Project Managers & Assistant PMs – Infrastructure (Energy, Utilities & Transport)
Our aim is to become the Trusted Advisor for our clients in the construction and operational phases of major capital programmes (both in public and private sector) by leveraging:
- our people and their extensive industry experience
- existing processes and relationships
- our global EY experience across the Capital Programme Delivery (CPD) project lifecycle
Responsibilities:
- Working directly with EY’s infrastructure clients (across our focus sectors; energy, water, transport, gas, telecoms, housing, and healthcare) to help create innovative insights and solutions to meet their needs.
- Advising clients on the challenges relating to the delivery of capital projects and programmes
- Project set-up and mobilisation, defining the operating model and delivery strategy.
- Working as part of a team to ensure that all project deliverables are managed to time, cost and quality.
- Ensuring that project plans, project logs (E.g., Risks, assumptions issues, dependencies logs) and project budgets are managed effectively.
- Delivery of major project/programme activities throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Integrating data to inform insights by sharing technical, sector and market knowledge in their area of expertise.
- Applying knowledge, experience and expertise to shape services to clients with limited direction, including development of high-quality work products and presentation of project outputs, as required.
- Participating in and as required, acting as the lead on small engagements or work-streams.
- Assessing the maturity of programme management and/or operations of an infrastructure or capital programme and where required implementing recommendations to improve that maturity.
- High quality business writing and ability to communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders, (including senior management team), via meetings, presentations and reports.
- Continuous development and improvement of processes and procedures within the team.
Internal Responsibilities
- Assisting in client account management activities such as recruitment for the project team, managing financial aspects of client engagements, and quality and risk management.
- Building valued relationships with clients and colleagues to assist in generating new business across EY.
- Providing a supporting role in presentations and proposals for elements of medium to high complex projects to prospective and existing clients.
- Communicating effectively with EY senior management and working to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams.
- Understanding all our service offerings and actively identifying opportunities to better serve clients.
- Building strong internal relationships within Consulting and across other service lines.
- Supporting team development activities, including:
- Coaching, and mentoring activities.
- Conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback.
- Contributing to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training activities.
- Maintaining an educational programme to continually develop technical skills.
- Understanding, following, and communicating workplace policies and procedures
To do this role effectively, we are looking for people with
knowledge and experiencein the following areas:
- 3rd level educational qualification in Engineering, Construction, or a related field.
- Assistant Project Manager– Approx. 3-6 years’ experience as a Project Engineer or Project Co-ordinator delivering engineering capital projects.
- Project / Programme Manager –Approx. 6 -20 years’ experience delivering large scale engineering capital projects in line with the responsibilities outlined above.
- Ideal candidates will have:
- Experience in consulting or similar client facing role.
- Multidisciplinary experience including project management, engineering feasibility and design, contract management and procurement.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with a track record in managing complex programmes.
- Good understanding of project governance and change management principles
- Additional professional qualifications, such as PRINCE2® or PMP, are desirable.