Capital Delivery Project Coordinator

Capital Delivery Project Coordinator

Working hours Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered)

Permanent

Salary up to £37,300 per year (depending on experience)

Location hybrid working with office location Pity Me, Durham

About the role

Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) is entering its most ambitious investment cycle—AMP8—delivering over £3 billion in capital projects between 2025 and 2029. To support this scale of infrastructure work, we’re seeking a proactive and organised Project Coordinator to join our Capital Delivery team.

You will help drive successful delivery by coordinating schedules, reporting, and project controls across our capital workstreams. From managing detailed plans to supporting Purchase Orders, diary coordination and stakeholder meetings, this role is essential to keeping our programmes running smoothly and to time.

As Project Coordinator you will support the creation and maintenance of integrated schedules, action trackers, and risk/issue logs. You will support programme and project managers by organising meetings, preparing agendas, and taking minutes for key stakeholders. You will collate updates and produce clear and timely reports and administer financial tracking (Purchase Orders, invoices, budget reviews).

About you

We are looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments and keeps things on track - even when priorities shift. You will be highly organised and great at juggling multiple responsibilities.

You will be a strong with confidence to liaise with both technical and non-technical colleagues. You will be skilled at maintaining accurate schedules, trackers, and reports. You will be proactive, reliable, and committed to supporting a high-performing team.

It will be great of you bring experience from construction, infrastructure, utilities, or regulated sectors - but what matters most is your drive to get things done well.

First stage interviews will take place via MS Teams online on 12th and 16th September 2025

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment.

NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business. Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

This is safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.