Position - Full Summary

Responsibility for the support of execution and P&L of assigned Project(s) and Contractual obligations entered into by the company.

Responsibilities

The role will involve assisting the Project Manager to ensure the projects are completed on time and within budget with direction from the Project Manager. The Assistant Project Manager will be responsible for the below mentioned items, but not limited to,

• Produce a weekly and periodic resource plan from information given by the PM’s
• Liaise with the engineers on requirements to deliver on time and on budget.
• Provide cover for the Project Managers when they are not present in maintaining works progress and information updates to both internal and external interfaces and financial information to the project to the management team.
• Attend client meetings with the PM as required to ensure that the status of the project and agreed actions are reported and progressed.
• Make sure proactive risk management is adhered to ensuring periodic review and action with the project team.
• Understand and ensure the clients standards and rules are incorporated in all works undertaken.
• Responsible for supporting the management of project finances.
• Responsible for supporting the management timely and accurate financial applications.
• Working with the Project Manager produce pre-delivery documentation to enable safe delivery of works.
• Work with the team to resolve interface challenges between the various teams.
• Transmit and record documentation internally and externally using the identified media portals. Ensure a record is maintained of all document transmittals.
• Understand and follow the company’s standards and processes applicable to the role.
• Regular update of the various local delivery monitoring schedules and identify where there may be ‘gain’ or ‘lag’.
• Capture and ‘close’ applicable comments on Asite.
• Provide reporting input into the Project Leadership team
• Record Meeting minutes for reviews, Engineering meetings and any other applicable meetings.

Experience, skills, and Qualifications
Essential

• Ideally towards Project Management accreditation (for example APM Association or Prince 2)
• Understanding how decisions affect customers and how their own behavior impacts on the customer experience.
• Knowledge of Network Rail planning rules and standards.
• Experienced portfolio of Railway Engineering Projects (or equivalent) or Demonstrable work experience will be considered.
• Experience of presenting progress at regular reviews with both management and the customer
• Structure own area of responsibility effectively and keep records of all open issues in a very complex working environment
• Strong command of the English language
• Keen problem solver
• Strong documentation skills
• Good communicator (both written and verbal)
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Strong MS Excel skills, Conversant with MS office & Adobe

Desired
• Knowledge of British Standards, experience of Railway standards.
• Knowledge of SAP
• APM Foundation or greater
• Vocational training plus minimum 2 years working experience desirable