Project Support Officer

SOCOTEC UK Limited; Swillington; Hybrid; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental services provider in the UK is seeking a Project Support Coordinator to ensure the successful delivery of projects. This hybrid role allows for remote work with occasional office visits. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational skills, full computer literacy, and the ability to manage multiple tasks. A competitive salary of £31,500 per year is offered, along with various employee benefits including holidays and pension enhancements.

Benefits

25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more

Electric car scheme

Employee recognition schemes

Enhanced company pension

Employee assistance programmes

Qualifications

• Right to work in the UK.
• Experience with project management tools is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Updating project trackers and ensuring all permits are submitted.
• Assisting with the creation and maintenance of project plans.
• Supporting Project Managers with day-to-day tasks.
• Preparing reports and ensuring documentation meets standards.
• Maintaining project libraries and filing systems.

Skills

Strong organisational and time-management skills

Full computer literacy

Clear and confident communication skills

Ability to manage multiple tasks/projects

Flexible, proactive, detail-focused approach

Job description

Project Support Coordinator

Join our Flow Monitoring Operations Team as a Project Support Coordinator professional and play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of our projects. This hybrid role is predominantly remote, with the option to work from our Leeds office when you prefer and when needed. If you’re organised, proactive and ready to make a real impact, this position offers an excellent opportunity to support project performance across the business.

Responsibilities

The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

• Updating project trackers and ensuring all permits are submitted, followed up and closed
• Assisting with the creation and maintenance of project plans
• Supporting Project Managers with day-to-day logistics, appointment scheduling and ordering supplies
• Preparing reports and ensuring documentation meets company standards
• Maintaining project libraries, filing systems and reporting structures
• Managing risk and issue logs, as well as change control records
• Drafting Method Statements and Risk Assessments
• Supporting communication between project teams
• Carrying out additional administrative tasks as required

Qualifications

• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• The ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously
• Full computer literacy, including Word, Excel, email and web-based systems
• Clear and confident communication skills
• A flexible, proactive and detail-focused approach to work
• Right to work in the UK
• Confidence communicating with clients and the public when required

Desirable

• Technical or industry knowledge in environmental or water services
• Experience with Confined Space permitted operations
• Experience working with subcontractors, such as traffic management providers
• Familiarity with site-based teams or field operations

About SOCOTEC Flow & Water Quality Monitoring

We provide market leading environmental data collection and monitoring services. Established over 30 years ago Flow & Water Quality Monitoring give their clients peace of mind in supporting them to reduce environmental risks and improving the quality of their natural environment. Our customers include large blue-chip consultancies and water companies.

We are an ambitious team who are focused on growth, putting our customers at the heart of what we do, and we live our values of happy people, happy customers, working safely and being successful. Our culture is can-do, fun and where everyone has a part to play and a voice.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a salary of £31,500 per year, which can increase as you develop and grow in the role, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension.

SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC?

Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We have several business streams that provides an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification and advisory services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent.

At SOCOTEC, we believe that a driven, inspired and challenged team is the key to success. We promote inclusivity, encourage individuality and have a zero-tolerance policy to discrimination, with the aim that every single member of our team will thrive both in and out of the workplace.

We invest in our people. We push you to grow and we want you to progress. We believe in continued development and the pursuit of ambition. Our open and friendly office space promotes a culture of teamwork and provides the opportunity to ask, listen and learn from those around you. With a young, dynamic and exciting workplace, we are constantly striving, as a team, to develop and succeed.

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.