Salary up to £30,000 depending on experience
Location Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
Renishaw is seeking a Project Coordinator to support the successful delivery of projects across our engineering and technology teams. This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and proactive individual to develop their project management and systems administration skills while working with a wide range of stakeholders.
In this varied role, you will support project planning, coordination, reporting and governance activities, while maintaining accurate project information within Jira. You will work closely with project teams to ensure tasks, risks, dependencies and project data are effectively managed, helping teams deliver projects efficiently and on schedule.
Responsibilities
As a Project Coordinator, you will:
- Support project teams by maintaining accurate and up-to-date project information within Jira.
- Create, update and administer Jira issues, tasks, epics, dashboards and reports.
- Assist with project communications and provide regular updates in line with project communication plans.
- Use project scheduling tools to accurately record and maintain project information.
- Produce reports and dashboards to support project tracking and status reporting.
- Monitor project data quality, identifying and resolving incomplete or inconsistent information.
- Support users with Jira-related queries and escalate more complex issues where appropriate.
- Track project costs, risks and actions, maintaining associated project documentation and registers.
- Assist in identifying project dependencies and ensuring project information remains accurate and current.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of project processes, tools and ways of working.
- Support compliance activities by highlighting potential project or product-related issues.
- Provide administrative support to project teams and related support functions where required.
Key requirements
To be successful in this role, you will be a highly organised individual with strong attention to detail and a willingness to learn. You will be comfortable working with a range of stakeholders and managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
You will ideally have:
- Experience using project scheduling or project management tools.
- Experience using Jira for project, software or work management activities, although this is not essential.
- An understanding of project coordination activities, including task management, risk identification and progress tracking.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
- Good communication skills, with the confidence to work with stakeholders at different levels.
- The ability to gather information, clarify requirements and support informed decision-making.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high-quality project data.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Competent IT skills, including experience producing reports and working with data.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or [email protected].
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Employment Type:
PermanentTime Type:
Full timeRequisition Number:
R10079 Project Coordinator (Open)Skills Required
- Experience using project scheduling or project management tools
- Experience using Jira for project, software, or work management activities
- Understanding of project coordination activities, including task management, risk identification, and progress tracking
- Strong organizational and planning skills, with the ability to prioritize workloads effectively
- Good communication skills and confidence working with stakeholders at different levels
- Ability to gather information, clarify requirements, and support informed decision-making
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining high-quality project data
- Proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement
- Competent IT skills, including experience producing reports and working with data
Renishaw Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Renishaw and has not been reviewed or approved by Renishaw.
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Retirement Support — The pension scheme includes a 9% employer contribution with salary‑sacrifice options, signaling strong long‑term savings support. Feedback suggests this materially strengthens total compensation in the UK.
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Healthcare Strength — Subsidized private medical cover, life assurance, and a 24/7 EAP—alongside options like a health cash plan and on‑site fitness centers—indicate comprehensive health and wellbeing support. These provisions contribute to a sense of strong healthcare coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days of annual leave with company days, long‑service accrual, and the option to buy additional leave point to generous time‑off provision. Hybrid and “variable working” arrangements further support work–life balance when roles allow.
Renishaw Insights
What We Do
Renishaw is one of the world's leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It is also a world leader in the field of additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing), where it designs and makes industrial machines which ‘print' parts from metal powder. The Renishaw Group currently has 80 offices in 36 countries, with over 5,000 employees, of which over 3,000 people are employed within the UK. The majority of the company's R&D and manufacturing is carried out in the UK and for the year ended June 2019, Renishaw achieved sales of £574 million of which 94% was due to exports. The company's largest markets are USA, China, Japan and Germany
