Ganymede
Project Manager
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💧 Project Manager / Assistant Project Manager | Engineering Design | Water
📍 Manchester | 🏡 Hybrid Working | 💰 £45,000–£55,000 DOE + Excellent Benefits
Ready to Build Your Career Delivering Major Water Infrastructure Projects?
Whether you're an Assistant Project Manager ready to take the next step or an experienced Project Manager looking for greater ownership, this is an exciting opportunity to join a growing engineering consultancy delivering multidisciplinary design projects across the UK water sector.
We're expanding our Project Management team and are looking to recruit at both Assistant Project Manager and Project Manager level.
You'll work alongside highly experienced engineers, designers and project leaders, helping to deliver complex engineering design projects that make a real difference to the UK's water infrastructure.
If you enjoy working in a collaborative environment, building strong client relationships and seeing projects through from concept to completion, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note: Previous engineering design project experience is essential.
🚀 The Opportunity
You'll play a key role in delivering multidisciplinary engineering design projects, ensuring they're completed safely, on programme, within budget and to the highest quality standards.
Depending on your level of experience, you'll either:
Assistant Project Manager (£45,000)
- You'll support Project Managers in the successful delivery of projects while developing the skills and experience needed to progress into a Project Manager position.
- You'll gain exposure to project planning, commercial management, NEC contracts, client engagement and multidisciplinary design coordination, with structured mentoring and clear career progression.
Project Manager (£55,000)
- You'll take ownership of projects from inception through to completion, managing programme, budget, commercial performance and client relationships while leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and mentoring junior Project Managers.
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🔧 What You'll Be Doing
Depending on your experience, your responsibilities will include:
- Delivering multidisciplinary engineering design projects within the water sector
- Managing or supporting project programmes, budgets and delivery milestones
- Coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and external supply chain partners
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and key stakeholders
- Supporting or managing NEC and other contract requirements
- Monitoring project progress, risks, change and commercial performance
- Assisting with or leading tender submissions and technical proposals
- Reporting project performance to senior leadership
- Driving collaboration across engineering disciplines to ensure successful project delivery
- Supporting and mentoring junior team members (Project Manager level)
👤 About You
We're looking for ambitious individuals who enjoy working within collaborative engineering environments and want to build a long-term career delivering major infrastructure projects.
Assistant Project Manager
- 2–5 years' experience in engineering design, design coordination or design project management
- Degree or HND in Engineering or a related discipline
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- A genuine ambition to develop into a Project Manager
Project Manager
- Proven Project Management or Design Management experience
- Experience delivering multidisciplinary engineering design projects
- Strong understanding of programme management, commercial performance and project delivery
- Experience managing clients, stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams
- Strong understanding of engineering design project lifecycles
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Desirable for Both
- Experience within the UK water sector
- Knowledge of NEC contracts
- Experience with project planning, cost control and change management
- Understanding of multidisciplinary engineering environments
- Awareness of commercial and contractual principles
- Experience contributing to tenders and client-facing activities
🌟 Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a consultancy that's investing in its people, supporting career development and delivering projects that shape the future of the UK's water infrastructure.
You'll benefit from:
- Working on exciting multidisciplinary engineering design projects
- Clear career progression from Assistant Project Manager through to Project Manager and beyond
- Support and mentoring from experienced engineers and project leaders
- Opportunities to contribute to client-facing work and tender submissions
- Flexible hybrid working
- Free on-site parking with excellent transport links
- Access to a fully equipped on-site gym with changing facilities
- Structured training, CPD and ongoing professional development
- Monthly team brunches and quarterly social events
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free fruit in the office
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service
- Option to purchase additional annual leave
📩 Ready to Take the Next Step?
Whether you're looking to step into your first Project Management role or you're already leading engineering design projects and want your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today or get in touch for a confidential conversation to find out more about joining our growing Project Management team.
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