Balfour Beatty plc
Project Coordinator
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About The Role
Location: Raynesway, Derby
Balfour Beatty is recruiting for a Project Coordinator to join our Fire Services team.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organised and proactive individual who enjoys coordinating projects, collaborating with a range of stakeholders and supporting the successful delivery of essential fire safety services. You'll play a key role in ensuring works are planned, delivered and completed safely, efficiently and to the highest standards, helping to protect people, properties and critical infrastructure.
What you'll be doing
As a Project Coordinator, you'll support the safe, compliant and efficient delivery of Fire Services activities by:
- Coordinating planned maintenance, remedial works, small works and reactive call-outs.
- Managing and maintaining maintenance schedules and trackers to ensure activities are completed on time.
- Supporting resource planning and scheduling to maximise operational efficiency.
- Working closely with engineers and stakeholders to ensure seamless planning and mobilisation of works.
- Coordinating materials, equipment and specialist resources to meet programme requirements.
- Supporting responses to reactive breakdowns and service disruptions.
- Maintaining accurate operational records, reports and documentation.
- Acting as a key point of contact for customers, suppliers and operational teams.
- Keeping stakeholders informed on planned works, progress updates and issue resolution.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery and operational performance.
Who we're looking for
- Highly organised with excellent planning and coordination skills.
- Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- A strong communicator with a professional, customer-focused approach.
- Detail-oriented and committed to maintaining accurate records.
- Collaborative and confident in building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Teams and Outlook.
- Passionate about safety, quality and continuous improvement.
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Desirable Experience
While not essential, we'd love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience in operations coordination, scheduling or project support.
- Experience within Fire Services, Facilities Management, Construction or Engineering environments.
- An understanding of maintenance planning, reactive works coordination or service delivery.
- Experience working in a customer-facing or stakeholder-focused role.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Asset & Technology Solutions provides innovative, safe and sustainable solutions to the Balfour Beatty projects across the UK. Our wide range of equipment and services includes HGV’s, tower and crawler cranes, piling equipment, CCTV and security services, survey services and drones, suction excavators, sweepers, modular accommodation and much more.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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