Junior Project Manager - Manchester
Job Description Working within the Project Management Team you will be responsible for supporting the successful delivery of HALEUF FEED, focusing on the resourcing and operational management of the project. Within the role you will liaise with key stakeholders, including but not limited to; Security, Engineering, Commercial, Quality, Delivery Leads and Facilities.
Your team will support the resourcing and onboarding process, ensuring compliance with training, access requirements, aiming for best practice with project support. Dealing with ad hoc requests as required.
In addition, you will support the Project Management Team in Gated Compliance, Project Management Audits, Management of internal procedures, Management of Purchase Orders and Project Costs. Working as required with facilities to support office moves, IT Equipment, Repairs, and IT quotes. Overseeing Project Administration with regards to supplies.
Supporting Project Director, Senior Project Manager, and Project Managers on packages where applicable, including variation responses and upcoming work winning for HALEUF EPCM.
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Responsibilities Responsibilities - Working with the project team and a wide range of senior business stakeholders, your responsibilities will include:
- Managing the onboarding procedure and ensuring adherence for HALEUF FEED
- Supporting planning for resource for current and future phases of the project, ensuring all planned increase is captured by Project Admin in SOP
- Managing the PAAF process, working with Commercial Management to secure margin
- Supporting hiring managers to manage the Netive placements on HALEUF FEED, overseeing timesheet approvals, IR35 assessments (as required) and approving PO increase in collaboration with Finance Management
- Managing CEL stakeholders alongside project team with regards to resourcing and onboarding personnel to the project
- Managing project-based training and overseeing Project Administrator and support as required to ensure all personnel complete mandatory training
- Support project with Stakeholder Management regarding project security. Working closely with the Security Co-Ordinator, List N Manager, and Group Security Manager as required
- Manage the Project SQEP Procedure and ensure compliance as directed by Project Director
- Support Commercial Manager to maintain the project rate deck as part of the PAAF process, ensuring all additional star rates, and rate increases are approved by Client.
- Manage CEMAR communications as required
- Manage project PCard according to the Costain Way
- Establish project procedures as required managing stakeholder input
- Delegate for Project Director as required
- Project management of PO requisitions and approvals, ensuring legitimate costs and stakeholder management
- Project management audits, preparation, and conclusion
- Helping create and embed best practice across the project
- Assisting in the continuous improvement in terms of processes, tools, and procedures
- Embedding lessons learned into future change activities
- Management of O-S / SNI information as required including managing access to the List N room
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Essential - Logical and concise approach to work
- Effective communication and strong stakeholder management skills
- Problem solver who is comfortable working with technology specialists and customer-focused and pragmatic in their approach to delivery
- Strong understanding of Change Management, the impact of change and the change management process
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy workload, balancing competing priorities and deadlines
- Able to work and learn quickly in a fast-paced dynamic environment
- Previous experience of people management on complex/sensitive programmes and have successfully impacted peers/others in order to gain buy-in to enable change to happen
- Able to work in a matrix management environment
- Working knowledge of Export Controls requirements particularly those relating to the UK and EU
- Working knowledge of the Nuclear Fuels Cycle and the Uranium Enrichment process
- Has worked within a nuclear environment and has gained a comprehensive understanding of terminology used across the wider nuclear industry
- Demonstratable experience working within the nuclear sector
- Demonstrable working knowledge of delivering engineering projects through multiple design phases, including mobilization, FEED Planning, FEED Acceleration, FEED Define and early Detailed Design.
Desirable - Strong ability to understand, adopt and effectively implement new systems, processes and ways of working
- Experience of using CDMS (Common data environments and document management systems)
- Familiarisation with Nuclear client site licence conditions
Qualifications Essential - Equivalent of 5 GCSEs, grades A*-C or 9-4 including Science, English, ideally with a Grade B or above in Maths
- Bachelor's degree
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a diploma or degree in Project Management, Project Controls, Data Analytics, Construction, Engineering, or a related field
- APM Risk Management 1 and 2
- APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
About Us Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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