Senior Project Management Consultant

This is an incredible time to be part of our fast-paced dynamic environment which is both challenging and rewarding. As a Project Manager youll be backed by a dedicated engineering and project controls team that shares your drive for success.

Our Project Managers work on projects or packages of work for key clients within the Assystem offices or support our clients directly through secondment opportunities to the client organisation. Working closely with programme leadership project teams and stakeholders the role will focus on improving delivery performance increasing productivity and embedding best practice.

The role will require candidates to manage projects effectively using the full project management skillset. The role requires strong skills in developing integrated and resourced project schedules building teams and changing their working methods and habits developing relationships and trust with client stakeholders managing risk and dependencies between interfacing teams developing tools or processes to increase efficiency in day-to-day tasks and reporting on progress to senior managers.

Responsibilities:

• Produce in collaboration with the engineering team detailed task-level project schedules (plans) for the delivery of scope to meet regulatory requirements and engineering decision gates. Plans should be integrated across the team and resourced to achieve the best utilisation of the engineer team.
• Develop tools or processes using a variety of software packages to increase the day-to-day efficiency of project management tasks or to increase the productivity of the engineering teams.
• Manage engineering dependencies between different teams capturing tracking and maintaining those dependencies using traceable clear methods.
• Support engineering change management processes and play a key role in adapting to project changes smoothly.
• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve performance productivity and project outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops stakeholder engagement activities and cross-functional meetings to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Support the adoption of new tools processes governance arrangements systems and ways of working.
• Analyse programme performance data to identify trends risks and improvement opportunities providing clear recommendations.
• Produce presentations and communications to support programme delivery and decision-making reporting the progress made against the plan to senior managers at regular intervals.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and leverage Assystems position with the client to develop areas for new business.

Qualifications :

The role requires excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to facilitate workshops engage diverse audiences and influence decision-making at all levels of the organisation. The successful candidate will be comfortable working across multiple programmes and workstreams within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Degree qualified or equivalent relevant experience.
• Engineering qualifications (e.g. degree) or experience of working or project managing in an engineering environment.
• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent project management qualification desirable.

Capabilities

• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Project or Primavera P6 ideally both.
• Skilled with Microsoft Office applications particularly Excel.
• Ideally familiar with the Microsoft Planner application with Microsoft Teams.
• Experience of setting up teams channels chats and apps in Microsoft Teams for use in engineering teams.
• Strong confident communicator and presenter who is capable of building business relationships and teams quickly and effectively.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to foster strong teamwork and collaboration.
• Well-organized with a systematic and rigorous approach to planning work and priorities.
• Ability to simplify and communicate complex topics effectively.
• Understanding of cross-functional roles such as purchasing commercial and engineering management.

Experience

• Understanding of project management and programme delivery principles.
• Knowledge of project controls reporting planning risk and governance processes.
• Understanding of business change process improvement and organisational adoption activities.
• Awareness of delivery challenges associated with major infrastructure and construction programmes.
• Knowledge of performance management and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong presentation and facilitation capabilities.
• Effective stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Ability to influence discussions and guide teams towards positive outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear and actionable recommendations.

Additional Information :

Join us at Assystem and be part of a global team delivering some of the most exciting and complex engineering projects in the world. This is your chance to shape the UKs energy future while developing your expertise in a unique environment.

Benefits include:

Hybrid Working Opportunity
Flexible working hours
Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
25 days paid annual leave bank holidays option to buy or sell days
Professional fees reimbursed
Employee referral scheme
Competitive Sick Pay Support when you need it
Income Protection & 3x Salary Death-in-Service Cover
Free Digital Gym Access Expert-led fitness classes
24/7 Employee Support Line Mental health financial & legal help

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.

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 peoples ability to dare are the only things that matter.

Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future!

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.

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 peoples ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time