Job Description

Your role

Project Management

• Lead the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets, tracking progress and performance against established milestones and objectives.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues, implementing effective risk management strategies to minimize disruptions and delays.
• Coordinate project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure alignment of goals, priorities, and deliverables.

Project Performance

• Project finance – be accountable for the financial and commercial management of your projects, including monthly forecasting, invoicing and monitoring of sub-consultant spend.
• Delivery excellence – be accountable for delivery excellence, ensuring that the our delivery meetings our internal governance standards.
• Client feedback – support our ongoing client relationships be encouraging client feedback, and where necessary ensuring positive client interaction, and lessons learned.
• Digital capability and innovation – embrace and support the role out of market leading innovations and digital platforms.

Communication and Collaboration

• Mentoring – provide a mentoring or pastoral role for junior colleagues, supporting the local leadership team with QA and professional advice. Demonstrate leadership capabilities.
• Facilitate clear and effective communication among project stakeholders, fostering collaboration, transparency, and accountability within internal and external teams.
• Act as a liaison between internal teams, external partners, and clients, ensuring that all parties are informed and engaged throughout the project lifecycle.
• Cultivate positive working relationships with clients, community stakeholders, and other key stakeholders, promoting a culture of trust, respect, and collaboration.

Support to PM Lead with business development

• Assist the Lead in identifying new business opportunities and expanding the consultancy's portfolio of work.
• Contribute to the development of proposals, and presentations for prospective clients, showcasing the consultancy's expertise and value proposition.
• Provide input and support in strategic planning, resource allocation, and business development initiatives to drive growth of the team into 2024/25.
• Ambassador – understand your role as an ambassador for our brand in all communications (internal and external).

About you

• Good experience in project management, with a focus on development projects involving buildings, property and places.
• Aspirations to develop existing project management qualifications and progress to Chartered Project Manager status with either APM or RICS.
• Proven track record of successfully managing complex client organisations, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex ideas and information to diverse audiences.
• Strong leadership abilities, with experience leading multidisciplinary teams and driving results in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Strategic thinker with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset, capable of identifying opportunities and implementing innovative solutions to achieve project goals.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.