Assistant Project Management

We're looking for a high-performing Assistant Project Manager to join our London team-someone currently operating within a consultancy environment and ready to take the next step in their career, working on major, multi-disciplinary property schemes. The Opportunity You'll join a growing and ambitious team delivering a diverse portfolio of projects across sectors such as commercial real estate, education, public sector, heritage, and mixed-use developments. This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced consultancy environment-comfortable working with clients, consultants, and contractors, and keen to build their profile through hands-on project delivery and increasing responsibility.Your role

• Supporting the delivery of projects from inception through to completion across a range of property sectors
• Assisting in managing project governance, programme, cost, risk, and change control frameworks
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, ensuring collaboration and clear communication across stakeholders
• Supporting client engagement-attending meetings, preparing reports, and contributing to key project decisions
• Monitoring project performance against KPIs, identifying risks and opportunities early
• Supporting procurement activities, tender processes, and contract administration (e.g. JCT)
• Contributing to high-quality project documentation, including reports, programmes, and briefing papers
• Building strong working relationships with internal teams and external partners, This isn't just about supporting projects-it's about accelerating your career within a business that trusts you with responsibility early, values your input, and supports your development into a future Project Manager and beyond.
  
  We're keen to hear from candidates who are currently working in a project management consultancy and have experience delivering similar scale projects.
Essential:
• Experience in project management within the built environment
• Experience working on property/building projects (e.g. commercial, education, residential, public sector)
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle, governance, and delivery processes
• Exposure to contract administration (JCT or NEC)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive, organised, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
Desirable:
• Working towards (or recently achieved) APM, RICS, or equivalent professional accreditation
• Experience within a recognised consultancy environment
• Knowledge of programme management tools and reporting systems
• Understanding of risk management and change control processes
  
  At AtkinsRéalis, we're redefining how projects are delivered across the built environment-bringing together deep technical expertise, digital innovation, and a genuinely collaborative culture. Our Project & Programme Management team in Buildings & Places is at the heart of some of the UK's most high-profile and complex developments., We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people., At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
  
  Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.