IT Project Coordinator

Career Opportunities with Applegreen USA Welcome Centers Central Services

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Location: Glen Rock, NJ
Work Arrangement: This hybrid role is based in Glen Rock, NJ and requires 3 days per week in the office.

What We Do

At Applegreen, our mission is to delight customers in transit with passionate hospitality and brands they love.

Applegreen is a leading roadside retailer operating high-quality travel plazas and service areas in the US, Ireland, and the UK. Founded on a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and customer experience, Applegreen combines fuel, convenience retail, and a diverse portfolio of food and beverage offerings to create welcoming destinations for customers.

In the U.S., Applegreen partners with major transportation authorities and operates more than 120 service plazas along some of the country’s busiest highways and turnpikes. The company is known for modern facilities, strong national and local food brands, and an emphasis on freshness, quality, and sustainability.

At Applegreen, our people are at the heart of what we do. We foster a culture that values teamwork, development, and accountability, offering employees opportunities to grow their careers in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Applegreen continues to expand while remaining focused on delivering exceptional service to customers and creating a great place to work.

Our Core Value

Our core values define who we are and guide how we work every day. They shape our decisions, inspire our actions, and influence how we engage with our customers, suppliers, business partners, and one another.

Our customers and communities are at the heart of everything we do.

We value and develop our people.

We are driven by pace, passion and performance.

We seek opportunities and embrace change.

• Paid Time Off
• 401 (k) with Company Match
• 5% Annual Bonus
• Hybrid Work Arrangement
• Earned Wage Access – Pay on Demand
• Education Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Pet Insurance

Position Summary

The IT Project Coordinator provides administrative and operational support to the PMO, IT leadership team, and broader IT organization in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This role is responsible for coordinating project-related activities, maintaining documentation, supporting procurement processes, tracking purchase orders and invoices, coordinating meetings, assisting with reporting and budget administration, and pivoting as priorities change.

This position requires the ability to manage multiple priorities at once, respond quickly to changing business needs, and support requests from PMO leadership, other IT teams, and the VP of IT as needed.

Projects and support activities may include small application enhancements or system upgrades, site-based technology changes or rollouts, reporting and tooling improvements, process improvement initiatives, and defined work streams within larger IT projects.

This role may also provide a development path toward an IT Project Manager role by building hands-on delivery experience, governance knowledge, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional coordination skills while working under the guidance of experienced project and PMO leaders.

• Maintain and create project or team trackers, templates, and PMO records.
• Assist in preparing project status reports, presentations, and meeting materials.
• Maintain filing systems and document repositories within SharePoint and other collaboration platforms such as Journey/Workvivo.
• Support adherence to PMO standards, processes, and governance requirements.
• Balance multiple priorities, deadlines, and administrative requests in a fast-paced IT environment.
• Coordinate actions, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and follow-ups across internal teams and vendors, ensuring delivery activity remains visible and controlled.
• Support project reviews, checkpoints, lessons learned, go-live preparation, and handover to business-as-usual support teams.
• Prepare and maintain project artifacts such as high-level plans, milestone trackers, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, reporting inputs, governance artifacts, and handover checklists.

• Support small, clearly scoped IT initiatives or defined work streams under the direction of PMO leadership or an assigned Project Manager.
• Assist with defining scope, timelines, delivery steps, stakeholder updates, and handover…