CDE Group, Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Overview
This is an entry level role and a gateway role into CDE Project Co-Ordinator. Working with a process driven approach, the purpose of this role is to get an understanding of Project Management Principles that best enables you to deliver projects within CDE in line with the CDE Project Co-Ordinator Framework and best practice.
You will work within the Project Co-Ordinator Team to build strong foundations that will help you to deliver projects successfully. Using the CDE Project Co-Ordinator Framework you will familiarise yourself with project phases and the associated project milestones that are to be completed at each stage. You will learn how to deliver these stages utilising Project Co-Ordinator best practice.
You will conduct rotation training by spending time with stakeholders and understanding how their roles interact and help to deliver overall project success and how your role within Project Co-Ordinator helps them to succeed.
You will have exposure to customers and see the world through their experience of CDE. You will feed back this experience to help make changes and improvements internally.
You will support more senior team members to deliver project success. Successful completion of the competencies within this role can enable you to progress within the Project Co-Ordinator Team.
Please note, this job description is not exhaustive as other duties may be required to fulfil the requirements of the role.
Responsibilities
* Project Co-Ordinator: Always ensure full compliance to CDE’s and our customers’ health & safety requirements within the region ensuring you and those you work alongside get ‘Home Safe Every Day’.
* Project Co-Ordinator: Ensure compliance with CDE continuous improvement culture 'Do It Right'.
* Project Co-Ordinator: Learn about the project phases that exist within CDE from Concept through to Commissioning and the challenges that can arise within each.
* Project Co-Ordinator: Develop the skill set to ensure that you can approach each of these project phases with competence and confidence.
* Project Co-Ordinator: Become comfortable and familiar with the documentation that exists for each phase of a customer project.
* Project Co-Ordinator: Understand the importance of live and accurate information and the presentation of facts to the customer.
* Project Co-Ordinator: Ensure that good relationships are fostered internally and that real time communication is free flowing and accurate.
* Project Co-Ordinator: To operate in line with the CDE Project Co-Ordinator framework.
* Project Co-Ordinator: To develop working knowledge of project management best practice.
Customer Relations
* To develop awareness of contractual arrangements for each assigned project.
* Spend time with CDE Legal and finance teams to understand the commercial and contractual arrangements that exist within projects.
* Visit customers on site and attend internal customer visits.
* Spend time with our internal customers and collaborators to understand stakeholder roles and responsibilities.
Timeline & Budget Management
* Develop cognisance of the concept and planning phases of each project and the planning outputs from these.
* Understand that having an adaptable response is often required and how to ensure that as changes arise they are communicated and the system is updated promptly and fully. Become familiar with the SCR process.
* Become familiar with the project forecasting initiative for budget control.
* Assist when necessary to keep projects on time and be aware of formal notification documentation that need to be submitted to customers when we encounter delays that affect timelines.
* Be aware of payment milestones, the invoicing process and the conversations that can arise when trying to seek payment.
* Understand the escalation process that ensures that no equipment leaves CDE without payment – unless approved by the Financial Controller.
Communications & Reporting
* Develop an understanding of the monitoring and control reports and data that are utilised within the department to deliver projects and to drive business improvements.
* Understand the performance management that is in place and use to measure both individual and team levels.
* Become familiar with the reports and documents that are utilised to inform internal and external stakeholders about project progress.
Progression
* Show a desire and passion for Project Co-Ordinator and a willingness to learn.
* Demonstrate the ability to discern the information that will help the project and that which may potentially create ambiguity.
* Operate with a spirit of transparency and trust. Provide constructive challenge when necessary.
* Visit customer sites with PM and attend PM team meetings.
* Conduct rotations within CDE departments.
Qualifications
* A degree or equivalent experience
* A minimum of 1 year experience within the manufacturing industry.
* Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact effectively and professionally with individuals at all levels; both internally and externally. The ability to exercise sound judgment in responding to enquiries.
* Strong self-motivation with exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. The ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously within inflexible time frames.
* Available to work flexible hours.
* Willingness and ability to travel frequently.
* Current driving licence and vehicle insured for business use.
Desirable
* A professional qualification in an Engineering discipline.
* Experience in a customer facing role within manufacturing.
Job Details
* Closing Date: Thursday 11th September, 2025
* Contract Type: Full-time
* Salary: Based on Experience
* Location: CDE Group Ltd, H1, Kilcronagh Business Park
About The Company
WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.
Company Culture: We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.
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