Intern Project Manager

Job Description

Shape a sustainable tomorrow.

Do you want to join a team that asks questions and dares to see things differently?

We are AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. When you join us, you'll help create world-class sustainable solutions that connect people, data, and technology. We're transforming infrastructure and energy systems, growing partnerships with our clients, and bringing the most complex projects across the globe to life. Join us and engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Our global team of 36,000+ employees speak over 70 languages and represent 130 nationalities across six continents. Our work covers a variety of sectors, including transportation, infrastructure, environment, water, energy, defence, technology and aerospace.

On our Intern programme, you take the driver's seat in your career. Grow personally and professionally, guided by inspiring managers. Say yes to opportunities that spark your interest, knowing you'll have training and the support you need to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and feeling like you belong. Find out more about our global programme Different makes a difference.

Where you could work:

As an intern project manager, you’ll enjoy variety, working on large and small projects with the opportunity to explore different career pathways with exposure on a wide variety of schemes, in all sectors for both public and private clients. This includes new university campuses, commercial office developments, refurbishment of listed buildings and museums, large residential scheme, the list is endless!   We strive to build strong relationships by understanding the challenges our clients face, sharing their vision and helping them transform their visions into reality. Our cutting-edge independent advice and support enables our clients to turn bold ideas into reality and deliver their most important projects and programmes.

Our Project Managers are involved in some of the world’s most prestigious and complex projects, requiring meticulous planning to ensure successful delivery to our clients and stakeholders.

Your purpose:

• Assist in the delivery of projects from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with client objectives, project scope, and quality standards.
• Develop and manage detailed project programmes, ensuring alignment with key milestones and statutory approval timelines.
• Monitor project performance, proactively identifying and managing risks, issues, and changes through structured change control procedures, risk workshops, and the maintenance of comprehensive risk registers.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to ensure effective communication, collaboration, and smooth project delivery.
• Coordinate and facilitate client meetings and site visits, ensuring that all actions are accurately recorded, tracked, and implemented in a timely manner.
• Assist in preparing essential project documentation, including execution plans, schedules, budgets, and progress reports.
• Support contract and commercial administration activities.
• Learn and apply project management tools, techniques, and best practices, contributing to continuous improvement and personal growth.

What you can bring:

• On track to achieve a minimum of Level 8 or above in a Project Management related degree or any subject for those who can demonstrate commercial or technical acumen.
• A passion for working in a consultancy environment.
• Championing a culture where everyone belongs.
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions.
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team.
• Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable).
• Comfortable embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies.
• Commitment to spend a minimum of three days a week in the office or on client site (project dependent). Being together in person helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate your learning and development.

Training and development:

Our intern development programme is designed to give you an insight into many areas of work, and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie.

From day one, you'll work on real projects that offer scale and variety, collaborating with colleagues and creating meaningful impact on the world around us.

We're proud to have been an Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited employer since 2021. This means you'll be supported by a true learning and development organization dedicated to your future.

Our deadline for applications is Sunday, 4th January 2026.  However, as our intern development programmes are incredibly popular, we recommend that you apply early as some roles may close sooner.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Contractual (Fixed Term)

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.