Assistant Project Manager, Construction Consultancy

Your opportunity

We are recruiting for an Assistant Project Manager to join our project management team in Solihull, West Midlands. You will work as part of our project management discipline across a wide variety of sectors with world leading blue chip clients, world beating sporting teams, large government organisations, ground-breaking R&D organisations, and some of the best academic research institutes. Your primary role will support the PM team to deliver commercial office projects for central government over a five-year programme and involve the following key tasks:

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Assisting with the day-to-day delivery of projects
• Building relationships with clients
• Development of project documentation and reporting
• Attend, chair and record meetings as appropriate
• Produce reports to suit relevant stages of the projects

In addition to the above you will also be responsible for the following key activities:

• Identifying and developing innovative solutions for clients
• Assisting with leading and managing multidisciplinary design teams
• Assisting with conducting feasibility studies, project management reports, meeting minutes and associated actions logs, RFI schedules etc.
• Monitoring and reporting on contractor's progress on site
• Supporting the team in developing new business opportunities
• Supporting the team managing existing client relationships
• Developing skills that will enable you to provide single point of contact taking responsibility for all aspects of the project and liaise with clients

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Construction project management experience is essential
• Experience using Microsoft Office software and Microsoft Project
• Degree in a construction related subject is desirable, but not essential. All degree backgrounds will be considered
• Experience of delivering presentations
• Experience of working on JCT and NEC contracts
• Excellent communication skills to have gravitas with senior professionals
• Experience in report writing

We are looking for a team worker, who is outgoing, proactive, and personable. You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to learn whilst demonstrating commercial awareness and exhibiting the ability to complete projects to agreed timelines.

About us

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They're the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you're hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you're motivated by ingenuity and if you're always aspiring to be the very best.