Project Coordinator in Consett, County Durham

We have exclusively partnered with a leading specialist in advanced, unique aerospace systems in their search for a Project Coordinator based in Consett. Are you looking for an opportunity to support a small, focused engineering team by taking ownership of planning, tracking and coordination so senior engineers can concentrate on technical delivery? Do you have practical experience of project coordination, Gantt charts and bringing stakeholders together in a technical or regulated environment? If so, we want to hear from you!

What’s on Offer?

• Competitive salary
• 5 days on-site in Consett
• Opportunity to shape practical processes in a brand-new support function within a highly technical aerospace business

Your Role as a Project Coordinator:

• Maintain project plans, schedules (Microsoft Project / Gantt charts), milestones, dependencies and project records across the Engineering function.
• Track actions, decisions, risks and issues. Keep owners and due dates visible and follow up consistently.
• Organise and facilitate project reviews; prepare consistent status and monthly update reports for engineering leadership.
• Provide resource-planning visibility (workload, capacity and forecasting) for decision by the VP of Engineering and Lead Engineers.
• Facilitate clear communication and information flow across the two engineering teams and with Operations, Quality, Finance, Commercial and other stakeholders.
• Support project mobilisation, bid activities and change-control administration where required.
• Develop and maintain proportionate coordination processes, templates and records that the team will actually use.
• Escalate issues requiring prioritisation, resource decisions or technical input promptly to the appropriate leader.

What We’re Looking For:

• Practical experience of classical project coordination: creating and maintaining Gantt charts / Microsoft Project schedules and resource forecasting.
• Confident personality able to bring stakeholders together, chase information and constructively challenge Lead Engineers when needed.
• Highly organised, methodical and attentive to detail.
• Adaptable and moldable able to learn the company’s current ways of working and help create processes that fit rather than imposing a rigid external playbook.
• Clear communicator who can present complex information concisely.
• Degree not essential, equivalent experience is acceptable. 

Preferred but not essential: previous project coordination or project-support experience; exposure to engineering, manufacturing, aerospace or another regulated/technical environment; experience maintaining action logs, risk/issue registers and structured status reporting.

This is a dedicated support and facilitating role with technical ownership, people management, engineering approvals, project prioritisation and resource-allocation decisions remain with the VP of Engineering and Lead Engineers. It is a strong opportunity to make the engineering leads’ lives easier while giving leadership reliable visibility in a unique aerospace business.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now!