Project Coordinator – F&B / Hospitality
Salary: £35,000 to £45,000, dependent on experience
Location: Central London
Working pattern: Office Based
Sector: Hospitality, F&B, Retail, and Leisure construction (client-side project management)
About the consultancy
This is a boutique client-side construction consultancy that delivers projects for its clients both in the UK and internationally. It has earned the position most firms spend far longer chasing: the go-to name in its sector. That has not come from being the biggest. It has come from a small, sharp team consistently adding real value for brands across hospitality, F&B, retail, and leisure.
The work tends to be the kind people actually eat in, shop in, or unwind in, rather than abstractions on a drawing. The client list is growing, and the consultancy is hiring to keep pace with it rather than to fix anything that is broken.
It is described, rather nicely, as small but perfectly formed, and that tells you something about how they think. This is a place that would rather be the best in its corner than the biggest in the room, and where a coordinator is close enough to the action to learn from genuinely good people.
About the role
This is a Project Coordinator role, and a genuinely good one for someone early in their construction career who wants to learn from the top. You will report into a Project Director and support them directly, while also supporting other project managers across the business to deliver projects across the UK.
The job is to keep things moving. Working closely with the Senior Project Manager, you will help deliver the full project lifecycle across multiple complex projects at once, making sure the standards hold and the deadlines do too. A lot of that comes down to being the person who tracks the detail: knowing what needs to happen when, chasing it, and keeping everyone honest on the programme.
It is a role built on relationships as much as admin, with a real focus on hospitality and F&B fit-outs. Success here means building effective working relationships with clients, contractors, and senior leaders in the business, and becoming the dependable pair of hands the project managers come to rely on. For the right person, this is a proper foot in the door: fantastic exposure, excellent people to learn from, and genuine scope to grow and develop quickly.
Your days will look something like this
- Support project managers by tracking projects through the pre-construction process, making sure activities happen when they should
- Arrange and attend site meetings where needed, producing detailed, accurate minutes
- Generate tender lists for projects with support from the project managers
- Check measures on drawings against the measures stated in tender returns, and review them with the project managers
- Assist the project managers with cost reporting, including project-specific reports and budgetary trackers
- Keep project programmes updated so that all delivery dates stay on track
- Provide weekly progress reports for clients
- Manage and improve the aftercare and handover process across the project list
You might be our perfect match if…
- You are dynamic, enthusiastic, and genuinely keen to build a career in construction project management
- You are highly organised, with a sharp eye for detail and a knack for keeping plates spinning
- You can build effective working relationships with clients, contractors, and senior colleagues
- You are comfortable with project administration, cost reporting, and keeping programmes up to date
- You can read drawings and are confident checking measures against tender returns
- You are proactive and reliable, the kind of person who notices what needs doing and gets on with it
- Some prior exposure to construction, fit-out, hospitality, or F&B environments is a welcome bonus rather than a must
Why this one
- Fantastic exposure early on, with the kind of senior people around you who make the trade quick to learn
- A direct line to a Project Director and senior project managers, which is the fastest way to learn this properly
- Varied, hands-on work across hospitality, F&B, retail, and leisure, both in the UK and internationally
- A small, close-knit team where your contribution is visible and actually matters
- Real scope to grow and develop quickly into a project management role as the business expands
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