Assistant Project Manager

Join Equans, a leading energies and services contractor and a proud member of the global industrial group, Bouygues. With a rich history of excellence in designing, constructing, and maintaining buildings and critical infrastructure worldwide, we are now offering exciting new opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to support our technical team at the Leeds Generating Station complex.

Equans Embedded Energy operates multiple customer sites with large-scale embedded energy capacity across the UK, providing specialist management of onsite generation for industrial processes and the ability to export to the Grid. We combine multiple technologies to meet our customers’ specific needs, and provide design, build, operate and maintenance services. Our skills and expertise can help industrial businesses to achieve their carbon reduction goals.

We are experts in many technologies, including combined heat and power (CHP), biomass, and energy from waste. By locating generation on customers’ sites we provide our customers with industry leading safety management, reduced energy costs and carbon footprint and assured energy security for their operational needs.

Key Activities:

• Coordinate all important administrative, logistical, and technical details with all project stakeholders.
• Understand each project thoroughly, plan, and monitor all necessary steps, project milestones, and organize all aspects of the project from start to finish.
• Prepare the Project Documentation
• Coordinate with the project teams to establish realistic estimates and timelines for each project.
• Prepare reports, summaries, charts, graphs and PowerPoint presentations to facilitate and communicate projects and programmes
• Maintain a designated project folder for each individual project, and manage good practice record keeping.
• Develop and maintain the project or programme Risk Register.
• Break the project into milestones and manage set times as well as budget figures for each work element.
• On large projects manage Gateway approvals, responsible for checking each gateway and ensuring that the management aspects have been satisfied on both process and deliverables.
• Carry out the role of Project Manager when required on minor projects.
• Provide the existing managers within Embedded Generation with project support
• Maintain the project management system to ensure that best practice and key knowledge is shared.
• Ensure project audits are completed and actions implemented.
• Communicate project status clearly and frequently with project steering committee and project team.
• Schedule and coordinate meetings, appointments and travel arrangements.

Skills, qualifications & experience: 

Qualifications:

• A HND or equivalent higher education qualification in a relevant engineering discipline

Experience:

• This is a Developmental Role, prior project experience would be beneficial but not essential
• Possesses knowledge on the company’s methods, procedures and philosophy
• Microsoft office applications

We offer an excellent benefits package including: 

• 24 days annual leave (+ public holidays) 
• Equans share scheme
• Private GP appointments
• Life Cover equivalent to 1 times annual salary 
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers 
• Gym membership discounts  
• Cycle to work scheme  
• Holiday purchase scheme 
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year 
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes 
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme 
• Access to our growing employee networks including WiE (Women in EQUANS), RISE (BAME), LGBTQI+, Working Parents, YPN (Young Persons Network) and our Disability Network 
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app 

Who are we?

EQUANS is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros.  

In the UK & Ireland, EQUANS is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables.

EQUANS’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live.

EQUANS is a Bouygues group company.

What’s next?

If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.

At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work. You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including WiE (Women in Equans), RISE (BAME), LGBTQI+, Working Parents, YPN (Young Professionals Network) and our Disability Network. 

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role.  Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The EQUANS Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to EQUANS Managers.