(GBR-London) Assistant Project Manager

**Company Description**

**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**

Are you an Assistant Project Manager looking to work on building projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last?

If so, we are looking for an experienced Assistant Project Manager to join our team in London to work on a variety of interesting projects. You will be joining a team of like-minded experts that have a passion for innovation and delivery.

**About Us:**

AECOM plays a critical role in the conceptualisation and creation of amazing spaces, delivering projects and buildings that define skylines and communities. AECOM Buildings & Places is made up of dedicated teams delivering projects in Commercial, Residential, Hospitality, Sports Venues, Work Places, Education, Government and Healthcare.

We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and overseas projects. Some of our flagship work in recent years include;

22 Bishopsgate, Knightsbridge Estates, Palace of Westminster, Southbank Place, Arctic Science centers, The Bank of England, BBC Broadcasting house, The Titanic building in Belfast and the St Pancras Chambers Hotel in London to name but a few.

**About Our Team:**

We are an industry leader in project management design management and programme management services for large capital programs and oversee activities ranging the full life cycle of a project. The project management team serves both private and public clients in a wide range of sectors. We believe that project management is first and foremost about providing our clients with certainty of outcomes. We look beyond the traditional time, cost, quality view of project delivery and look to understand what is truly important to our clients and how we can better service them.

Our team has an increased demand for individuals with front end design experience and contract administration experience. We are looking for confident and ambitious individuals that can demonstrate a balanced, robust and reasonable approach to design, procurement and delivery.

**Job Responsibilities:**

As an Assistant Project Manager your duties will include but will not be limited to the following;

+ Support in the delivery of Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for their successful delivery.

+ Ensure commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on time

+ Strong relationships are developed with clients and members of the cross-functional team

+ To ‘win’ clients through strong business development skills

+ Be the interface with AECOM clients (New and Existing)

**Specific Skills Required:**

+ Excellent communication, presentation and organisational skills

+ Highly motivated with good knowledge of Tertiary Education projects

+ Production of formal reports and documents which clearly set out complex issues

+ Experience of successfully delivering construction projects

+ Experience in a number of project management roles

+ Good Understanding of CDM regulations

+ Good design management experience.

+ Good contractor management experience

+ Experience of working with stakeholders/clients

+ Experience of working as part of complex, multi-disciplinary/multi-agency Project Teams

+ Experience of Risk and Stakeholder Management techniques

+ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

+ Highly motivated, able to work independently, diligent and with an eye for detail.

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications**

Professional Qualified – ideally Project Management/ Construction/Engineering/Quantity Surveying Degree

**Additional Information**

**Your Benefits Will Include:**

Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join AECOM, as well as receiving a competitive salary, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements.

Core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, company pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and one paid annual professional institution membership fee. You can also choose from a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

You’ll also be able to give back to communities with up to two paid CSR days each year. Through our charity, The AECOM Foundation, you can volunteer to support children in developing countries. And if you’re a member of the Reserve Forces you’ll receive an additional 15 days paid leave for training commitments.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID:** J10082767

**Business Line:** B&P - Buildings & Places

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India

**Career Area:** Program & Project Management

**Work Location Model:** Hybrid