About us
Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research organisations to achieve ground-breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid by developing the power stations of tomorrow and the skilled workforce to deliver them.
About the job
As a Project Coordinator, you’ll provide essential support across multiple UKAEA projects, helping projects, enabling project teams to focus on technical delivery while maintaining robust project and programme governance and controls. Your work will contribute to projects that support UKAEA’s mission to deliver sustainable fusion energy while creating scientific and economic benefit. This is an opportunity to develop your project delivery experience while working across a varied portfolio of complex and high-value projects.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Maintain project registers, filing systems, databases and records in line with UKAEA requirements.
- Prepare draft project reports, presentations and documentation, including templates where required.
- Coordinate project meetings, gate reviews and boards, including preparing papers, recording minutes and tracking actions.
- Track project actions through to timely completion and provide coordination support to the Project Manager.
- Analyse project and financial data to produce accurate project reports.
- Maintain project risk and change registers, ensuring risks, changes and deviations are recorded and tracked.
- Raise requisitions and work orders, process invoices and track purchase orders and expenditure.
- Monitor purchase order expenditure and highlight variances or emerging issues to the Project Manager or relevant Responsible Officer.
- Coordinate administrative activities across the project teams and with enabling and interdependent teams to support delivery.
- Participate in PfMO knowledge-sharing and training initiatives and support compliance with UKAEA policies, including Health & Safety, EDI and security requirements.
What You’ll Bring
- HNC, apprenticeship or equivalent qualification in Business, Project Management, Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience producing clear project reports and meeting minutes.
- Experience supporting projects, including coordinating activities, maintaining records and tracking actions.
- Experience using purchasing or financial administration systems, or equivalent experience managing project procurement activities.
- Experience supporting complex projects or coordinating interfaces across larger programmes or operational function.
- An APM PFQ or equivalent project management qualification is desirable.
UKAEA is an onsite organisation, and this role requires regular onsite presence (usually between 3-5 days in any given week) in line with business needs. We actively support flexible working arrangements where this is compatible with the role.
Benefits
We have a generous range of benefits (see the full list here ) and highlights include:
- A salary of £32,903
- Up to 7% corporate performance bonus
- Final salary defined benefits pension scheme with an equivalent of 21.5% employer pension contribution
- 25 days annual leave plus 2.5 'privilege' days; 8 Bank Holidays
- Additional 3 days of site closure over Christmas break
- Flexible working options plus family-friendly leave provisions
Our commitment to ED&I
UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce.
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or require adjustments to help you participate fairly in our recruitment process, for example changes to the way we interview or share information. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates.
We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds. All appointments are made on merit and further information can be found here .