Assistant Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager – Utilities

Hatfield (AL10)
Competitive + excellent benefits
Permanent

Mace is an international consultancy and construction company, offering highly integrated services across the full property life cycle. Our experts in programme and project management, construction delivery, cost consultancy, and facilities management thrive within our collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, constantly striving to find better solutions to complex infrastructure and property challenges.

Our customers are at the core of what we do, and we continue to grow and expand to better serve their property needs across sectors and geographies. Our talented and professional people work from within our customers’ organisations, constantly asking challenging questions and riving value at every turn. We believe it is our relentless passion for finding a better way that helps us to deliver the best projects safely and efficiently, while defining industry best practice.

Mace is an equal opportunities employer

Mace are engaged on a number of programmes including; pesticide, new storage, production maintenance, mains, trunk main and HS2.

The Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of Projects within the designated work stream. Project Managers may be appointed to deliver cross work stream projects and may be moved between work streams in accordance with the programme requirements. To undertake this challenge the Project Manager will have management responsibility for themselves and a number of Assistant Project Managers along with access to commercial, planning and technical engineering resource including process, electrical, and software disciplines.

Working as an integral part of the overall delivery team with the client, the individual will have leadership and management skills.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
– Manage projects in accordance with the current published Project Management System, current Client procedures, and statutory standards and regulations, ensuring that all safety and quality requirements are satisfied.
– Be the primary point of contact for the Client with respect to specific project matters and ensure that the client remains fully informed of project status at all times.
– Produce forecasts of resource requirements to satisfy the needs of the project programme, the quality objectives and the requirements of the client.
– In conjunction with the project team define and agree the responsibilities of personnel performing activities affecting the execution of project works.
– Record, evaluate and process any variations to the scope of work of the project.
– Ensure compliance with the requirements of the Project Environmental, Health & Safety Plan, client procedures and statutory legislation and undertake regular reviews, inspections and audits.
– Promote communications between those under the control of the Project Manager, and other groups within the organisation in order to ensure the project is executed in an efficient and effective manner.
– Understand the project deliverables and ensure that sufficient and suitable progress reports are produced in a timely manner.
– Produce monthly cost reports accounting for committed spend and budget forecasts considering both basic contract costs and variations to allow the client to make sufficient funding available to support the programme progress.
– Ensure compliance with rules/regulations, permit systems and safety requirements being site specific, and to promote those disciplines throughout the Project Team.
– Implement and manage a project administration system to control formal documentation site records, and there timely production.
– Manage contractors to ensure that execution of projects is undertaken to the full expectations of both Mace and the client.
– Promote “best practice” through process improvement and continuous development of processes, procedures and documented working practices.
– Undertake third party liaisons as required to support and maintain the project programme.
– Manage value engineering and value management processes.
– Carry out post project appraisals.
– Produce, where necessary, otherwise review H&S documentation to allow works to be undertaken.
– Undertake any other reasonable instruction or specific responsibility as instructed by line management.
– Comply with safe working practices.
– Undertake safety and quality audits as instructed by the Line Manager
– Work within levels of financial authority for capital projects £10k, Mace £0.
– Any other duties required by the Senior Project Manager or portfolio lead.

Line Management Duties:
– Appraisal and development of your team (if appropriate) of project managers, assistant project managers and trainee PM’s.
– Offering guidance and support and assisting in resolving concerns with your team’s projects.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:
Essential
– Understanding of project management systems
– Understanding of NEC contracts
– Knowledge of hydraulic systems
– Excellent IT skills
– Working knowledge of the CDM regulations
– Knowledge of construction working practices

Desired
– Understanding of common water industry processes

Qualifications:

Essential
– Achieved the APMP Project Manager qualification or be working towards it
– Understanding of project management systems
– Understanding of NEC contract
– Knowledge of hydraulic systems
– Ability to manage and influence
– Ability to interface with project stakeholders
– Ability to lead a team
– Excellent IT skills•

Competencies / Behaviours:

Essential
– Able to operate effectively within a co-located environment embedded within the client’s delivery team.
– Ability to manage and influence
– Ability to interface with project stakeholders
– Ability to lead a team
– Maintain a calm professional manner at all times
– Lead by example
– Believe in the AW mission statements and initiatives
– Take effective and timely decisions as well as identifying, assessing, evaluating and solving problems.
– Manage knowledge within the team
– Behave professionally and ethically, to a consistent level of performance and to create a relationship that nurtures trust.
– Flexible approach to working hours and travel.

Experience:

Essential
– Successful proven track record of project management ideally within the water industry or utilities sector.
– Experience in Contract Administration of multiple Engineering construction projects.

Desired
– Have worked in a regulated industry would be advantageous.
– Having held a previous line management position.
– Previously worked in a co-located clients office