Assistant Project Manager

Terra Quest Role:
Assistant Project Manager

Location:

Birmingham and Belfast in line with our Agile Working Policy. You will need to be able to work from our Birmingham or Belfast office 2 days per week/office to be attended as often as business needs require. Salary:
Competitive Who we are...

Terra Quest Solutions Ltd is an award-winning and market-leading specialist provider of planning, land, property, and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation that is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team delivers bespoke, flexible, and efficient services through a process-orientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer, committed to supporting the well-being and development of all our people. With competitive salaries, enhanced Family Friendly policies; a fabulous suite of benefits (including:
Pension;
Life Assurance;
Employee Assistance Programme; option to buy additional annual leave in addition to 25 days plus Bank Holidays); true flexibility with our Agile Working approach, and superb training and development opportunities, we really care about our team!

Due to a period of sustained growth, we are looking to recruit an Assistant Project Manager to join our Land Referencing Team within the Professional Services department.

The Assistant Project Manager will be a member of the Land Referencing team, with responsibility for the management and execution of project tasks by the Project Teams as directed by the Project Manager, and ensuring they are completed in accordance with project plans and customer expectations.

The Assistant Project Manager will have direct responsibility for ensuring all allocated project tasks are completed to time, quality and budget, and in compliance of Terra Quest’s standards and systems.

The position will be as a member of a dedicated team, delivering specialist land and property services projects to high profile clients undertaking major business process, infrastructure and regeneration development projects. Ideally, you will have experience of land referencing, compulsory purchase process, and/or the wider industry. You may have experience of Compulsory Purchase Orders, Development Consent Orders, Hybrid Bills or other property related experience.

(List minimum of 8 key responsibilities, example below)

• To ensure that all project activities are performed to the highest levels of quality & compliance in line with defined standards, procedures and Terra Quest’s Business Management System, and meet customer quality expectations.
• Update project documentation on behalf of the Project Manager, to include Project database (with all associated logs and schedules), Project Plan and Production Logs.
• To monitor and record technical quality of project deliverables and report issues to Project Manager.
• To monitor project risks and report issues to Project Manager.
• To monitor and record progress against plan and report to Project Manager.
• To create and maintain Work Instructions, allocate tasks to members of the project team(s) and monitor their progress, performance and quality.
• To allocate tasks with performance criteria to team members, to be used as Measurable Personal Objectives for performance management purposes.
• To direct and motivate the project team ensuring all members are suitably trained to perform allocated tasks.
• Line Manage junior team members, under the guidance of the Project Manager.
• Interact with clients and stakeholders at the appropriate levels.
• Day to day liaison with team members, managers, clients and interested parties.
• Actively participate in activities supporting the quality assurance process, liaising directly with the Technical Consultant and Project Manager.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant to the business.
• The ability to organise own workload and be able to work autonomously.
• The ability…