Assistant Project Manager
WSP
Assistant Project Manager
WSP
Plans and designs infrastructure projects
What if you could shape a career as unique as you?
What You’ll Do:
As part of WSP’s Project Delivery team, you will support project managers in delivering high-quality outcomes across renewable, transmission, and energy infrastructure projects, with a strong focus on project controls, reporting, and coordination.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment and is passionate about elevating project management as a core technical discipline. Your responsibilities will include:
• Support project planning and delivery, assisting Project Managers across development and
construction phases
• Maintain and track project schedules, deliverables, and key milestones (including stage
gates and hold points)
• Assist with cost control activities, including forecasting, invoicing, budget tracking, and
variance analysis
• Support change management processes, including variations, claims tracking, and
documentation
• Prepare and maintain project reporting, including progress reports, dashboards, and risk
registers
• Coordinate across multidisciplinary teams (designers, contractors, and clients) to ensure
alignment on scope and deliverables
• Support design management activities, including document control, design reviews, and
interface tracking
• Contribute to risk and issue management, ensuring risks are tracked, escalated, and
mitigated
• Support proposal preparation and bid submissions where required
• Drive consistency in project processes, templates, and reporting standards
What we will love about:
• A degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related
discipline
• 2–6 years’ experience in project coordination, project controls, or assistant PM roles
(ideally in energy, infrastructure, or consulting)
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle and delivery processes
• Experience with project controls functions (cost, schedule, reporting, risk tracking)
• Familiarity with tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Excel (advanced), or similar
reporting tools
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and ability to manage competing
priorities
• Effective communication skills and ability to work across distributed/global teams
• Exposure to transmission, renewables, or infrastructure projects is desirable
• Build core project management and controls capability on major international energy
projects
• Work closely with senior PMs across Australia and global teams
• Gain exposure to end-to-end delivery of utility-scale renewable and network projects
• Progress into Project Manager or specialist Project Controls roles
What we will love about:
• A degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related
discipline
• 2–6 years’ experience in project coordination, project controls, or assistant PM roles
(ideally in energy, infrastructure, or consulting)
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle and delivery processes
• Experience with project controls functions (cost, schedule, reporting, risk tracking)
• Familiarity with tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Excel (advanced), or similar
reporting tools
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and ability to manage competing
priorities
• Effective communication skills and ability to work across distributed/global teams
• Exposure to transmission, renewables, or infrastructure projects is desirable
• Build core project management and controls capability on major international energy
projects
• Work closely with senior PMs across Australia and global teams
• Gain exposure to end-to-end delivery of utility-scale renewable and network projects
• Progress into Project Manager or specialist Project Controls roles
What You’ll Do:
As part of WSP’s Project Delivery team, you will support project managers in delivering high-quality outcomes across renewable, transmission, and energy infrastructure projects, with a strong focus on project controls, reporting, and coordination.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment and is passionate about elevating project management as a core technical discipline. Your responsibilities will include:
• Support project planning and delivery, assisting Project Managers across development and
construction phases
• Maintain and track project schedules, deliverables, and key milestones (including stage
gates and hold points)
• Assist with cost control activities, including forecasting, invoicing, budget tracking, and
variance analysis
• Support change management processes, including variations, claims tracking, and
documentation
• Prepare and maintain project reporting, including progress reports, dashboards, and risk
registers
• Coordinate across multidisciplinary teams (designers, contractors, and clients) to ensure
alignment on scope and deliverables
• Support design management activities, including document control, design reviews, and
interface tracking
• Contribute to risk and issue management, ensuring risks are tracked, escalated, and
mitigated
• Support proposal preparation and bid submissions where required
• Drive consistency in project processes, templates, and reporting standards.
WSP is an engineering and science consultancy that helps governments and businesses plan, design, and manage infrastructure. Its teams work on transport networks, buildings, water systems, power facilities, and environmental projects, combining engineers with scientists, planners, and technical advisers. Services include feasibility studies, detailed design, environmental assessments, and project management, with specialists supporting assets through construction and operation. Clients pay through contracts priced by staff time, agreed project fees, or a share of project costs. Genivar reorganized as WSP Global in 2014, and the group is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec.
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