Main characteristics
- Location
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Company
- Assystem, Switch On
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- Engineering
Job summary
Company DescriptionAssystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.
Every day, our 6,500 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy. We are a collective committed to making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise, and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.
About our Graduate Programme:
As a graduate at Assystem, from Day 1 you will be welcomed to the Assystem family, we will focus on getting you up to speed on what we do, our values, and what you can look forward to on our 2-year experience.
You will have the opportunity to work with customers on live projects, bring value from the start and learn new skills.
As part of the programme, you will have access to Mentors, benefit from peer-to-peer learning through our Graduate Forums, identify and develop skills through our upskilling framework, and the opportunity to work across different industries and customers.
Job Description
The graduate project manager has a key function within Assystem and the role will be the steppingstone to gaining a broader experience in design and construction within some of the most challenging projects on the NDA estate.
Whether embarking on a Project Management, or Project Controls career, it is vital to understand all disciplines of the profession. Working within the diverse environment of SMPrO will widen both knowledge and practical experience whilst adding real time value.
The graduate PM will be responsible for implementing fundamental work processes used in Design and Construction, supporting all three project dimensions of time, cost and quality through the following:
* Development of estimates and budgets
* Supporting the development of plans and schedules
* Tracking performance against budgets and schedules; correlating performance information against work processes
* Analysing variances of both direct hire and contract hire work activities
* Identifying trends where deviations are about to occur unless action is taken
* Preparing content for project and construction status reports
* Identifying potential scope changes.
* Controlling the scope of the project controlling change.
* Ensuring that the projects products/deliverables fulfil their requirements
* Managing risks.
Working in an integrated project team, they will also be responsible for providing management and planning services to projects and proposals, as well as supporting wider improvement initiatives and programmes within the SMPrO portfolio. This will entail:
* Promote planning best practice internally and externally.
* Develop, with support, end to end programmes from appointment to commissioning
* Understand routes to project success, develop programmes around key milestones.
* Identifying project risk, communicating key information to relevant stakeholders.
* Contribute to problem solving and innovative thinking to both tender programmes and live projects.
* Produce detailed programmes and options, with support, accurately and efficiently required.
* Develop relationships with internal teams, consultants, clients, and the wider supply chain.
Qualifications
A Bachelors/Masters degree in Project Management / Quantity Surveying is preferred, although other degrees will be considered if the applicant has shown a keen interest in Project Management or Project Controls and pursued this through further training, education or work experience
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