Assistant Project Manager

About the job. At National Highways, we have an excellent opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join our Operations Directorate in Yorkshire North East. The role will involve supporting the management and delivery of a portfolio of projects within the Region and overseeing the performance of project teams, multiple external contractors, and consultants. You will also be ensuring adherence to effective governance, quality assurance, health and safety, technical and specialist standards across the supply chain and National Highways.

This role will be based across the Yorkshire North East in either our Wakefield or Darlington office. Support the delivery of complex projects whilst managing standard allocated projects within the Region, across all stages of the project lifecycle, from design to introduction into service. Report on and review delivery performance, develop solutions that resolve issues, and to prepare project business cases.

Develop, support and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Project Managers, key stakeholders, suppliers, contractors and across National Highways teams, to ensure full mutual understanding for the allocated projects. Comply with National Highways Operations Quality Management System (QMS) on all projects in scope to enable delivery within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, corporate technical, specialist health and safety.

Assist in programme management, reporting and risk management against the budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources. Ensuring the health and safety needs of all parties involved in the projects are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity.

About you. Recognised qualification in a relevant engineering discipline or significant experience in the delivery of their allocated Civil Engineering projects Understanding of project management practices and controls Reviewing project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners Experience in managing relationships with multiple stakeholders Understanding contract management under the NEC contracts

About us . Here at National Highways, we manage and improve Englands motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership. Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. About Us Why you should join us At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. Were proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it then youll be a great fit for our organisation. A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and were open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible. Our benefits package Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10% Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays) Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working Life assurance of 4 times annual salary Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available…