Contract: Cheshire East Highways
Location: Crewe
Contract Type: Permanent
As a Project Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the successful delivery of our Design team programme. Working closely with Project Managers, finance teams and client stakeholders, you’ll help coordinate project budgets, schedules and reporting, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and accurately. This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and proactive individual who enjoys working across multiple teams and contributing to the successful delivery of infrastructure projects.
The Role
In this role, you will provide coordination and administrative support across a diverse portfolio of design projects, helping to maintain visibility of current and future work programmes and supporting effective project governance. Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting Project Managers with project setup, monitoring and close-down activities.
- Managing and maintaining project budgets, schedules and performance reporting.
- Coordinating project information and responses through the CEMAR contract management system.
- Managing shared team inboxes and ensuring timely communication with stakeholders.
- Working closely with finance, commercial and commissioning teams to ensure accurate project reporting.
- Maintaining programme dashboards and ensuring consistent, reliable data across the portfolio.
- Supporting project reviews, finance clinics and portfolio management activities.
- Assisting with process improvements and promoting best practice across project delivery.
- Building positive relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
- Providing general project coordination and administrative support as required.
About You
We’re looking for a highly organised and detail-oriented individual who enjoys working collaboratively and takes pride in delivering accurate, high-quality work. You will ideally bring:
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
- Experience of working with project, contract or programme management systems such as CEMAR.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and report on project and financial data.
- Experience supporting budget tracking, forecasting or financial reporting activities.
- Effective communication skills and confidence working with a range of stakeholders.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- The ability to provide guidance and support to colleagues on processes and systems.
- A collaborative mindset and commitment to delivering excellent customer service.
- Previous experience in a project coordination, programme support or similar role.
Benefits
At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.
Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.
In return for your hard work you will receive:
- Sick Pay
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- A variety of discounts through our “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. As part of this commitment, we proudly support the Armed Forces Community by identifying roles for which we can offer a guaranteed interview to service leavers, veterans, reservists, cadet force adult volunteers, and military spouses/partners who meet the essential criteria for the position.
If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0330 311 2502 or e-mail them on [email protected]. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.
Work Location: In person
