Assistant Project Manager - Environmental and resilience consultant

Newcastle, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

11/8/2024

Are you looking for your next career step? Do you want the opportunity to work on a broad range of projects, utilising and growing your project management skills and experience to help support our clients through the EIA and consenting process? This role will provide you with this opportunity whilst working within a market leading environmental, coastal and fluvial flood risk management and climate resilience consultancy team.

About Our Environment | Resilience | Renewables Advisory Group:

Our Environment | Resilience | Renewables Group has been providing solutions for our clients for over 30 years in the UK.

We offer a comprehensive range of environmental, coastal and fluvial flood risk management, and climate resilience services to support all sizes and types of development. These include high profile infrastructure projects such as Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farms, the Woodsmith Crop Nutrients Mine, and Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station, to carbon management, coastal and fluvial flood risk management, such as the award winning Bacton Sandscaping and Southsea coastal defence scheme projects, climate resilience, locally-driven habitat enhancement and wider biodiversity net gain projects. We combine market-leading technical excellence and innovative solutions, across the range of environmental, flood risk management and climate resilience disciplines, with a clear understanding of clients’ ambitions, needs and pressures.

We specialise in consenting, permitting and licencing support for complex infrastructure developments and operations. We are experts in fluvial, coastal and climate resilience. We have successfully supported our clients in delivering sustainable projects in sectors including energy, industry, marine development and catchment management.

Due to continued growth in a variety of markets including offshore wind, marine development and in the water sector we are looking to grow our team.

Job Role:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, optimistic, conscientious and talented person with excellent communication skills and technical ability in relation to project management in the environmental, flood risk management and climate resilience sector.

In this role you will assist with the delivery of environmental assessment, flood risk management and climate resilience projects by managing time, money and contractual elements of projects and ensuring successful completion.

Your role will involve working with project managers and technical specialists to help ensure that projects are managed appropriately in relation to scope, budget and programme. This will involve working across multi-disciplinary teams within Royal HaskoningDHV and also with subcontractors and clients.

This role might be right for you if you have:

• Experience in project management in the environmental, construction or water industry sectors
• Solid experience in using MS Project or equivalent
• An appreciation of consenting and the Environmental Impact Assessment process
• Robust financial management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organisational, analytical and time management skills
• Great interpersonal skills
• Experience in managing whole or part of EIA projects would be an advantage
• Experience in fluvial and/or coastal flood risk management and climate resilience projects would be an advantage
• Experience in managing contracts would be an advantage
• Project management qualifications would be an advantage
  
  

And if you are:

• Dependable, pro-active and self-motivated
• Flexible and adaptive / innovative
  
  

About Royal HaskoningDHV:

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

What we can offer you:

Ambitious. Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. That’s how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to Enhancing Society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you’re connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us!

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models including part time contracts to ensure a balance of family and working life.

Location: Peterborough, London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester