Assistant Project Manager - Defence

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Job description

Salary: Market related
Reference: JO

Role: Assistant Project Manager - Defence
Location: Coulport - at least 3 days per week
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months +
Rate: Negotiable

The candidate must be a single UK national and hold current SC clearance.

My client is looking for an Assistant Project Manager to work site based in Coulport (Scotland) for at least 3 days per week. The candidate will be required to support the Coulport Portfolio which consists of the TSA project, CCEW and the remaining balance of projects around Coulport. The role of the Assistant PM supports the Coulport Portfolio PMs looking inward at delivery and performance for the Coulport work packages and also focuses on the enabling activities supporting the Coulport Recapitalisation Project (set up of the Portfolio Integration team, JPTs, WOR, stakeholder engagement, accommodation, etc).

Responsibilities include:
·Support the PM and the project team to deliver the project objectives.
·Support the PM in the management and administration of the contract.
·Support the PM to manage financial performance of projects to control expenditure against approved project budgets.
·Support the PM in undertaking project assurance and gateway reviews across the portfolio at key stages to evaluate progress, compliance, and probability of delivery to provide confidence to senior management, customers and key stakeholders.
·Accountable for complying with all agreed DIO processes and operating procedures and particularly those which are detailed under key infrastructure process.
·Monitors the performance of the organisation, technical support providers and supply chain, in terms of meeting their contractual obligations.
·Maintains productive relationships with the supply chain throughout the execution of the contract.
·Review and critique duration and cost estimates for the activities (reviewing and updating these at relevant points) and identifies critical dates relevant to the events.
·Monitors financial performance throughout the project and prepares reports for stakeholders in line with organisational requirements. Obtains estimates for the costs of activities, events and overheads.
·Applies metrics to identify cost trends and to update estimates of final costs.
·Reviews proposed changes and determines their high-level impact, requesting further information or clarification where necessary. Assesses all options relating to the proposed changes and estimates their impact

Skills and Experience:
·Available to work on Base 3 days /week with SC clearance held
·Flexibility to support both DPO phase and delivery phases, with building services understanding
·Awareness of managing delivery using NEC contracts including management of change and stakeholder management
·Desirable experience:
·Awareness of requirements for commissioning M&E fit out works
·Understanding of working in collaborative environment
·Flexibility and adaptability to fast changing needs
·Budgeting and cost control
·Commercial awareness of the cost and value of M&E works as well as some construction delivery experience
·NEC awareness
·Minimum 3 years post graduate experience

If you are interested you can apply on online or send your CV to and I will call you to discuss

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