Graduate Project Co-Ordinator

Graduate Project Co-Ordinator

Location: CDE Global Cookstown Location, Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Job Description

This is an entry level role and a gateway role into CDE Project Co-Ordinator. Working with a process driven approach, the purpose of this role is to get an understanding of Project Management Principles that best enables you to deliver projects within CDE in line with the CDE Project Co-Ordinator Framework and best practice. You will work within the Project Co-Ordinator Team to build strong foundations that will help you to deliver projects successfully.

Using the CDE Project Co-Ordinator Framework you will familiarise yourself with project phases and the associated project milestones that are to be completed at each stage. You will learn how to deliver these stages utilising Project Co-Ordinator best practice. You will conduct rotation training by spending time with stakeholders and understanding how their roles interact and help to deliver overall project success and how your role within Project Co-Ordinator helps them to succeed.

You will have exposure to customers and see the world through their experience of CDE. You will feed back this experience to help make changes and improvements internally. You will support more senior team members to deliver project success. Successful completion of the competencies within this role can enable you to progress within the Project Co-Ordinator Team.

• Always ensure full compliance to CDE’s and our customers’ health & safety requirements within the region ensuring you and those you work alongside get ‘Home Safe Every Day’.
• Ensure compliance with CDE continuous improvement culture ‘Do It Right’.
• Learn about the project phases that exist within CDE from Concept through to Commissioning and the challenges that can arise within each.
• Develop the skill set to ensure that you can approach each of these project phases with competence and confidence.
• Become comfortable and familiar with the documentation that exists for each phase of a customer project.
• Understand the importance of live and accurate information and the presentation of facts to the customer.
• Ensure that good relationships are fostered internally and that real time communication is free flowing and accurate.
• Operate in line with the CDE Project Co-Ordinator framework.
• Develop working knowledge of project management best practice.

• Develop awareness of contractual arrangements for each assigned project.
• Spend time with CDE Legal and finance teams to understand the commercial and contractual arrangements that exist within projects.
• Visit customers on site and attend internal customer visits.
• Spend time with our internal customers and collaborators to understand stakeholder roles and responsibilities.

• Develop cognition of the concept and planning phases of each project and the planning outputs from these.
• Understand that having an adaptable response is often required and how to ensure that as changes arise, they are communicated and the system is updated promptly and fully. Become familiar with the SCR process.
• Become familiar with the project forecasting initiative for budget control.
• Assist when necessary to keep projects on time and be aware of formal notification documentation that need to be submitted to customers when we encounter delays that affect timelines.
• Be aware of payment milestones, the invoicing process and the conversations that can arise when trying to seek payment.
• Understand the escalation process that ensures that no equipment leaves CDE without payment – unless approved by the Financial Controller.

• Develop an understanding of the monitoring and control reports and data that are utilised within the department to deliver projects and to drive business improvements.
• Understand the performance management that is in place and use to measure both individual and team levels.
• Become familiar with the reports and documents that are utilised to inform internal and external stakeholders about project progress.

• Show a desire and passion for Project Co-Ordinator and a willingness…