Assistant Project Manager

Do you have cross-functional communication skills? Do you have a coordinated approach to managing risks? Do you enjoy managing multiple co-running projects? Then we have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Project Manager, reporting into the Lead Project Manager and based at our manufacturing site in Whitstable.
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You will be providing project leadership to various UK&I business unit teams. Maintaining close interactions and engagement with our internal and external stakeholders to successfully manage and deliver a range of projects, from minor business improvements to new product introductions.
What you can expect as an Assistant Project Manager:
Drive a lean product delivery process for various projects, reporting on project progress, budgets, schedule and risk identification and mitigation; resource management, working closely with functional leads
Build, motivate and lead project teams in the successful delivery of multiple co-running projects
Support the function leads in the estimation and coordination of current and future project resource requirements
Take a strategic approach to project delivery, understanding and addressing inter-dependencies and raising the real issues
Identify risks early and through a coordinated approach with the project and business team, introduce mitigation actions to ensure minimal project impact
Perform change analysis, identifying and reporting impacts of both project and business issues
Assist in the development of the project business cases, annual project budget forecasts and project budget adherence
Generation and presentation of monthly project progress reports, including critical performance KPIs
Embed the use world class tools and techniques to bring the pipeline of new products to market which are right-first-time, on-time, and to budget
Maintain an awareness of, and where beneficial to the business implement, new project management practices. This could be via external networking, blogs, forums and / or engagement with the wider Swegon team
Commit to HR & SHEQ standards across the business, supporting the teams to deliver continuous improvements
Provide feedback regarding future team development opportunities, ensuring that the required technical and operational skills are in place to address future project needs
We are looking for someone with:
At least 2 years demonstrable experience in the management and delivery of multiple concurrent projects, preferably of differing types and scopes
Able to demonstrate understanding, capability and usage of with multiple project management methodologies – visual management, waterfall, agile, etc
What happens next?
If this sounds like you and you’d like to join our company, then apply now!
About Swegon:
We are partners for indoor environment solutions that work exactly as desired – adding value from project start to finish, and beyond. We enable healthy and comfortable indoor environments for people to be at their best, today and tomorrow.