Project Coordinator

Project Coordinator

Permanent, full-time role

Location: Braintree, Essex

Salary: up to £27,000 plus benefits

Swann Engineering Group Ltd

Swann Engineering Group is an ethical and forward-thinking group where we want our vision and values to not only shape our people but also the environment around us. Our strength comes from our effective corporate governance, diversity of specialist skills and experience but most of all, our excellence in managing all aspects of the product lifecycle under one roof including design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and customer support.

Swann Engineering Group has a proven track record to tackle bespoke engineering projects of any size in any sector from telecommunications, outdoor media, structural and architectural, floodlighting & gantries and defence and radar solutions. With our Head office based in Braintree, Essex, and a headcount of 120 employees we are a trusted partner to the UK’s leading mobile network operators, including EE/BT, Vodafone, 3UK, VMO2, and telecommunications infrastructure owners, MBNL, Cornerstone, Cellnex, WIG as well as NATS and BAE.

About the role

In this role you will support the Steelwork & Projects Estimating team in preparing technical and commercial responses to a variety of customer enquiries. This will involve co-ordinating the enquiries workstream, liaising with clients to understand requirements and deliver quotations with support from the estimating team. You will interpret customer requirements (often from technical drawings) and convert into Swann Engineering Group product and service quotations, providing timely quotations to customer enquiries, along with sales order processing and customer relationship management for the Swann group of companies.

Main Duties

• Interpret customer drawings and specifications to understand the requirement relating to an enquiry.
• Assigning tasks/requests to persons/teams within the business.
• Undertake pricing workups for Steelworks and/or Tender related works.
• Check customer requirements against available product types.
• Utilise the company’s pricing system (MS Excel & CRM based) to compile quotations for telecoms and special projects.
• Liaise with subcontractors, suppliers and internal procurement to check costings where required.
• To investigate ways of reducing price through supply chain, method of fabrication/installation or value engineering, etc.
• Ensure that outgoing quotations meet correct quality standards and profit margin requirements.
• Assist with budgeting for orders incoming to the business compiling summaries of the costs that were allowed for during the quotation process.
• Act as a point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
• Monitor projects and quotations and handle any issues /changes that arise.
• Assist in handing over orders to the operational delivery team.
• Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment and information
• General administration and associated works where required.

About you

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualifications in Mathematics (GSCE or above) demonstrating a strong numerical skillset
• Competent with the use of web browsing tools for online research purposes
• Proven effective experience working and delivering within a technical environment
• Good engineering/technical/manufacturing experience, understanding and background
• Some previous experience of pricing, costing or quoting is desirable
• Prior experience in of estimating steelwork fabrication beneficial but not essential

Aptitude, skills and abilities

• Strong written and spoken English language skills
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non- technical clients
• Computer literate; conversant in the use of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel

Personal attributes

• Enthusiastic, proactive and organised individual with good use of initiative
• Good team player
• Ability to work well under pressure and have a flexible approach to working

Candidates should live within a reasonable commute to Braintree and have the right to work in the UK.

This is a permanent, full-time role from Monday to Friday.

Please apply with a CV.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.