Assistant Project Manager

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

Our Opportunity

We are currently looking for an Assistant Project Manager to join the Bid & Project Management function. We are looking for someone who will be an accountable professional leading the successful delivery of bids and projects to all our customers. This would suit someone looking for their first full role after a Grad scheme or someone looking to make their first move after starting their career.

The role holder will be responsible for collaborating with the design team and the design authority alongside the Project Delivery Manager. This role requires the application of professional project control, ensuring strict adherence to change control, project planning, materials management, commercial insight, and stakeholder engagement, all under the guidance of the Project Management team. You will also be working on different contract types, such as Firm Fixed Price and NEC.

Additionally, this role will require a positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.

The role is based in our Stratford office, and you will follow our SMART Working policy, which requires being in the office at least twice a week.

Key Responsibilities

As an Assistant Project Manager your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Undertake project-engineering activities in support of the Project Management Team to ensure the successful delivery of the project
• Take responsibility for the delivery performance of part of a project, ensuring that it is successfully managed to time, cost and quality
• Providing direction and challenge to project team members
• Ensure that the project is being delivered in accordance with governance processes
• Effective management of change impacting on the project, including variations and claims
• Internal organisation skills, action management, risk mitigation management and developing communication processes for internal and customer
• Supporting the Project Manager in delivering the objectives of the project, including delivering to budget and controlling the Estimate at Completion (EAC)
• Where necessary supporting the Project Management Office with reporting and project controls

Technical Skills

• Project delivery
• Project planning and scheduling
• Estimating and budgeting
• Schedule and resource management
• Risk and opportunity management
• Change control
• Project governance including reporting
• Bid/Project governance
• Schedule Construct and Resource Profiling
• Quality management
• Knowledge of the Asite management tool would be beneficial but training will be provided

Human Skills

• Passionate and Driven
• Strong communication skills
• Strong self-organisation
• Stakeholder management and influence
• Excellent technical writing skills
• Good presentation skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills

Experience

• Prior project management skills and experience of project delivery
• Evidence of providing effective team leadership and people management
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to deal with customers,, partners, and suppliers
• The ability to provide succinct and salient project performance information to senior managers
• Commercial and Financial acumen
• Analytical skills aligned with the need to carry out detailed investigation of cost variance(s)

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at https://www.hitachirail.com/careers.

At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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