Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are seeking a Project Coordinator to join our Project Management Office team at our technical centre in Shoreham-by-Sea or Leamington Spa.This role will work in close partnership with Project Managers, Engineers and Finance colleagues to deliver a diverse range of projects and contribute to the efficient operation of the Project Management department.

This is a great opportunity to support the management of a wide number of projects that differ significantly in client type, size and complexity, and to contribute to the development of Ricardo’s Project Management capabilities and services.  Depending upon your career aspirations this opportunity would enable you to develop your project management capability as part of a structured career path at Ricardo.

Key Responsibilities

The main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Provision of support to Project Managers in the administration of large projects e.g. cost tracking, order book amendments, schedule updates.
• Creation and analysis of project metrics.
• Production of project status reports and presentations.
• Project Management and administration of some small projects.
• Provision of support in the generation of proposals and bids through to successful conclusion.
• Interaction with customers and internal stakeholders as required. 

Work will be carried out in accordance with Ricardo project management systems, processes and guidelines.

Skills and behaviours

• Demonstrate good numerical and analytical capability.
• Be competent with MS Excel, Project, Word and Powerpoint, and ideally have experience of working with business ERP systems.
• Be a team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Be a self-starter who enjoys solving problems and helping others achieve goals.
• Demonstrate good attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Demonstrate the potential to manage projects.
• Have an understanding of generic project management processes.
• Ideally hold a qualification in project management or a relevant engineering subject.

Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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