Project Coordinator

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Location:

For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Inverness, Aberdeen, or Perth.

£36,139 - £43,188 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

As SSEN Transmission continues to deliver an ambitious portfolio of offshore infrastructure projects, we're looking for Project Coordinators to join our growing Offshore Directorate. Supporting project teams across a range of exciting programmes, you'll play a key role in coordinating activities, maintaining project controls, and helping to ensure our projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.

The key duties and responsibilities of the Project Coordinator are:

• Managing the project accounts, raising purchase orders, making sure suppliers are paid on time and dealing with external supplier queries.
• Coordinating and preparing project related meetings, making sure these are scheduled, attended and minutes are recorded to a high quality.
• Supporting the project team to meet Project Governance milestones and deadlines.
• Coordinating all project reporting and presentation packs – making sure these are produced on time and to a high-quality standard.
• Assisting with any additional project specific administration duties.

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

• Excellent administration and organisational skills; this role is a busy one and will allow you an opportunity to learn about our business and interact with a wide range of stakeholders and project teams.
• You will be highly literate with a keen eye for detail, and an ability to prioritise workload, incorporating demanding deadlines. This includes the ability to work on your own and as part of a team.
• Be able to demonstrate a proven ability to problem solve and be able to prioritise and work in the most efficient and collaborative way. This will require excellent communication skills.
• The role will also involve managing project finances, therefore experience in this key area is beneficial.
• Sound understanding and experience of working with multiple software packages and systems.

The role will involve travelling to different sites/offices with the occasional night away. A driving license is essential.

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030. SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport electricity from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown power for the future and building the infrastructure needed for a cleaner electricity system to create secure power for generations to come.

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact  / to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

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