Associate Project Manager - Buildings in London

We invite you to bring your project management expertise into play as you contribute to our sustainable construction projects both in the UK and overseas. To succeed in this role, you must have excellent communication skills and experience of the design and construction process. If you crave a challenging role but need flexibility and work-life balance, our new Project Manager position may be ideal for you.

We are very interested in talking to people who are looking for a new challenge or may be returning from a career break or are thinking about moving from engineering into project management.

As our new Project Manager, you will be part of our Buildings Division in London, UK, reporting into the project management lead in the office. We work across a variety of projects and sectors from large commercial and residential developments, boutique hotels and high-end retail stores to higher education and science buildings locally, nationally and internationally. The London office team culture is one of inclusion, collaboration and enjoyment, where they warmly welcome new team members into their fold.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Delivery of projects from inception to completion ensuring that scope, contracts, programmes, change management, risk registers, budgets and QA procedures are all in place and maintained through the life of a project.
• Coordinating our Multidisciplinary design consultancy team.
• Managing the design process through design workshops and leading project meetings.
• Develop positive and collaborative working relationships with project team, clients and contractors.
• Communicate with and represent the Client’s interest and provide a professional and cost-effective service that meets their expectations.
• Management of sub-consultants as the project requires, typically this may be specialist designers, quantity surveyors or architects.
• Assume responsibility for the day to day management of all project activities including Monthly Reports, Minutes and Programmes, and delivery of presentations when required.
• Ensuring coordinated and high-quality deliverables from our multidisciplinary teams.
• Support to bid teams and preparation of proposals for multi-disciplinary tenders alongside the discipline team leaders.

Your key deliverables for this role will be:

• Preparation and delivery of projects to budget, time and quality.
• Creating positive working relationships with Design teams, Clients and Contractors.
• Coordinating design deliverables and ensuring quality outputs.
• Developing safe, sustainable and profitable solutions.

From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• Minimum HNC/HND in a Building/Civil Engineering/Project Management or related discipline, however a degree is preferred.
• Track record demonstrating experience of managing the design and construction process – planning, programming, fee management, understanding appointments and scopes of works, change control, understanding the inter-dependencies of the members of design team when programming works.
• Preferably a member or an associate member of an appropriate construction focused association or Institute (APM / ICE) etc. If not currently a member of such organisation you will be required to work towards and achieving qualifications with APM within a reasonable agreed timeframe.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation, including CDM Regulations is desirable, however training will be provided.
• Experience of managing commercial processes on projects.
• Experience of managing your own workload within a multidisciplinary consultancy.
• A basic understanding of procurement methods and contract administration requirements is desirable e.g. NEC, JCT, ACE, ICE, GC Works or FIDIC, however training will be provided as required.
• Excellent communication and IT skills are essential to fulfil this position.
• Ability to write high quality reports and be able to interrogate financial information.
• Ability to confidently and articulately represent Ramboll at client meetings.

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role are:

• You are a confident communicator and listener.
• You have the ability to manage multiple stakeholder requirements and then communicate these requirements back to the project teams, often across geographical borders.

As one of the top 10 building designers in the world, Ramboll works on more than 10,000 building projects each year. 4,000 experts across the world specialise in creating more innovative, sustainable and liveable buildings. We place particular emphasis on our liveable buildings concept where we balance the cultural, social and physical values of buildings, to improve the quality of life for building users.