Coordinator(Project)

Balfour Beatty plc; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Remote options

25 days annual leave

Pension plan

Volunteer leave

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is recruiting for a Coordinator (Projects) in Norwich with hybrid working. You will deliver project support, coordinate deliverables, maintain documentation, and help the alliance run smoothly.

You’ll coordinate administrative tasks, keep project trackers up to date, arrange and minuting meetings, and produce reports while seeking process improvements to boost delivery. Strong organisational and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Previous administrative experience, with an understanding of how effective project support contributes to successful delivery.
• Experience of organising meetings and taking accurate, effective minutes.
• Strong IT skills, with the ability to organise your own workload and support others.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to work effectively with different people across the team.
• A positive, proactive ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Good organisation and coordination skills.
• A willingness to learn, develop and broaden your skills.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team and contribute to its overall success.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and production of deliverables on a number of schemes within the portfolio of work.
• Maintain working knowledge of the Capital Delivery Process; produce and maintain a reference file for the team to refer to.
• Work with Document Control to ensure project files comply with the document management requirements.
• Coordinate DM1 – DM6 deliverables and ensure final documentation is produced on time and to agreed standards.
• Liaise with the PDM to document and ensure visibility of outstanding deliverables and proof of deliverables are accessible to the wider team.
• Undertake key administrative tasks including arranging and minuting meetings, keeping project trackers up to date, producing reports and coordinating communications amongst the team.
• Identify areas for improvement, suggest initiatives and, once agreed with the team, help implement them to improve outputs and promote outperformance.

Skills

Administrative experience

Meeting minutes

IT skills

Communication skills

Can-do attitude

Organization

Willingness to learn

Teamwork

Job description

About the role

Coordinator (Project) – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Norwich (Hybrid working available)

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the { (6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn } @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we progress through AMP8 – our most ambitious asset management period to date – we’re delivering nature-based and sustainable infrastructure, from wetlands to urban drainage schemes, setting new benchmarks for environmental performance.

What you'll be doing

As a Coordinator (Projects) you will be working within a designated team, initially playing to your strengths and experience to deliver within the team. As you grow accustomed to processes and ways of working within your specific team, you’ll begin to broaden your skills and exposure to develop yourself and provide the alliance with a more all-rounded project support facility to optimise our delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for the coordination and production of deliverables on a number of schemes within the portfolio of work.
• Maintain working knowledge of the Capital Delivery Process; produce and maintain a reference file for the team to refer to.
• Work with Document Control to ensure project files comply with the document management requirements.
• Coordinate DM1 – DM6 deliverables and ensure final documentation is produced on time and to agreed standards.
• Liaise with the PDM to document and ensure visibility of outstanding deliverables and proof of deliverables are accessible to the wider team.
• Undertake key administrative tasks including arranging and minuting meetings, keeping project trackers up to date, producing reports and coordinating communications amongst the team.
• Identify areas for improvement, suggest initiatives and, once agreed with the team, help implement them to improve outputs and promote outperformance.

Who we're looking for

To join the Delivery team and help provide consistent project administrative excellence, you’ll bring:

• Previous administrative experience, with an understanding of how effective project support contributes to successful delivery.
• Experience of organising meetings and taking accurate, effective minutes.
• Strong IT skills, with the ability to organise your own workload and support others.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to work effectively with different people across the team.
• A positive, proactive ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Good organisation and coordination skills.
• A willingness to learn, develop and broaden your skills.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team and contribute to its overall success.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• - Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• - 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• - Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• - Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

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