Help deliver the projects that shape a better future. Join Buro Happold as a Projects Operations Coordinator.
This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model. This is a 6 months FTC Opportunity.
At Buro Happold, our projects help shape a more sustainable, equitable and resilient world. Behind every successful project is a team that ensures our people, processes and systems work seamlessly together.
We're looking for a proactive and analytical Project Operations Coordinator to join our UK Project Operations team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting project delivery across our engineering teams, helping to drive operational excellence, improve commercial performance and enable better business decisions.
About The Role
Working closely with the Project Operations Manager and collaborating with teams across Finance, Legal, Governance, Business Development and Engineering, you'll help ensure projects are delivered efficiently, risks are managed effectively, and our teams have the information and tools they need to succeed.
If you enjoy building relationships, working with data, improving processes and making a tangible impact across a business, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the effective delivery of operational processes across engineering teams, ensuring consistency and best practice.
- Build strong relationships with project teams, Discipline Directors and key business stakeholders.
- Become a trusted super user of Buro Happold's project management tools and business systems, providing guidance and support to colleagues.
- Champion the adoption of project management tools and operational standards across the business.
- Assist with monitoring commercial performance through reporting and analysis of ERP data, helping inform business decisions.
- Support the Project Operations Manager with resource reviews, portfolio reviews and Project Director check-ins, coordinating actions and tracking progress.
- Act as a first point of contact for day-to-day operational queries, working with stakeholders to resolve issues and escalating where appropriate.
- Review project portfolios to support Job Leaders in the successful management of their projects.
- Produce and review reports to maintain high standards of data quality and project information accuracy.
- Identify operational risks and support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance business resilience and efficiency.
- Prioritise your workload effectively while adapting to changing business needs in a fast-paced project environment.
About You:
- Degree, relevant qualification or equivalent experience in Business Management, Finance, Project Management or a related discipline.
- Experience in a business support or project coordination role, ideally within a professional services environment.
- Strong analytical skills and confidence working with data, reporting tools and business systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build relationships across a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- A collaborative approach, with a willingness to learn, share knowledge and contribute positively to team success.
- A proactive mindset, taking ownership of tasks, identifying opportunities for improvement and helping solve problems.
- Confidence working with ERP systems or similar business platforms, with an eye for detail and data accuracy.
- Resilience, adaptability and a continuous improvement mindset, with a genuine interest in developing new skills and supporting operational excellence.
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What we Offer You:
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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