Graduate Project Co-Ordinator

CDE Global Ltd; Cookstown; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental solutions company in Cookstown, Northern Ireland is seeking a Graduate Project Coordinator. This entry-level role involves training in project management principles and contributing to project success by working with senior team members. The ideal candidate will be on track to graduate in 2026 with a relevant degree and possess strong interpersonal and organizational skills. Competitive salary based on experience offered.

Qualifications

• On track to graduate in 2026 with a relevant degree.
• A minimum of 1 year placement experience within the manufacturing industry.
• Strong self-motivation with exceptional organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure full compliance to health & safety requirements.
• Learn about project phases and challenges.
• Develop skills to manage project phases competently.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Self-motivation

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Financial awareness

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent hands-on experience

Job description

CDE Group, Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Graduate Project Coordinator

Location: CDE Global Cookstown Location

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.

Responsibilities

• 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’.
• Ensure compliance with CDE continuous improvement culture 'Do It Right'.
• Learn about the project phases that exist within CDE from Concept through to Commissioning and the challenges that can arise within each.
• Develop the skill set to ensure that you can approach each of these project phases with competence and confidence.
• Become comfortable and familiar with the documentation that exists for each phase of a customer project.
• Understand the importance of live and accurate information and the presentation of facts to the customer.
• Ensure that good relationships are fostered internally and that real time communication is free flowing and accurate.
• To operate in line with the CDE Project Co-Ordinator framework.
• 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 and 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.

Key To Progression

• Show a desire passion for Project Co-Ordinator and a willingness to learn.
• Demonstrate the ability to show discernment with regards to 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.

Required Criteria

• On track to graduate in 2026 with a relevant degree, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• A minimum of 1 year placement 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.
• The ability to adapt to frequent priority changes Strong financial and commercial awareness.

Desired Criteria

• Experience in a customer facing role within manufacturing.
• A professional qualification in an Engineering discipline.

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. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. 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.

Closing Date

Wednesday 31st December, 2025

Contract Type

Fulltime

Salary

Based on Experience