Associate Project Manager
Essex/Kent or London
Permanent
Office/Home Hybrid Working
Do you want to have a leading role on a major infrastructure project? Can you manage delivery partners and consultancies performance? Are you an experienced Highways Project Manager ? Then,this is the place to apply your knowledge and curiosity to enable a better tomorrow.
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To provide project management leadership for the successful planning, development and delivery of a major roads programme, we are looking for an Associate Project Manager to join us. Working on a major joint venture, you’ll ensures safe, efficient, high-quality delivery in line with programme objectives, governance, technical standards, and commercial requirements. The role manages day-to-day performance of delivery partners, technical specialists, and internal teams, ensuring risks, interfaces, constraints and progress are effectively controlled to achieve project outcomes.
Your key responsibilities will be:
Manage day-to-day management, coordination and delivery of assigned project scope within a major Roads project, ensuring alignment with programme baselines, performance objectives and strategy.
Build and maintain effective working relationships with the delivery partner, internal teams, project governance forums and external stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of project objectives—including safety, programme, carbon reduction and social value commitments — and to support informed decision-making on progress, risks and issues.
Ensure compliance with National Highways’ Portfolio, Programme & Project Management System and project governance processes
Manage delivery partner and consultancy performance by clearly defining requirements, setting expectations for safety, time, cost and quality, and taking timely action to resolve emerging issues.
Oversee commercial and contractual performance management to secure value for money and control costs
Identify, assess and manage project risks, issues, interfaces and dependencies, implementing effective mitigation and escalation where required.
Ensure all project activities are delivered safely, in accordance with safety leadership expectations, CDM regulations, and environmental commitments.
Conduct Procurement Compliance and Assurance activities, reviewing tender documentation from Delivery Partners and supporting supply chain tender processes to demonstrate value for money. Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
On top of that, you’ll have:
An engineering degree or Project management degree
Possess Chartered status or APM PMQ (or equivalent)
Previous experience leading teams to manage complex, medium/high risk projects or high-profile projects to completion.
Experience managing business or value management cases for new projects through company defined governance, review and approval gates.
Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans with delivery partners.
Clear evidence of commercial skills with demonstrated ability to negotiate and manage contracts to deliver outcomes and ensure value for money
Experience promoting innovation, sustainability, and best practice in major programme delivery
Demonstrated strategic leadership, planning, organisational and decision-making ability
Communication and the ability to build support with commercial and financial acumen
