About us

At VolkerWessels UK people come first. Joining us means joining one of the UK's largest multidisciplinary engineering and construction contractors, delivering a vast breadth of innovative projects, and offering endless opportunities to grow.

We have an opportunity for a PMO Co-Ordinator to join our team.

The role

We are looking for a dedicated individual to join VolkerWessels UK in the PMO as a PMO Coordinator. The main responsibilities are to support the PMO and ICT by overseeing administrative tasks, including capturing minutes and actions, communicating with stakeholders and providing support for the governance of the VW Portfolio and ICT Roadmap. They will ensure that the project management framework is adhered too and a consistent approach to activities.

Key relationships

Working with the operational and support teams to promote and ensure adherence to VolkerWessels UK Governance framework and Delivery Methodology.

Engage with the Project Management team to promote consistency across the portfolio to enable standardise reporting and governance steps can be followed.

Supporting the Head of PMO. Portfolio Manager, Project Sponsors, ICT Leads and Business Owners in undertaking administrative tasks including capturing minutes and actions, resource scheduling, maintaining Project Plans and budget tracking.Key accountabilities

Responsibility for the successful delivery of tasks assigned to them, while ensuring they meet VW standards including delivery of high-quality outputs.

Support the PMO and ICT Team as well as influencing them to take positive action and accountability.

Produce regular quality Project reporting and ensuring they are of a high quality and meet the audience needs.

Responsible for adherence to VolkerWessels approach by the project teams including alignment to the delivery Methodology.

Maintain the Change Control process and ensure policy guidelines and rules are maintained.

Build and maintain relationship with supporting business and IT teams.

Collaborating with other department leaders to capture, prioritise and assign resources to support project delivery.

Support the updates of Project budgets, including actuals, forecast and capitalisation spend.Skills & experience

Prince 2 Foundation, Practitioner or similar project management qualification would be an advantage.

2-3 years' experience in a Coordinator or Administrator position.

Experience in using Microsoft Project or other Project management tools.

Key competencies / capabilities

Good skills in M365 suite of solutions including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.

Ability to plan and organise own workload, while working under pressure to strict deadlines.

Excellent written and oral communication skills, a confident communicator, with the ability to tailor communication methods to a diverse audience.

Great organisational and technical skills.

Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills as well as a high levels of personal integrity and honesty.

Some experience in managing finances including forecasting, actuals and providing forecasts.

Good attention to detail and ability to deliver accurate, and high-quality work.

Self-motivated and can demonstrate drive for continuous improvement. Adaptable and flexible approach to work.

Ability to be trusted when dealing with sensitive and confidential information.

A pragmatic approach to problem solving, combined with a solid understanding of root-cause analysis.

Location

Hoddesdon