An Assistant Project Manager will be a motivated and detail oriented professional who supports matrix project teams in achieving project timescales and aligning progress. Assistant Project Managers will work closely with Project Managers to coordinate delivery partners, monitor budgets, and help ensure that cost, quality, and safety standards are met. The role involves preparing reports, maintaining project documentation, facilitating communication across stakeholders, and taking responsibility for specific workstreams or tasks. This position provides the opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain experience in commercial and operational aspects of project delivery. As an Assistant Project Manager at AWE, you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of diverse, mission‑critical programmes. Depending on the role, your responsibilities may include:
Responsibilities
- Undertake tasks for Governance (compliance and reporting).
- Task management of project resources (people, money).
- Support the planning of the task/project.
- Support and initiate change against the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
- Support, initiate and perform risk and opportunity identification and subsequent actions.
- Take responsibility for specific workstreams or tasks.
- Build and maintain effective internal and external working relationships.
- Read, analyse and interpret charts, spreadsheets, schedules and (in some business areas) technical drawings.
- Clear and concise communication approach, both oral and written, at multiple levels.
- Foster good team morale and spirit and motivate others.
- Effective multi-task working, identify and manage priorities and work to challenging timescales.
- Possess good listening skills enabling requests to be assimilated and converted into action plans.
- Able to hold people to account when they under deliver or let standards slip.
Qualifications
- Project Management qualification/membership (APM, PMP, PRINCE2) or equivalent experience.
- Must be able to use Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Benefits
- Package: Salary from £39,500 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience).
- 9‑day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave – 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave – 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
- Hybrid working is available for these roles on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically, 2-3 days onsite per week.
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