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Project Coordinator – Engineering

Basingstoke / Hybrid | Competitive Salary

Are you highly organised, proactive, and looking to grow your career in project coordination within a technical environment? Join SWARCO and play a key role in supporting innovative engineering projects that help shape smarter urban systems and transport solutions.

We’re looking for a motivated Project Coordinator – Engineering to work closely with our Urban Systems Manager, helping to coordinate and support a variety of engineering-led projects across our Hardware, Software, and Support teams.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing structure, visibility, and organisation to fast-moving technical projects while developing their experience in planning, reporting, budgeting, and cross-functional coordination.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Project Coordinator, you’ll help ensure our engineering projects run smoothly by supporting planning, reporting, scheduling, and resource coordination across multiple teams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating and maintaining project plans across Urban Systems, Software, Hardware, and Support teams
• Tracking project progress, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery impacts
• Supporting resource planning and identifying potential conflicts across engineering disciplines
• Monitoring project budgets and tracking actual versus planned spend
• Producing clear project status and budget reports for management review
• Supporting planning meetings and internal reviews with accurate, up-to-date information
• Maintaining project documentation, schedules, and reporting trackers
• Assisting with continuous improvement of planning and reporting processes

Profile

What We’re Looking For

We’re interested in candidates who are organised, detail-focused, and confident working with multiple priorities in a collaborative technical environment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in a project coordination, PMO, planning, or project support role
• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• Confidence using project plans, spreadsheets, and reporting tools
• Basic understanding of budget tracking and cost management
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical teams and stakeholders
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain attention to detail
• Good Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook

Desirable

• Experience working within a software or engineering environment
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, MS Project, or Microsoft Planner
• Experience supporting internal improvement or operational projects

Benefit

Your Benefit

In addition to providing a competitive salary and benefits package, we actively run employee opinion surveys as part of our drive to provide a comfortable and supportive working environment. We will support your development and you will also receive:

• 25 days holiday rising to 28 days with bank holidays included
• Paid Birthday off
• Employee discount portal
• Generous employer pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance 

Interested?

Please apply by clicking on the apply button.

Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis, and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before any advertised closing date. We, therefore, encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. Applications received after the closing date will not be processed.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK, all successful candidates must have the right to work in Ireland by the start of their employment. We are an equal opportunities employer. 

Agencies, please note, that should we require recruitment agency involvement, we will contact the agencies on our PSL; we would ask that you respect the relationships we have already built with these suppliers. If an agency submits an unsolicited CV to any partner or employee of our company for a role we have not actively engaged with you on, you should be aware that they have no authority to enter into an arrangement with you and we will consider the CV a gift! We will not be liable for any payment you charge in relation to it.

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