Assistant Project Manager Enabling and Earthworks

We are currently looking for an Assistant Project Manager to join the team on a nuclear new build project.
The role can be based in London or Suffolk. It will run to the end of December but likely to be long term.

The Assistant Project Manager role will work with the Senior Project Manager and Project Manager in developing the strategy for delivering the Civil Works to cost, schedule and quality within the agreed constraints. The works will include setting and implementing strategies for Design Management, Management of the Early Contractor Involvement Contract, Procurement & Commercial Management.
The project is delivered through an organisation that comprises multi-disciplinary teams. The Assistant Project Manager is likely to work within such a team and will have a diverse role within it supporting delivery of work during all project phases within tasks areas that might include:
1. Nuclear Construction Excellence support
2. Health and Safety culture reporting
3. Quality reporting
4. Schedule review and progress reporting
5. Financial assessment and budget reporting
6. Contract administration support and reporting
7. Risk and Opportunity management synopsis and reporting
8. Deliverable development of contract scope
9. Stakeholder liaison and influencing
10. Joint Management Team Membership

The main responsibilities will include:
- Coordination and recording meetings with key project stakeholders (internal & external).
- Supporting, coordination and attending Multi-Disciplinary Team and Joint Management Team meetings.
- Organisation and coordination of Technical Engineering, Cost, Contractor and Scheduling meetings on behalf of the Programme Manager.
- Actively encouraging and promoting continual development of challenging collaborative working behaviours to maintain efficient and effective delivery relationships between Design, Procurement, Pre-construction Planning and Construction teams.
- Production of all Project documentation required to successfully deliver the Project scope.
- Developing and implementing management systems, as required, supporting delivery and quality as specified by the Project Controls Department.
- Ensuring that wider NNB arrangements are implemented, as appropriate, within the Programme of works and advising the management team of any necessary actions to ensure this.
- Facilitate internal communications within the Project Delivery Team and the wider SZC Project teams.
- Assist the Project Manager delivering the List of Deliverables (LOD).
- Assist the Project Manager in applying the principles of Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Assist in upholding the principles of Continuous Improvement.
- Interfacing with other teams within Nuclear New Build (NNB), on specific tasks as required, under the direction of the Programme Manager for the team.

The Civil Works Programme is responsible for delivering:
- Enabling and Earthworks: sea defences, access facilities, civil engineering work to support site establishment, diaphragm walling around the nuclear plant footprint, dewatering, excavation and earthworks.
- Tunnelling and Marine: beach landing facility, jetty, shafts and intake and outfall tunnels for the nuclear plant cooling systems.
- Main civil engineering: technical galleries, cooling system pipework, foundation base slab and over 70 large buildings for the nuclear plant.
To successfully deliver the Programme requires excellent coordination and integration with the Site Establishment, Site Operations, and Mechanical / Electrical / Heating (MEH) Alliance.
The execution strategy involves:
- Maximising replication of HPC design to limit the extent of First of a Kind design to site-specific elements.
- Introduction and establishment of a programme management structure.
- Using learning from the HPC project to optimise and simplify working practices and processes to maximise site productivity.
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- Lead/support and assist on tasks required to support the Project Manager’s delivery of the project and contract scope for SZC.
- Liaise and interface with the other key teams within NNB on specific tasks which are required to support the principle task of delivery of the project and contract scope for SZC.
- Develop, implement and provide ongoing support towards the use of management systems which will support delivery and quality of the outputs from the Project Controls Department, including planning and document control processes.
- Participate in providing support to the Team with regard to compliance with approved NNB procedures.
- Participate in developing the relationships with key statutory stakeholders for the SZC project
- Support the development of Joint Management Team and collaborative working to reinforce working behaviours against agreed principles and objectives.

They can offer some hybrid working arrangements.
Closing date 16th May.