Project Coordinator

Essex Highways; Crewe; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading highways service provider in the United Kingdom seeks a Project Coordinator to enhance project delivery across teams. In this role, you will support project setup, financial integrity, and drive accurate forecasting. The ideal candidate is proficient in the MS Office suite, particularly Excel, and has experience with scheduling tools such as MS Project. This position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Sick Pay

Competitive salary

Opportunity to purchase extra leave

Discounts through the RJ Rewards app

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel.
• Experience with scheduling tools, including MS Project.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support project delivery by enhancing delivery behaviours.
• Ensure accurate project setup and financial integrity.
• Drive financial forecasting and reporting.

Skills

MS Office proficiency

Scheduling tools like MS Project

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Education

Project management qualifications or training

Tools

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

Overview

As a key member of our project coordination team, you will play an essential role in strengthening how we deliver projects across the organisation. Working closely with senior management, commissioning specialists, engineers, and finance teams, you’ll help ensure projects are set up for success from day one. You’ll maintain accurate budgets and schedules, uphold strong commercial and administrative standards, and contribute to improving the reliability of our project reporting.

This role also offers the opportunity to support process improvements, provide cross‑team cover when needed, and take on a variety of ad‑hoc tasks that help keep our portfolio running smoothly.

Responsibilities

• Support project delivery and governance by working across teams and with Senior Management to enhance delivery behaviours, assist with portfolio management, and manage the Design Team’s Early Warning process.
• Ensure accurate project setup, close‑out, and financial integrity by working with the Commissioning Team and Management Accountants, maintaining compliance with commercial and administrative guidelines, auditing cost codes, and supporting finance clinics and cost‑code education.
• Drive accurate financial forecasting and reporting, including preparing forecasts for the new financial year, supporting Design Team forecasting needs, and producing unified monthly dashboards for internal and client use.
• Improve programme tracking and scheduling by upgrading programme spreadsheets, integrating with the RJ Hub for accurate spend forecasting, reviewing project schedules for accuracy and standardisation, and delivering training where required.
• Provide operational and cross‑team support including covering Commissioning Team duties, supporting task owners to prevent unapproved spend, and carrying out additional ad‑hoc responsibilities as required.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in the MS Office suite, especially Excel, with the ability to create, manage, and maintain complex spreadsheets for financial monitoring and modelling.
• Experience using scheduling tools such as MS Project, including the ability to migrate data between systems and support programme‑related processes.
• Proven analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills, with the capability to help coordinate and control a portfolio of projects (e.g., Design, Road Safety, Traffic).
• Demonstrated experience in managing the financial and programme aspects of projects or operational processes (desirable).
• Relevant project management qualifications or training (desirable), along with the confidence to set up new systems or tools as needed.

Benefits

• Sick Pay
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
• A variety of discounts through the “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc.
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees.

For further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502, or e‑mail [e-mail]. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly. We ask agencies to refrain from contacting anyone with regards to speculative CVs or offering to assist with our vacancies. Thank you.