Project Coordinator

Morson Edge; Fen Ditton; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

End-to-end exposure across a complex W

Cross-functional IPT collaboration

Professional development opportunities

Exposure to ERP and project management

Job summary

Marshall Land Systems, based in Cambridge, seeks a proactive Project Coordinator to support the PMO and programme governance. You will coordinate activities, manage action trackers, and assist in delivering engineering projects with cross-functional teams across planning, procurement and finance.

You will work in a hybrid setup 3–4 days a week and gain hands-on exposure to ERP systems, budgeting and project controls in a complex manufacturing environment. BPSS clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience as a project coordinator, business/executive assistant, or related roles within engineering contexts.
• Strong ability to plan, control and deliver work packages in a project setting.
• Experience with budgeting and delivering measurable results.
• Familiarity with configuration management, change management or risk management advantageous.
• Experience with ERP, Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Office 365.

Responsibilities

• Assist and coordinate in the delivery activities and governance processes across the programme team.
• Assist and coordinate in the delivery and acceptance of finished products, supported by the cross-functional programme team.
• Support governance processes with planning and controls, including baseline and performance measures.
• Coordinate development trials, test assets, equipment and personnel with project and engineering management.
• Own project administration artefacts, such as action trackers and delivery databases, and assist in project financial data.
• Raising non-system purchase requisitions for long lead items and subcontract services.
• Support the programme communication plan execution, including team communications and collateral.

Skills

Project coordination

Planning

Budgeting

Data analysis

Stakeholder mgmt

ERP systems

MS Project

SharePoint

MS Office 365

Tools

MS Project

SharePoint

MS Office 365

ERP systems

Job description

PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING: Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work suitable candidates will be baseline level (BPSS) clearable or eligible for this level of clearance

Overview

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you will be a key member of the Programme Management Office (PMO), supporting the coordination and delivery of activities across the programme team.

Working within a matrix organisation, you will collaborate with colleagues across engineering, procurement, supply chain, production, finance and project management to help ensure projects are effectively coordinated and delivered.

This is an opportunity to gain broad exposure to the full project lifecycle within a complex engineering and manufacturing environment.

You will have the opportunity to take ownership of project coordination activities, work with a wide range of stakeholders and develop your project management capability while contributing directly to successful programme delivery.

Your responsibilities in this role include

• Assist and coordinate in the delivery activities and governance processes across the programme team
• Assist and coordinate in the delivery and acceptance of finished products, supported by the cross-functional programme team
• In collaboration with Planning and Controls, support the efficient operation of governance processes, such as maintenance of the programme baseline and performance measures.
• In collaboration with project and engineering management, support arrangements for development trials, including coordination of test assets, equipment and personnel.
• Ownership of Project administration artefacts such as action trackers, Project delivery databases and support to the management accounting team in the project financial data.
• Raising non-system purchase requisitions such as for long lead items and subcontract services, supporting successful delivery from external partners where appropriate.
• Support to the programme communication plan execution, including preparation of team communications and presentation collateral.

Apply if you have most of the following

• Experience as a project coordinator, business/executive assistant, operations analyst, business analyst, project controller, planner or similar, within the context of engineering and production.
• A good working knowledge of the Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint is essential, with ability to derive meaning from data.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, control and deliver work packages within a project setting.
• Experience of budgeting, developing plans and delivering tangible results that have measurable outcomes.
• Understanding of configuration management, change management and/or risk management are advantageous.
• Working knowledge of project management and collaboration toolsets such as ERP systems, Microsoft Project, Sharepoint and Microsoft Office/365.

Additional local needs

Hybrid role, Cambridge based 3-4 days a week

Successful candidate will need to complete a successful BPSS check

Benefits of this role include

• Opportunity to play a key role in project coordination and programme delivery, with end-to-end exposure across a complex engineering and manufacturing environment
• Work closely with Senior Project Managers and cross-functional Integrated Project Teams (IPTs) across engineering, procurement, supply chain, production and finance
• Gain hands‑on experience in project governance, controls, financial management, risk, change and configuration management
• Ownership of project coordination activities, action tracking, delivery information and project artefacts, with exposure to ERP and project management systems
• Strong opportunity for professional development and progression towards Project Manager, Senior Project Coordinator, Project Controls or wider Programme Management roles

Further Details

Salary: £30K

Address: Marshall Land Systems Cambridge City Airport Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8RX

ly end of year (potentially for extension / permanent prospects for right candidate)

Hours: 7.15am - 3.45pm Monday to Thursday with a half day finish on Friday's

About Marshall's

Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world. From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands