Assistant Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager

Permanent role

£42,000 - £55,000 DOE

Hybrid working: 3 days office, 2 days home

Location: Birchwood, Warrington OR Milton Park, Abingdon

As Assistant Project Manager in the Transport Container team you will deploy your experience and techniques across the whole life-cycle of engineering consultancy projects. These will include initial concept design through optioneering, detailed design, substantiation of designs including physical testing, support to manufacturing of the radioactive waste packages across the UK and supporting operational fleets.

You will be an active team member in a supportive work environment, contributing to the achievement of real business objectives and assigned to live projects - some of which are the largest and most exciting projects of these types taking place within the nuclear industry.

The Assistant Project Manager will be involved in the following activities:

• Prepare the PM Plan (in conjunction with others for larger projects) and prepare a project delivery and procurement strategy.
• Establishes base line budget and schedule, sets up work breakdown structure (WBS) and establish cost control methodology.
• Execute the procurement exercise and review for supplier selection.
• Assess tenderer costs, performance indicators and let subcontracts.
• Maintain record of project costs and commitments, compare with plan, and take corrective action where required.
• Hold regular progress meetings with the customer and internal reporting with the business line manager.
• Track progress and resource usage on schedule, mitigate any deviations present or foreseen.
• Produce periodic progress reports for customer and internal, including financial reports.
• Identify and assess risks to the project and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Provide input for tender responses including estimating, scheduling, and risk collation.

Duties and Requirements

To be considered for the Assistant Project Manager role you should have the following:

• 3-5+ years' experience in Project Management/Engineering, ideally in an engineering, nuclear, defence or other highly regulated environment.
• Excellent Excel skills for project reporting.
• Financial Management experience.
• Project cost experience including hands on monitoring and reforecasting.
• Engineering, Science or Project Management qualification.
• Fantastic attention to detail.

Why Nuvia

Employee Staff Benefits:

• 8.5% Pension Contribution & Life Assurance
• Private Medical Scheme*
• Employee Share Scheme
• 18 Weeks Full Maternity Pay* (+21w SMP)
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service, 31 days after 10 years’ service)
• Option to buy, sell and carry over up to 5 days annual leave per year
• In partnership with trade unions
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Personal Development & Further Education Support
• Long Service & Recognition Awards
• Fantastic Employee Discounts
• Free Employee Assistance Programme

*After 1 year of service.

Nuvia - a subsidiary of VINCI construction - is an international company that operates across highly regulated sectors including Civil Nuclear and has a strong presence and history of delivery at nuclear sites in the UK and internationally.

Nuvia is a performance-driven company that is committed to the development of its people within a culture of safety, innovation, and excellence.