Project Coordinator

坯潤; Stockton-on-Tees; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting an experienced Project Coordinator to support our project team based at Stockton office. This role is a hybrid working with the expectation of working 3 days from our site office.

Responsibilities

The Role

You will create delivery excellence across the assigned projects, provide certainty and confidence to the customer/project sponsor, and robust control of project scope, schedule, cost and risk. This role will support the management of personnel CAFs, ensuring project compliance and a focal point for imperium on active projects.

Development in this role has the potential to lead a defined small project or subset of a larger project, managing scope, cost, schedule and risk, managing change and ensuring appropriate reporting and governance is in place.

Supports the project team by overseeing and monitoring project progress according to agreed measures and organizational procedures, recommending corrective action where necessary. Responsible for ensuring that the scope is defined and understood, schedule is adhered to, cost/budget targets are met and for managing safety and risk. Require knowledge and experience of the technical/functional area being managed and an awareness of the business issues.

This role will also be responsible for the coordination of the Stockton Office work share with our overseas execution centre.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

The Process & Energy is part of the business, which sits in the Operations team, offering a wide range of opportunities which will allow you to develop your skills across a portfolio of onshore projects in different sectors. Our current portfolio includes green hydrogen and fuel switching, as well as supporting local clients with energy transition. Additionally, we work on UK refineries, petrochemical facilities, fine chemicals and pharmaceutical facilities. We have number of clients who we are working with to design their pilot plants to test exciting new technologies, with a view to partnering with them as they move to design and build full scale commercial facilities.

We have some of the best engineers in the UK, and we have high expectations on the performance of the project teams. Come and join us and be part of the team at this exciting time.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across renewables and emerging energy sectors
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections; join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession

Project Delivery

• Defines/designs activities, starting from existing solutions
• Provides the interface and maintains a confident relationship with other contributors to the project
• Contributes to setting project evaluation parameters
• Provide project execution coordination including management of master document registers, competence assessments, imperium interface, document management and project reporting
• Interacts with the project sponsor/customer as part of routine delivery
• Able to review and report project or interface status to senior management and/or the sponsor/customer
• Solves problems requiring investigation and interpretation
• Assists in preparation for kick off meetings and work initiation processes
• Attends customer meetings and assists with determination of project requirements
• Assists in the drafting and issuance of project proposals, tenders, budgets, cash flow, plans, procedures and preliminary schedules
• Prepares project organization charts
• Participates in progress/site/closeout meetings as appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
• Tracks the progress and quality of work being performed across projects, driving consistency and repeatability- assuring outputs meet quality standards and capturing lessons learned
• Uses project scheduling and control tools to monitor project plans, work hours, budgets and expenditures
• Effectively and accurately communicates relevant project information to the customer and project team
• Keeps the Project Sponsor/Customer and other stakeholders informed about project status and issues that may impact customer relations
• Anticipates and takes pre-emptive action to address potential conflict situations that may impact on project delivery

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected

• Typically requires a University degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent combination of qualifications and experience
• An understanding of metrics and data collection and analysis methods as well as business awareness and ability to develop relationships across the project team to facilitate data collection.
• Basic knowledge and experience of Project Success and Benefits Management on small, standard projects.
• Basic knowledge and experience of stakeholder and requirements management
• Awareness of project initiation processes and tools.
• Awareness of national and international quality assurance standards.
• Knowledge of the basic principles of Work Breakdown Structures. Awareness of task logic and durations in design, construction or other relevant activities.
• Awareness of the sources of change on projects and ability to identify change
• Experienced in the document control/management environment on standard projects and familiar with the use of electronic document management systems.
• Some knowledge of the setting and monitoring of KPIs and value engineering tasks supporting project performance.
• Knowledge of operational handover and close-out activities and the importance of meeting the timescales of close-out activities.
• Knowledge of the project management system and reporting activities and the ability to produce relevant project management reports.
• Good knowledge of company standards and practices relating to design safety matters.
• Good team leadership and analytical skills; and the ability to influence and communicate at all levels are essential.
• Well-developed scheduling and organisational skills.

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.