Assistant Project Manager

THE VACANCY

Title: Assistant Project Manager

Location: Madrid, Spain

Reporting to: Senior Project Manager, Project Management

Department Overview

Our dedicated Project Management Team at RLB are responsible for delivering projects, often supporting from the initial planning stages all the way through to completion. We understand our client’s objectives for their projects and invest in helping them exceed them.

Our growing team in this region are actively operating and investing in Education, Public and Civic, Residential, Commercial Life Sciences, Sports and Data Centre projects and clients. Our Project Managers work in close contact with our clients, helping translate an initial idea into a delivered project. We pride ourselves on the quality of our service to our clients and enjoy long-term relationships with them.

Overview Of Role

We are currently recruiting an Assistant Project Manager or Support Project Manager in Spain, Madrid. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated individual to join and strengthen our Project Management offering and presents an excellent prospect for a proactive individual to take responsibility for providing all core Project Management services on several interesting projects, for a wide range of clients.

This is an exciting moment to join RLB and be part of our journey; as our Project Management offering grows, you will have the opportunity to work across many sectors and will gain valuable project and client exposure. You’ll be part of a strong team of project managers and be offered a platform to progress with genuine support from the team and wider business to achieve your career goals.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting the project management of projects, coordinating the management of the project timetable, quality, and cost, and ensuring client requirements are delivered.

• Working as part of the PM team to ensure we achieve business objectives.
• Take personal responsibility for complying with Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards
  
  

Professional Skills

• Awareness of the project lifecycle from feasibility through to completion and post-handover.
• Experience in developing and implementing project controls for example programmes and risk registers.
• Establishing and overseeing the meetings and other communications needed to successfully deliver the project.
• Experience in procurement of professional teams and contractors
• Management of multi-disciplinary project teams
• Working knowledge of various common forms of building contracts (JCT and NEC) and experience in administering building contracts
  
  

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to managing their projects and will be a positive and committed team member.

• Construction Project Management degree or a similar construction-related qualification with technical delivery experience in a similar role gained within a consultancy or end-user client.
• Chartered or equivalent professional qualification or currently working toward
• Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal.
• Excellent customer service, communication, and client/external interface skills
• A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering to deadlines
• A team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, and flexible
• Ability to identify and develop potential opportunities to secure more business for RLB
  
  

Company Overview

• With 1,200 UK staff and 4,500 worldwide Rider Levett Bucknall has a truly global reach, and with such scope can offer a local presence to its clients almost without exception. We are committed to our core services and pride ourselves on our dedication to customer care and leading-edge service provision.
• We are an award-winning leading independent firm providing our clients with some of the most comprehensive and forward-thinking advice available.
• We offer a range of complementary project management, quantity surveying, building surveying and advisory services from conception, through design and construction and operational performance of facilities to their eventual disposal or reuse.
• Our clients have rapid access to the latest industry intelligence and innovations, which serve to enhance value and mitigate risk.
• We provide expert management of the relationship between value, time and cost from inception to completion. We do this through our global and local team of experts, who possess a passion for both core services and innovation.
• We are committed to developing new services and techniques aimed at enhancing our clients' businesses in the long term.