Assistant Project Manager
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £40,609 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Assistant Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing smaller projects which are lower risk and non-complex. You will also provide coordination and support to one or more larger projects, ensuring that projects are delivered to budget, schedule and quality standards, procedures are followed, and that all key project outcomes are met. In addition, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of projects to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints, having a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.
Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure that your behaviour promotes the safety, health and welfare of yourself and your colleagues.
- Actively promote UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints. Day to day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Set project controls. Track delivery within budget.
- Design the project structure appropriate to stage. Select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies.
- Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the Business Case. Coordinate development of the Business Case.
- Schedule / manage resources to deliver the project. May work independently or with a small team.
- Identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.
- Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
- Support or set appropriate project assurance.
- Adhere to the change management processes, ensuring that they are in place to agree upon and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
- Build the project plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Track and report delivery against milestones.
- Seek appropriate support, guidance and coaching from the project community. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.
Qualifications
Essential:
- A degree, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in engineering, science, construction/property, or business change related discipline.
- Programme or Project Management qualification.
- Track record of supporting the delivery of programmes, or projects within programmes.
- Track record of robust project management principles, demonstrated through project delivery or support.
- IT literate, fluent in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent report/minutes writing skills including management of actions through to conclusion.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the business; working across a wide range of employees and external contacts.
- Good planning and organisational skills; ensuring delivery of own workload and reportee are managed and realistic.
- Experience of managing budgets up to a value of £0.5m.
- Ability to work autonomously, with initiative and minimum supervision; managing time across a range of conflicting priorities and requests.
- Experience of working within quality management or systems; understanding of change control and transition mechanisms for delivering programme or project outputs into BAU.
Desirable:
- Line Management experience.
- Experience of purchasing systems and contract management.
- Passion for ensuring good programme management practices and culture.
- Good background knowledge and understanding of fusion.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
