughout the project teams.
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion creed gender identity. sexual orientation pregnancy or pregnancyrelated condition marital or parental status (IL only) height weight national origin citizenship status age domestic violence victim status arrest record or conviction record (MI only) genetic information military or veteran status or disability or any other classification protected by applicable federal state or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viaif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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