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Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it’s employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Project Manager to join our defence portfolio.
A bit about the team
Our portfolio of defence projects offers an extensive range of programme support capabilities to defence agencies, including the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), and several other worldwide defence sector service suppliers. Mott MacDonald are looking to hire project controls professionals in both the junior and mid-level band.
What you will contribute to the team;
- Assists in establishing and delivering project specific objectives
- Provide key support to the senior leaders in the delivery of commission obligations and internal project performance
- Contribute to open communications across the project delivery and client teams
- Establish effective communications across the project delivery, client and stakeholder teams
- Implement problem solving and decision making
- Adopt programme and business management systems across project teams
- Control the internal and external commercial aspects of project across a range of contractual arrangements
- Mentor less experience colleagues in the skills of project management
- Contribute to securing opportunities and repeat business through the high quality of service delivery
Potential travel required in advert either 2/3 days a month or once a week depending on project
Candidate specification
Required for the position of Assistant Project Manager;
- Educated to degree level
- Working towards a relevant professional qualification with APM, CIOB, RIBA or RICS
- Demonstrate some project management and delivery experience;
- Developing knowledge and application of project management methodologies;
- Experience in successfully supporting the delivery of projects under supervision but with some responsibility;
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a larger team;
- Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment;
- Relationship building skills –ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders;
- Effective communication with client’s project team and business manager
- Good analytical thinking and research skills;
- Working towards a relevant professional qualification with APM, CIOB, RIBA or RICS
Preferred, but not required
- Project delivery experience within the defence sector or similar technical sectors;
- Experience in prioritising own workload and co-ordinating other team members;
- Working knowledge of project management software
- Essential soft skills include self-motivation; taking initiative, adaptability and flexibility; effective listening, collaboration; insightfulness; and
- Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.
If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.
About the business unit
The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott MacDonald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and, Education, Health and Care.
The Unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting and Education, Health and Care Management.
