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Graduate Project Manager

Focus ResourcingCity, Cardiff🇬🇧United Kingdom

Why this role stands out

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to accelerate your career by leading high-impact, national IT infrastructure projects within a dynamic and collaborative team environment. You will thrive in this position if you are a proactive problem-solver who enjoys coordinating complex logistics and building strong professional relationships. Apply today to leverage this hybrid-flexible role to expand your technical expertise and take the next significant step in your project management journey.

Quick overview

Salary£32k/yr
SeniorityEntry Level
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationCity, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Microsoft ExcelPrince2Project Management

Job description

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our client's busy Project Services division. Are client needs someone who thrives on bringing complex projects together - coordinating people, suppliers, logistics and technical delivery to achieve successful results across multiple locations.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a strong background in national, multi-site IT or data infrastructure projects, who enjoys working at pace, solving problems and keeping everyone moving towards the same goal.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

  • Taking end-to-end responsibility for national IT and data infrastructure rollouts.
  • Building and managing detailed project plans, schedules, trackers, reporting and governance controls.
  • Managing milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues and change throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Coordinating activity across geographically dispersed sites, ensuring everything is in place for successful delivery.
  • Overseeing structured cabling and associated infrastructure installations, including Cat6 and Cat6A, containment and related technologies.
  • Building strong relationships with customers, suppliers, subcontractors and internal teams.
  • Coordinating engineers, subcontractors, supply-chain partners, equipment and logistics.
  • Managing budgets, forecasts, scope, risks, documentation and change to keep delivery predictable and controlled.
  • Ensuring quality, health and safety and technical standards are maintained.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

  • Strong project management experience within national, multi-site IT or data infrastructure environments.
  • Strong experience managing project scope, budgets, schedules, quality, risk, dependencies and change.
  • A good understanding of the practical challenges involved in delivering projects.
  • Experience using tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, Smartsheet or similar project management and reporting systems.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
  • A proactive and practical approach to problem-solving.
  • The ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
  • A practical understanding of structured cabling, including Cat6/Cat6A installations, containment, testing and quality assurance.

It would be great if you also have:

  • PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner, or equivalent.
  • ITIL Foundation, or an equivalent service-management qualification.

SALARY & BENEFITS:

Starting salary of 32,000 with lots of scope to progress and grow within the division.

  • Healthcare provided through BUPA
  • 23 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays.
  • Company pension.
  • Group Income Protection.
  • Life assurance.

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