Overview

Project Coordinator – Chatham
Job Description

CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water’s water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half its region (Kent & Sussex).

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for the co-ordination day to day of site office activities to ensure smooth running of the office. They will assist the Project team with tracking essential deliverables, throughout construction and for project completion, and maintaining overarching communication between different teams across CMDP.

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Responsibilities

  • Maintain and update master drawings, ensuring version control, accuracy, and timely distribution to all relevant stakeholders.
  • Provide administrative support for project close-out activities, including compiling final documentation and verifying completion records.
  • Conduct quality audits on site documentation to ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and company standards.
  • Maintain and organise project folders (digital and physical), ensuring accessibility, accuracy, and compliance with document control processes.
  • Manage office administration tasks including maintaining stock of office supplies and PPE, processing purchase orders, handling invoices, and coordinating material deliveries. Assisting with Requisition orders
  • Coordinate and facilitate project meetings, including preparing materials, recording minutes, and circulating action logs.
  • Liaise with internal teams, contractors, and external stakeholders, including managing accommodation bookings, welfare queries, and traffic management/permit documentation.
  • Prepare and submit regular project reports, including fortnightly update packs for the Senior Leadership Team, and support social value and promotional initiatives such as Wellbeing.
  • Assist with Monthly reporting and Project review slide packs

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good communicator and able to work within a team
  • Organised, attention to detail, able to prioritise workload
  • Construction industry experience (preferable but not essential)
  • Understanding of construction industry practices and procedures (preferable but not essential)
  • Understanding and ability to read basic construction drawings (preferable but not essential)
  • Experience of being part of infrastructure programmes of work

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of Office 365 & good computer skills
  • Relevant construction industry qualifications (preferable but not essential)
  • Relevant Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Card (preferable but not essential)

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

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About the Team

CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water’s water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half of its region (Kent & Sussex).

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