Assistant Project Manager Nottingham, England
Job description
We’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager to join our Natural Resources team for our Severn Trent contract. Based from our Sheffield office but working from home and site, you can enjoy knowing that you not only help manage projects that are beneficial for our employees but for the community.
Location: based in or around the East Midlands area and will have the opportunity to travel across multiple sites/projects in the Region
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part-time hours may be available if desired, just let us know
Responsibilities
As an Assistant Project Manager, you’ll be working on our Severn Trent water Frameworks within our Water sector, delivering schemes of varying sizes, predominately to the Water Industry, across Wastewater Treatment delivering both Design and Build. Reporting to the Project Manager, you will assist them in the management and control of the project to ensure the safe completion in accordance with programme and specification and budget.
Your day to day will include:
- Contributing to the value engineering and buildability of the project
- Determination to gain agreement of programmes and methods of construction with Planners and other appropriate production personnel
- Marshalling of resources for the overall control and execution of the works including the selection of sub-contractors to carry out the works
- Ensuring that key dates, resource requirements, production rates, overhead targets etc., are established, monitored and controlled
- Managing multiple or larger packages of work
What are we looking for?
This role of Assistant Project Manager is great for you if you:
- HNC or higher in Civil Engineering
- Proven experience within a similar role or Site Management
- SMSTS and CSCS
We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at [email protected] to discuss and arrange these.
We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- A fantastic matched pension scheme
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier’s Green Car Scheme
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.
Who is Kier?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.
We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.
Closing Date: 17 September 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
