Onsite Coordinator

PerkinElmer; Slough; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

PerkinElmer is seeking an Onsite Coordinator to join the Slough site (moving to Windlesham, Surrey in 2027). You’ll work within a small onsite team, coordinating service activity, maintaining schedules for equipment maintenance, and ensuring clear communication with customers and vendors.

You'll collaborate with another Site Coordinator and coordinate with engineers and suppliers to ensure smooth daily operations, accuracy of work orders, and timely service delivery in a customer-focused

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating service activities in a busy environment.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to manage multiple moving parts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate service activity as part of a team.
• Schedule and manage equipment maintenance from preventive to corrective work.
• Track work orders and keep statuses accurate and up to date.
• Respond to emails, calls, and system requests ensuring timely customer experience.
• Communicate with customers, engineers, and vendors to reduce duplication.

Skills

Teamwork

Organisation

Communication

Customer focus

Email communication

English proficiency

Tools

MS Excel

Scheduling systems

CRM software

Job description

When joining PerkinElmer, you select an experienced and trusted leader in scientific solutions, with the support of a global service network and distribution centers, providing the right solution, at the right time, to meet critical customer needs. With over an 80+ year legacy of advancing science and a mission of innovating for a healthier world, our dedicated team collaborates closely with commercial, government, academic and healthcare customers to deliver our broad portfolio of analytical solutions, and OneSource services.

Job Title

Onsite Coordinator

Location(s)

UCB Celltech (UK) - Customer Site

Job Description

Are you someone who enjoys bringing structure to busy environments, coordinating activity, and helping a team deliver smoothly and efficiently? Do you thrive in a role where communication, organisation, and collaboration truly matter? If you take pride in being reliable, proactive, and people-focused, this Site Coordinator role could be a great fit. We’re looking for a Site Coordinator/Planner to work as part of a small, collaborative onsite team, supporting one of our key OneSource accounts. You will work closely with another Site Coordinator and the rest of our on‑site team, sharing responsibilities and helping ensure that service operations run seamlessly each day. Please note this role will be based at our customer site in Slough, but in 2027 they will be relocating to Windlesham, Surrey.

What you’ll do:

• Coordinate service activity as part of a team
• Work jointly with our other Site Coordinator to schedule and manage all equipment maintenance – from preventive to corrective work.
• Share responsibility for tracking work orders in our systems, ensuring statuses are kept accurate and up to date.
• Respond to emails, calls, and system requests, aligning with the team to ensure a consistent and timely customer experience.
• Support strong communication across the site
• Partner with your fellow Site Coordinator to communicate with customers, engineers, and vendors – ensuring clear, aligned messaging and reducing duplication.
• Help manage updates, handovers, and service timelines so everyone on site has the information they need.
• Provide support during vendor visits, including coordination, documentation checks, and escorting responsibilities when required.
• Share vendor management and procurement tasks
• Jointly handle vendor coordination — requesting quotes, scheduling activity, following up on outstanding work, and ensuring documentation is complete.
• Confidently challenge vendors when needed.
• Assist with raising purchase requisitions and purchase orders, working with your teammate to split and organise procurement tasks efficiently, when required.
• Maintain accurate equipment and service records
• Collaborate with the team to track equipment adds, changes, and removals across customer and internal systems.
• Ensure service entitlement, coverage, and documentation are accurate and complete.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement Work with your fellow Site Coordinator and site team to identify workflow improvements and enhance the customer experience.
• Share insights, flag potential issues early, and help drive resolutions collaboratively.
• Participate as an active member of a supportive and coordinated service team.

What we’re looking for

• Team-oriented and collaborative, with the ability to share responsibilities, communicate openly, and support colleagues.
• Highly organised, able to manage multiple moving parts while maintaining accurate records.
• Strong communicator, comfortable engaging with customers, engineers, and vendors.
• Proactive and reliable, with a problem‑solving approach and a focus on service quality.
• Customer-focused, ensuring every interaction is professional, clear, and helpful.
• Previous experience in service coordination, planning, scheduling, laboratory support, or a similar operational role.
• Experience using service management or scheduling systems.
• Working knowledge of equipment service processes within technical or regulated environments.
• Strong MS Office skills, particularly in Excel.
• Confident written and spoken English.
• Valid driving license preferred.
• Ability to write clear, professional emails and communicate effectively with customers, vendors and internal teams.

Why join us?

Be part of a collaborative onsite team that supports each other and works together daily. Build strong relationships with customers, vendors, and internal service teams. Develop valuable skills in service coordination, vendor management, and operational delivery. Work in an environment that values teamwork, quality, and continuous improvement. Make a real difference by ensuring service operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Are you ready to help improve the lives of millions of people and create a healthier world? When you work at PerkinElmer, that’s exactly what you’ll do. From our dedicated scientists and world‑class operations employees to our innovative R&D professionals and committed sales and service groups, we’re a unique team of 5,000+ global colleagues who come to work every day knowing we’re making a difference. Through innovation, collaboration, and believing in our mission, we strive to create an inspiring and inclusive culture for our employees, so that they can be their best and, together, create a better tomorrow. Join us today.