Role: Assistant Project Manager
Location: Plymouth
Duration: 12 months
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About our client:
Our client in Devonport is a leading engineering and maritime organisation specialising in the maintenance, repair, and overhaul of naval vessels. The site operates with a skilled workforce across mechanical, electrical, and technical disciplines, delivering high-quality and complex engineering projects. It offers a structured and collaborative working environment with opportunities for hands-on experience and professional development.
Purpose of the role
The Assistant Project Manager shall support the Package Manager in managing the delivery of the Building C design. This new post shall help the team in managing the new changes to the Building C designs brought about by the electrical change and allow for a dedicated resource to manage the change.
This post shall support the current programme challenge and support the handover to ops date as efficiently as possible.
The Major Infrastructure Projects directorate provides major new or upgraded dock, berth and building infrastructure projects to provide facilities for the ship and submarine sustainment programmes at Devonport.
This is an exciting opportunity to progress your career and assist in the delivery of Defence design and safety engineering projects, with opportunities for further development and progression within the Company.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Competences
The candidate must have experience of working within a project environment managing Civil and or Mechanical Systems designs packages, ideally with client side NEC4 contract experience.
Knowledge of highly regulated environments (preferably Nuclear) and complex document management systems.
The project will be on the Nuclear Licensed site and therefore experience in delivery of Nuclear safety implicated structures, equipment or services would be of benefit.
A Bachelors or Master's Degree - desired.
APM project management qualification PFQ/PMQ (or equivalent) - desired.
NEC4 Accredited Project Manager - desired
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