Project Manager

GHD Group

Purpose of the Role

• Project coordination: Assist with planning, scheduling, look-ahead updates, action logs, decision registers, and meeting minutes.
• Documentation & reporting: Prepare and maintain design briefs, registers, transmittals, submittal trackers, and progress reports; ensure tidy version control and audit trails.
• Data & spreadsheets: Build and update spreadsheets for programme, cost, risk, change and reporting; maintain formulas, validations, pivot tables, and clear formatting.
• Document formatting: Apply house styles and templates across reports, registers, and presentations; proofread for consistency and clarity.
• Proposals & submissions: Draft and format proposal sections and capability statements; compile curriculum vitae, project sheets, compliance matrices, forms, and submission checklists.
• Stakeholder engagement: Support communications with clients, consultants, contractors, and internal teams; schedule workshops and record outcomes.
• Risk, quality, health, safety and environment: Log risks and mitigation actions; help apply project quality procedures and escalate issues appropriately.
• Financial support: Assist with monthly reporting inputs, purchase requests, simple cost and cash-flow updates, and change logs under guidance.
• Site support: Help with site observations, photo records, snag lists and close-out packs (as required).

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, construction management, quantity surveying, or related field.
• Clear written and spoken English; confident contributor in meetings.
• Strong Microsoft Excel (formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation) and solid Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills (styles, tables, section formatting).
• Familiarity with project scheduling tools (for example, Microsoft Project or Primavera) is an advantage.
• Organised, detail-driven, and able to work across multiple deadlines.

Performance Indicators

• Timely, accurate trackers, minutes, and reports.
• Clean document control with reliable metadata and versioning.
• Well-structured spreadsheets and polished, compliant proposal inputs.
• Positive feedback from the project team and clients.

Career Path
Project Management Graduate Assistant Project Manager Project Manager Senior Project Manager / Project Director (performance-based progression).