Project Coordinator
Summary: The Project Coordinator role at KBR involves supporting Technical Project Managers in planning, RAID management, and project governance for a complex 8-month assignment. The position requires strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple critical paths while adopting a junior Project Manager role as the program progresses. The role is remote and offers competitive hourly pay, with a focus on collaboration and effective communication with stakeholders. Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Update detailed plan and may be required to replan or add to plan under direction of Technical Project Managers.
- Support Technical PMs with plan management, including planning and re-planning of all WBS/PBS elements, smoothing and float management, deconfliction, critical path burn-down and reporting, task progress updating and reporting.
- Ensure all Products defined in the plan are managed per the configuration management and change management processes, coordinating and collating review cycles with correct stakeholders to meet plan dates.
- Shadow Technical PMs at all internal standups, sprint ceremonies and checkpoints, deputising if/when necessary.
- Ensure the KANBAN boards are being used correctly by all task-based resources to ensure standups are efficient and effective.
- Collate internal progress reporting and input on any agreed external progress reporting the Senior Transition Manager deems required.
- Update and maintain internal RAID log, including capture, update and any governance required to manage, maintain and report.
- Manage Quality Gateway, including preparing the gateway assessments and managing the gateway governance meetings, assessment issue and mitigations.
- Be responsible for minute taking at internal governance, maintenance of action logs, and may be asked to support governance with client and/or incoming suppliers.
Key Skills:
- Experience working in a Programme environment, preferably in a PMO function or reporting to a Project Manager.
- Supply-side project management, including change management, RAID management and plan management.
- Excellent writing skills for report writing and managing information for reporting purposes.
- Public sector business oriented, with experience working with non-technical client stakeholders.
- Ability to build good delivery relationships with outside resources (clients, suppliers) to ensure mutual success.
- Experience working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates.
Salary (Rate): £34 per hour
City: Leatherhead
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR who are a leading global engineering, construction, and services company.KBR support the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents. Serving their customers through diverse business units, KBR offer challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.We are seeking a Project Coordinator for a 8-month assignment, based in Leatherhead, SurreyOn OfferCompetitive hourly pay rateOutside IR35 work engagementRemote working NB. We can only consider candidates with the right to live and work in the UK
Purpose of the RoleWe are seeking an articulate, driven, organised and meticulous Project Coordinator whose strengths are in planning, RAID management, project governance support and supporting multiple parallel critical paths, and who can adopt a more junior Project Manager role as the Programme progresses to develop their career
Key Responsibilities
- Ppdate detailed plan and under direction of Technical Project Managers may be required to replan or add to plan.
- Support Technical PMs with plan management, including planning and re-planning of all WBS/PBS elements, smoothing and float management, deconfliction, critical path burn-down and reporting, task progress updating and reporting.
- Support Technical PMs in ensuring all Products defined in the plan are managed per the configuration management and change management processes, coordinating and collating review cycles with correct stakeholders to meet plan dates.
- Shadow Technical PMs at all internal standups, sprint ceremonies and checkpoints, deputising if/when necessary.
- Support Technical PMs in ensuring the KANBAN boards are being used correctly by all task-based resources to ensure standups are efficient and effective.
- Collate internal progress reporting and input on any agreed external progress reporting the Senior Transition Manager deems required.
- Update and maintain internal RAID log, including capture, update and any governance required to manage, maintain and report.
- Quality Gateway management, including preparing the gateway assessments and managing the gateway governance meetings, assessment issue and mitigations.
- Be responsible for minute taking at internal governance, maintenance of action logs, and may be asked to support governance with client and/or incoming suppliers.
Experience
- Working in a Programme environment, preferably in a PMO function or reporting to a Project Manager
- Supply-side project management, including change management, RAID management and plan management
- Writing reports and managing information for reporting purposes, with excellent writing skills
- Public sector business orientated (i.e., non-technical) client stakeholders.
- Working with outside resources (clients, suppliers), building good delivery relationships to ensure mutual success.
- Working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates
If the above opportunity describes you, then I would love to speak with you, get in touch 01372 862020
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