Assistant Project Manager - Highways (Sizewell C)
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Assistant Project Manager- Highways
Location: Sizewell C, Ipswich, Suffolk (onsite 5 days a week)
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Salary: circa £55,000 – 65,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits
Benefits include:
• Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
• Bonus: Up to 5% annual bonus.
• Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution -15% employer contribution.
• Flexible Benefits: Additional allowance for a variety of benefits including.
Closing Date: Sunday 15th March 2026.
About the Role
As Assistant Project Manager – Highways, you will report directly to a Project Manager and support the wider team in delivering activities across the full life cycle of a contract or work package. This includes engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning, ensuring delivery in line with safety, quality, time, and cost parameters.
Key Responsibilities
• Support planning and delivery of contract and project work packages.
• Demonstrate success in managing and developing:
Engineering design, contract, and field execution strategies.
Multi-disciplinary projects
Procurement and management of complex contracts.
Control of costs, risk, schedule, and change.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, suppliers, and the project team.
• Respond to technical queries from the contractor.
• Manage and resolve issues within contracts/packages in a timely manner.
• Ensure deliverables are completed to scope, quality, and safety standards.
• Apply industry knowledge and experience from related infrastructure projects.
Essential Skills & Experience
• NEC Contract experience.
• Experience managing contractors, consultants, and advisors on complex highway construction projects in regulated environments.
• Proficiency in interpreting technical schematics and engineering drawings.
• Success in managing/developing engineering design for multi disciplinary highway projects.
• Good knowledge of CDM Regulations.
• Experience using Common Data Environments for document control.
• Experience administering and delivering live construction contracts to high quality and safety standards.
Additional required Skills
• Degree in civil engineering and construction (or equivalent experience).
• Incorporated status (or working towards) with a relevant membership body.
• Experience in design and/or delivery of infrastructure projects.
• IT literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word/Excel).
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to reprioritise tasks in a fast paced, changing environment.
• Willingness to learn from both successes and failures.
Desirable:
Proficiency with CEMAR, Viewpoint
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering complex highway projects that shape the future of infrastructure. You’ll be part of a dynamic team, working on challenging projects with the chance to grow your career and make a meaningful impact.
Are you ready to take the next step in your career?
Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
The Sizewell C Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.#SZCJobs
Assistant Project Manager- Highways
Location: Sizewell C, Ipswich, Suffolk (onsite 5 days a week)
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Salary: circa £55,000 – 65,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits
Benefits include:
• Annual Leave: 28 days per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
• Bonus: Up to 5% annual bonus.
• Pension Contributions: Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution -15% employer contribution.
• Flexible Benefits: Additional allowance for a variety of benefits including.
Closing Date: Sunday 15th March 2026.
About the Role
As Assistant Project Manager – Highways, you will report directly to a Project Manager and support the wider team in delivering activities across the full life cycle of a contract or work package. This includes engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning, ensuring delivery in line with safety, quality, time, and cost parameters.
Key Responsibilities
• Support planning and delivery of contract and project work packages.
• Demonstrate success in managing and developing:
Engineering design, contract, and field execution strategies.
Multi-disciplinary projects
Procurement and management of complex contracts.
Control of costs, risk, schedule, and change.
• Maintain effective communication with stakeholders, suppliers, and the project team.
• Respond to technical queries from the contractor.
• Manage and resolve issues within contracts/packages in a timely manner.
• Ensure deliverables are completed to scope, quality, and safety standards.
• Apply industry knowledge and experience from related infrastructure projects.
Essential Skills & Experience
• NEC Contract experience.
• Experience managing contractors, consultants, and advisors on complex highway construction projects in regulated environments.
• Proficiency in interpreting technical schematics and engineering drawings.
• Success in managing/developing engineering design for multi disciplinary highway projects.
• Good knowledge of CDM Regulations.
• Experience using Common Data Environments for document control.
• Experience administering and delivering live construction contracts to high quality and safety standards.
Additional required Skills
• Degree in civil engineering and construction (or equivalent experience).
• Incorporated status (or working towards) with a relevant membership body.
• Experience in design and/or delivery of infrastructure projects.
• IT literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word/Excel).
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to reprioritise tasks in a fast paced, changing environment.
• Willingness to learn from both successes and failures.
Desirable:
Proficiency with CEMAR, Viewpoint
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering complex highway projects that shape the future of infrastructure. You’ll be part of a dynamic team, working on challenging projects with the chance to grow your career and make a meaningful impact.
Are you ready to take the next step in your career?
Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.
For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.