Role: Junior or Assistant Project Manager (APM)

Location: Bristol city centre

Onsite: 4 days per week with Friday as WFH

Salary: £33,000 - £37,000 + company bonus Approx. £4,000 on top

We are seeking a talented APM to join an established Bristol based Engineering / Defence Services SME based in Central Bristol. If you have an entrepreneur side and passion for pushing the envelope while maintaining procures, we would like to hear from you.

We have taken on teachers and admin staff and trained them to become an assistant project manager because we believe you can train skills with the right person! However, if you are currently a APM we also want to hear from you!

We supply complex manufacturing and critical services to Rolls Royce and the MoD. You will be working from our Bristol city centre office.

We are seeking driven individuals to join a high performing team for a PM career. We will support your development, funding additional qualifications and strive and support a good work life balance.

As a APM you can be a university leaver or be working as an APM, but you must have:

• Admin skills in excel
• People person who can work with people within various departments
• Sales order and customer experience
• The role involves communicating with the Buyers and end customer so must be customer focused
• Must be able to manage data accurately

Main duties

• Deliver key project management functions in support of overall project delivery including financial, schedule, quality, and risk functions.
• Competing any tasks assigned by the Director of Project in a timely manner and assisting with activities in achieving project deliverables.
• Communicating with stakeholders on the progress of the project and capturing stakeholder requirements and needs.
• Creating, monitoring and managing Customer demands in an ERP system to meet the contractual delivery KPI targets.
• Responsible for the management of Post Design Services requested by the Customer within the agreed triple constraints including reporting performance to the Customer and the Director of Projects.
• Responsible for developing strong relationships with key customer stakeholders to capture, analyse and achieve customer requirements.
• Creating monthly project progress (for both internal and external stakeholders) to update schedules in line with project reporting timelines and best practice.
• Oversee variable aspects of the project and provide direct assistance to ensure timely project execution.
• Applying effective risk management throughout the project life cycle to mitigate the risk of project failure.
• Assist in the planning and scheduling of project activities including resource levelling and smoothing.
• Creating and utilizing cost models to input / analyse data collected from the Procurement Team.