Engineering

Junior Project Manager

  • Location

    Salisbury

  • Sector:

    Product, Project & Executive

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £25.000 - £31250 per annum + bonus + healthcare

  • Contact:

    Kristina Filipovic

  • Contact email:

    k.filipovic@ioassociates.co.uk

  • Job ref:

    BBBH83641_1659973074

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

PROJECT MANAGER (JUNIOR) - Salisbury/ Hybrid
£25,200 to £31,275 (based on individual skills and experience) + benefits + bonus

An exciting opportunity arisen to join an experienced team initially delivering scheduling support while growing a wide variety of project management skills and experience in support of public sector digital transformation programmes.
This is a permanent position only.

You will have

  • Awareness of project management
  • The project lifecycle, project demand signal and project finances.
  • Good organisational and record keeping skills with ability to prioritise workload and multi-task.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with individuals at varying levels.
  • Ability to work as part of a team or independently and unsupervised.
  • Willingness to learn and develop as part of the digital team.
  • Basic understanding of project schedules plans and resources.
  • Logical thinker and problem solver.
  • Eye for detail and demonstrable competence in MS Project, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
  • Desirable - Awareness of Agile Delivery


In this role, you are likely to be working with approaches such as

  • Scheduling and Timescale Risk Analysis.
  • Project Management methodologies such as Agile, Scaled Agile and Waterfall.
  • Tools such as MS Project or Primavera P6.
  • Project Control tools such as Project Works.


Main Responsibilities:

  • Assisting and supporting the development and maintenance of planning control structures in alignment with approved project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Assisting and supporting the development and maintenance of baseline project plans and schedules.
  • Monitor and reporting of planning activities through all phases of project lifecycle.
  • Preparing and providing copies and analytics of project progress and performance status reports in accordance with project reporting requirements.
  • Monitoring overall project progress status, achievement of major milestones, and analysing project performance in relation to planned performance.
  • Providing insight into alternative approaches to achieve goals and identification of efficiency improvements or risk reduction.
  • Liaison with the technical team, commercial and sales, including third parties, to maintain awareness of project activities, their status, and their impact on
  • the project schedule and manpower requirements.


CULTURAL FIT CRITERIA

Seeing the Big Picture

  • An ability to focus on the goals and overall intent rather than just individual tasks.
  • Taking an active interest in expanding your own knowledge.


Changing and Improving

  • Taking the initiative to suggest ideas for improvement of yours or others' approaches in an appropriate way.
  • Learning new procedures and seeking to exploit new technologies and helping colleagues to do the same.


Making Effective Decisions

  • An ability to speak with relevant people to obtain the most accurate information and seek advice when unable to proceed.
  • Monitor and store critical data securely and accurately, confidentially, and responsibly.


Leading and Communicating

  • Listen to, understand, respect, and accept the value of different views, ideas, and ways of working.
  • Put forward your own ideas in a clear and constructive manner, choosing an appropriate communication method.


Collaborating and Partnering

  • Readily identify opportunities to share knowledge, information and learning and make progress by working with others, and other organisations.
  • Proactively seek others with whom collaboration would deliver benefit.


Building Capability for All

  • Take responsibility for quality of your own work and seek opportunities for improvement through continuous improvement.
  • Take account of the diverse contributions of team members.


Achieving Commercial Outcomes

  • Recognise factors which contribute to achievement of commercial outcome and proactively support them.
  • Gather and use evidence to assess the costs, benefits, and risks of a range of delivery options.


Delivering value for money

  • Understand that all actions have a cost and choose the most effective way to do something in a resource efficient way.
  • Handle numbers confidently, collating information ensuring accuracy of data.


Managing a Quality Service

  • Work with team to set priorities, create clear plans and manage own work to meet the needs of the delivery teams.
  • Communicate in a way which meets and anticipates the customer's requirements and promotes an effectives



Why join our client

  • Opportunity to play a significant part within a small business.
  • Joining unique projects to learn, grow and excel, by learning on-the-job, learning from others and through formal learning.
  • Work in a supportive culture with access to a wide range of people to support your development - with professional qualifications and mentoring to help you steer your career in your chosen direction.
  • Be at the heart of the digital revolution in globally important organisations.
  • Earn a competitive salary, with 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and the ability to design a flexible benefits package to meet your personal needs.


PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Our client provides and active approach to professional development with a centrally funded budget including full scope of EdX courses available to all their staff.
  • Coaching and mentoring is provided utilising the best experience across our collaborative partnership to provide a wide range of formal and informal accelerated development.


EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

  • Entitlement to join the company Medical Insurance scheme.
  • Additional Health related benefits.
  • IT and Mobile Phone.
  • Entitlement to join the company Pension scheme.
  • Company performance bonus scheme.

Due to nature of our clinet's projects you will Security Clearable.

Keen to grow with global organisation. If so contact me ASAP.