Assistant Project Manager

Role: Assistant Project Manager

Location: Devonport, Plymouth

Duration: 12 months

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About our client

Our client is a leading global aerospace, defence, and security company specializing in delivering complex, mission-critical solutions. With a strong heritage in engineering and innovation, they provide essential services across aviation, marine, land, and nuclear sectors, supporting governments, armed forces, and commercial clients worldwide. Renowned for their commitment to safety, sustainability, and technological advancement, our client plays a vital role in ensuring operational excellence for their customers. Join them and be part of a team that drives innovation and delivers cutting-edge solutions in some of the world''s most demanding environments.

Assistant Project Manager - Security

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. As Assistant Project Manager you''ll work with multi-discipline infrastructure system designs to provide an overall sustainment capability mainly for the buildings and docks.

Using your experience in facility upgrade or construction projects you will manage the delivery security systems designs and work with users and other stakeholders to ensure that the integrated facility provides the sustainment capability. You will use your project management expertise to ensure the end product meets the technical and operational requirements of the facility.

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.

Main Purpose of Role

Responsible for ensuring the project management delivery of the Dock

• Assistant Project Manager Security - This is a key role providing support to the Package Manager managing the facility design contracts.
• To assist and work collaboratively alongside the 2 Subject Matter Experts and the Package Manager.
• Responsible for information gathering and dissemination.
• Responsible for representing the Security team where necessary
• Ensure connectivity with other areas of Devonport Security
• Be prepared to question decisions using our client''s core principles
• Take and distribute meeting minutes/tracker
• Supporting the delivery of schedule, scope, contractual, financial and risk management functions.
• The role will require frequent travel to design Consultants'' offices UK wide.
• Assisting the technical and project team in development of requirements, project scope and solutions for specific work packages.
• Translate supply chain reporting into useable data to inform planning, monitoring and control of work packages.
• Support input to cost and budget monitoring.
• Develop Stakeholder management and communications plans.
• Document andamp; Deliverable management
• Support the risk process including the identification, assessment, planning and implementation of risks, opportunities and issues.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Competences

• Project management background
• Electrical engineering background preferred
• Knowledge of Physical Security principles would be an advantage
• NEC4
• CEMAR
• Autodesk (CDE/Vault)<