Description
We're seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join our Environmental Project Management team in Birmingham. In this role, you'll support the delivery of multi-disciplinary environmental projects, working closely with Project Managers and Technical Leads to ensure projects are safe, on track, and within budget.
You'll gain hands-on experience across the full project lifecycle, helping to troubleshoot challenges and build the skills and confidence to progress into an Environmental Project Manager role.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting project proposal development, defining scope, programme, resources, and budget
- Assisting with project management documentation, including plans, cost forecasts, schedules, risk registers, and stakeholder logs
- Coordinating project progress, tracking delivery against milestones
- Ensuring health and safety requirements for site visits are in place
- Organising meetings, capturing key outcomes, and following up on actions
- Managing project information within Common Data Environments like SharePoint and ProjectWise
- Collaborating with technical specialists and suppliers
- Supporting supplier contract administration
Requirements:
- Experience supporting project or workstream delivery on Infrastructure or Environmental projects
- Understanding of how to keep activities aligned to time, cost, and quality expectations
- Comfortable working with project documentation
- High attention to detail, with the ability to work accurately with data
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload across multiple tasks or projects
- Confident using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Experience working collaboratively with stakeholders
- Clear and professional communication skills