Assistant Project Manager

1 week ago


Bedford, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join team in the East Region. Within this role, you will be supporting the delivery of a portfolio of highway construction, maintenance and improvement projects on our large variety of roads and structures throughout the region. 

The Assistant Project Manager will support planning management and delivery of allocated highway construction projects within the Region’s 5 year rolling capital programme. Monitoring the performance of project teams, multiple external contactors and consultants. Ensuring adherence to effective governance, quality assurance, health and safety, technical and specialist standards across the supply chain and National Highways ensuring successful delivery of agreed project outcomes and acting in line with mandatory and delegated responsibilities. This role plays a pivotal part in supporting the local economy making sure transport links run safely and smoothly.

Please note this position is a 6 month fixed term contract. 

What you’ll be leading on

Support the delivery of complex highway construction projects whilst managing standard allocated projects within the Region’s rolling 5 year capital programme, across all stages of the project lifecycle, from design to introduction into service Develop, support and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Project Managers, key stakeholders, suppliers, contractors and across National Highways teams, to ensure full mutual understanding for the allocated projects. Report on and review delivery performance, to develop solutions that resolve issues and to prepare project business cases Comply with National Highways Operations Quality Management System (QMS) on all projects in scope to enable delivery within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, corporate technical, specialist health and safety To support the delivery of scheme specific Communication Plans, proactively managing customers’ perception of the schemes in scope, to maintain or improve customer satisfaction scores; respond to customer enquiries and other scheme related matters as and when required. Assist in programme management, reporting and risk management against the capital expenditure budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources

To be Successful

Awareness of relevant legislation, practices and policies for health, safety, environment and wellbeing in construction, including CDM Regs 2015. Recognised qualification in relevant engineering discipline or significant experience in the delivery of their allocated Civil Engineering projects (desirable) Project management experience – related qualifications, . APM, Prince2. (desirable) Awareness of Understanding contract management under the NEC3 and NEC4 forms of contract Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills Ability to execute tasks independently, yet work collaboratively within a team

A bit about us

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future. 


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