Project Coordinator

Job Role : Project Coordinator

Contract : 12 Months

Location :

Rate: 30-33 GBP Per Hour Inside IR35 through Umbrella

This position is the role of a seasoned project management professional. The successful candidate will support projects that have substantial R&D value, are moderate to complex in nature, and will require limited supervision.

Background Experience

Evidence of experience in Program Coordination, Information Technology, Engineering, project management or NPI

Extensive knowledge of Project Management software

Experience of facilitating project planning sessions

A college or University degree or evidence of progressively responsible job-related experience in Program Coordination, Information Technology, Engineering, project management or NPI

Proven experience with project management concepts, including project charters, scheduling and planning projects, and successful on-time delivery.

Strong project management skills, indirect leadership skills, excellent communication skills, ability to multitask effectively, strong analytical and organizational skills.

Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or to influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.

Will possess extensive knowledge of project management software (MS Project experience desirable) MS Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Web Publishing tools.

Specific work activities will include the following:

•Deliver planning meetings for smaller projects with little or no requirement for supervision. The individual must possess the ability to work with a range of functional areas to develop a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) and translate the WBS into credible project and program plans while providing leadership in understanding and following program and project management standard processes.

Develop and produce program and/or project management schedules in Microsoft Project using GPMUK tools and processes. The individual will capture all activity information, identify relationships between activities, and recommend actions to resolve schedule conflicts.

Coordinate with Program Leads to schedule and support program control meetings & compression sessions and make schedule changes/corrections during those meetings as required. This will include analysis of data from schedule updates to explain the consequences of any changes and, working with project team members to resolve logic errors, explains changes due to updates, and recommends actions to resolve schedule problems.

Create and maintain issues/action logs, risk registers/FMEAs, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, program cost tracking and provide general workshop planning, execution, and follow-up assistance.

Works daily with project team members to advocate the importance of robust planning to be successful in implementing on time, on cost, and to the required quality targets. Provides administrative planning and follow-up for program team, steering committee, and governance review meetings

Train other Program Coordinators and project teams in the program management processes and software. May create report packages and communicate or post program or project status, may also include maintenance of a program web site.

Exceptional Candidates will also demonstrate

• Experience of project resource loading and forecasts, cost loading and forecasts, scope management, and other project management tools including risk management.,

• Strong interpersonal skills including team leadership, adaptive communication skills, and strong analytical and organizational skills.

• A recognized Project Management qualification such as Prince 2, PMP, or equivalent.

• Knowledge of company policies and processes, and company products and customers.

• Previous Six Sigma experience.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Peterborough, UK.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position - any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the successful candidate.

This position might require up to 10-15% travel to other Client facilities in the UK.

Employee benefit details

Our goal is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a competitive total rewards package along with the potential of an annual bonus.