Assistant Project Manager

About the job.

National Highways has an excellent opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join the Integration & Enablement (I&E) team within Major Projects on the A66 programme. The I&E team works across the programme to improve alignment, coordination and future readiness in areas including communications and stakeholder engagement, lands, utilities, traffic management, operational collaboration and futureproofing.

As an Assistant Project Manager, you will support Project Managers and workstream leads in turning agreed strategies and priorities into clear, practical plans. You will coordinate information across work packages and specialist functions, maintain visibility of milestones, dependencies, risks and decisions, and support governance, performance reporting, handover and continuous improvement.

Please note this position can be based from either our Manchester or Leeds offices; however, travel to the A66, will be required.

• Support the development, implementation and review of I&E strategies, workstream plans and delivery arrangements, ensuring agreed actions are practical, clearly owned and aligned with programme priorities.


• Develop and maintain proportionate project and programme management products, including integrated plans, milestone and look-ahead schedules, action trackers, risk and issue records, decision logs, governance products and handover packs.


• Coordinate inputs from work package teams, specialist functions, stakeholders, delivery partners and the supply chain to identify key milestones, interfaces, dependencies, constraints, commitments and decisions required to support effective delivery.


• Support the preparation of reports and briefing information, maintaining actions and commitments, tracking project readiness and progress, and highlighting matters requiring intervention or escalation.


• Analyse project and workstream information to identify emerging risks, gaps, inconsistencies and potential impacts on future activities, and support the development and monitoring of mitigation or recovery actions.


• Support the Project Manager in day-to-day project activities, including commercial and contract administration, health and safety, risk, quality and assurance.

About you.

• Suitable project management qualification or equivalent relevant experience, ideally with membership of, or a commitment to work towards membership of, an appropriate professional body (i.e. APM). 


• Experience of supporting project or programme delivery in a complex, multi-disciplinary or matrix environment.


• Good understanding of health and safety, quality and governance requirements within project delivery.


• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to coordinate several activities, maintain accurate records and manage competing priorities.


• Strong collaboration, stakeholder, communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to bring together contributions from a wide range of teams and disciplines.


• Good analytical and constructive challenge skills, with the ability to interpret project information, identify gaps or inconsistencies, provide clear commentary and escalate concerns through agreed governance routes is desirable. 

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Major Projects is responsible for major enhancements to our road network. We make roads safer, journeys more reliable and unlock economic growth. At the same time, we seek out ways to create opportunities for sustainable travel, help nature to thrive and support our journey to net zero carbon.

Our teams work closely with the supply chain to design and construct road projects, as well as develop a pipeline of possible projects as we look to the future. Our skills span many areas, from customer experts and land and property advisers to project management. We understand the potential that our road schemes can bring.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.