IT Project Coordinator

Salary: £36,000 per year

IT PROJECT COORDINATOR

BARNSLEY

c£36,000 pa

My client is a market leader, with over 40 years’ experience in their industry. They have an opportunity for a talented IT PROJECT COORDINATOR to work within their IT (Development) team based at their head office in Grimethorpe near Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Key Responsibilities:

• To support the programme/project managers in the delivery of assigned projects.

• Assist in the creation and maintenance of plans, for delivery of the end-to-end project, with clearly identified milestones.

• Ensure that development and other related activities are progressing per agreed timescales.

• Ensure regular and accurate project status is communicated to key project Stakeholders.

• Work with the Project Manager to eliminate blockers.

• Schedule, prepare documents and circulate promptly for project meetings,

recording actions and decisions.

• Coordinate quality controls to ensure deliverables meet requirements.

• To facilitate the identification and management of key risks and issues among projects including dependencies amongst the wider programmes of work and ongoing activities.

• Act as a point of contact, for all project stakeholders.

• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained.

• Working with other team members, both internally and externally, always ensuring clarity and transparency on projects

• Purchase Order Management, and Invoice reconciliation.

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Solid organisation and time-management skills

• Good communicator with the ability to interpret information

• Team working

• Enthusiasm, positive energy, and ability to remain calm under pressure

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively, with impact across all levels

• Comfortable with changing requirements and simultaneous projects; must be flexible, excellent at multitasking, and able to rapidly adapt and respond to

changes in the technical and business environments

• Experience of applying a flexible approach to suit a particular project

• Understanding of project delivery and acceptance processes

Advantageous:

• Prior experience working in the Manufacturing sector

• Experience of working with ERP, CRM, CPQ, SCM and/or PLM systems

• Experience of end-to-end project Delivery such as deployment and implementation planning and rollouts and back out plans

• Demonstrable experience in business change implementations

• Knowledge and experience using Atlassian products (JIRA and Confluence) to manage projects and project documentation

• Experience of MS Project

• Experience working on an enterprise-wide transformation programme

The working hours are:

Monday to Thursday – 8.30am – 5pm (45-minute lunch)

Friday – 8.30am – 4pm (1 hour lunch)