Project Coordinator

**Project Coordinator / Technical Coordinator**

**Salary: up to £35k per year + benefits**

**Location: Stevenage Area (WFH options available)**

**Hours: Monday to Friday - 37.5hrs per week**

**Excellent opportunity to progress with an exciting company**

**The Opportunity**

The role is to provide a focal point of contact for new and existing customers whilst being responsible for submitting accurate, feasible and compliant bids for work which reflect customer requirements.

This role aims to secure a high rate of bid success and contributes to final profit margins on each completed project. This role takes successful bids and works with technically qualified staff or contractors to complete technical design, legal searches and purchase of long lead items before handing off project to delivery team.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Attend post-award project handovers from the tendering team, accepting responsibility for the project going into pre-construction, understanding the commercial and design requirements
- Issuing RFIs to customers in order to obtain all required project specific information to enable the pre-construction design process to commence
- Instructing and coordinating designs throughout the pre-construction program - designs will vary from electrical ICP, NICEIC or civils designs
- Reviewing designs received, ensuring they are feasible, designed as instructed and commercially viable against the original budget for the scheme, prior to submission to the customer for comment
- Liaising with the design teams and DNOs/IDNOs in order to progress the project through pre-construction
- Coordination of the design approval process, assisting where required to make the process as smooth as possible
- Attend client meetings as and when required
- Provide updates to internal and external stakeholders on how the project is progressing through the pre-construction program, identifying any risks
- Assist the Project Managers with pre-construction and construction design queries/changes
- Instructing design variations as required and assisting with completing the commercial variations where required
- Liaise and coordinate any legal consents required for works relating to the projects, such as obtaining wayleaves or easements for new apparatus to be installed
- Responsible for updating trackers and project folders, superseding old design revisions and communicating any changes to all key stakeholders
- Managing the process in line with the delivery dates

**Knowledge Required**
- Knowledge and understanding of customer service and impact on business performance
- Knowledge and understanding of continuous improvement within new and existing processes
- Thorough understanding of the ICP industry, including DNO and IDNO processes and the benefits of working with IDNOs
- Understanding of DNO/IDNO requirements for electrical installations up to 11KV
- An understanding of NRSWA (New Roads and Streetworks Act)
- Knowledge of design and pre-construction processes.

**Skills and Abilities**
- Must be very well organised and be able to manage multiple projects/varying workloads
- Ability to adapt and react positively to change, coming into a fast-growing business
- Ability to use Microsoft packages, including Word and PowerPoint
- A team player with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation
- Keen eye for detail, having a methodical approach to each task
- Great communication skills, both written and verbal

**Experience/Qualifications**
- Experience within the ICP industry (electrical)
- Experience within customer facing environments
- Experience working within a similar role of design/technical coordinator within the construction industry
- Experience updating project trackers
- Experience compiling project reports to be issued to internal and external stakeholders

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a successful organisation with bold and ambitious plans for the future which will see them deliver projects at the forefront of a greener future for everyone.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £35,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free or subsidised travel
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Buntingford: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Buntingford