Project Management | Ref: 301050
Project Officer
Salary circa £35,000
Full time | Permanent | Closing date 01/09/2026
We’re excited to offer an opportunity to join the Renewals team in the Major Projects Directorate. We’re looking for a Project Officer to help deliver a variety of important engineering and architectural transport projects while working with third parties to provide guidance and facilitate safe access for activities taking place on or near Nexus infrastructure.
You’ll have a relevant qualification or experience in engineering, surveying, or project management. You’ll bring solid project management experience, good contract and programme awareness, and a strong sense of motivation and pride in your work. You’ll also have excellent relationship building skills, clear communication abilities, and experience working with key internal and external stakeholders. In this role, you’ll manage competing priorities, negotiate outcomes, and act as a key link between stakeholders, project teams, and the wider business.
Typical Day
You must be able to work collaboratively as part of a team that lives our company values every day supporting each other, delivering exceptional service, and creating a positive, respectful environment for colleagues and customers alike.
As a colleague within Nexus, you will take pride in delivering your best performance, respecting others and working towards team goals through collaboration, agility and embracing learning opportunities.
Our Team
You will join a diverse team who are passionate about project management and delivery. There are 26 colleagues in the Renewals team, many of whom have progressed careers within Nexus whilst also recruiting new talent along the way. You will also work alongside your Major Projects colleagues as well as other departments including Engineering, PMO, and Commercial, who together, work for the benefit of our colleagues, customers and key stakeholders.
About Us
We care for our communities, deliver with trust and accountability, and adapt with innovation. Every journey is designed to be sustainable, inclusive, and customer-focused because when we move forward together, we create a cleaner environment, a stronger economy, and a better future for all.
What we offer
Our selection process includes a structured interview. Interviews will take place week commencing 14 September 2026.
If you believe this is the role for you, please upload your CV and a covering letter explaining how you meet the essential criteria that are found in the Person Specification before 9am on Tuesday 1 September 2026.
Please note: All communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered online with North East Jobs, this will include your invitation to any online assessment you are required to undertake and also your invite to interview if you are short-listed. Please ensure you check your email inbox after the closing date for notifications from North East Jobs as you will not be notified by any other means. Please also remember to check your junk email items as the notification may appear here.
You’ll have a relevant qualification or experience in engineering, surveying, or project management. You’ll bring solid project management experience, good contract and programme awareness, and a strong sense of motivation and pride in your work. You’ll also have excellent relationship building skills, clear communication abilities, and experience working with key internal and external stakeholders. In this role, you’ll manage competing priorities, negotiate outcomes, and act as a key link between stakeholders, project teams, and the wider business.
Typical Day
- Every day can be different when working on large scale projects, however a typical day could include:
- Reviewing project plans, progress updates, and priorities with the Project Manager to ensure project activities remain on track.
- Coordinating project work packages, monitoring deadlines, budgets, risks, and quality requirements.
- Managing approval processes for technical, financial, and commercial documentation, ensuring records are accurate and approvals are obtained in a timely manner.
- Organising, chairing, and facilitating project meetings, preparing agendas, distributing papers, and recording actions and decisions.
- Liaising with contractors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to gather information, resolve issues, and support project delivery.
- Monitoring project activities through site visits, inspections, or progress reviews, ensuring work is being delivered as planned.
- Reviewing project expenditure and supporting the assessment and processing of payment applications.
- Preparing project reports, dashboards, presentations, and updates for senior stakeholders.
- Ensuring all activities comply with health and safety, environmental, quality, and engineering standards.
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) with relevant experience supporting projects, programmes, and operational workstreams.
- Working knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, and best practice.
- Experience coordinating and delivering multiple workstreams to agreed timescales, ensuring objectives are met within available resources.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a range of stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands and consistently meet demanding deadlines.
- Proven ability to plan, coordinate, and monitor activities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Experience preparing reports, maintaining records, scheduling meetings, and supporting project governance activities.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and implement practical solutions.
- Able to work independently using initiative, while also contributing effectively as part of a team.
- Experience in specialist administrative, project support, or project officer roles, with a track record of supporting successful project delivery.
You must be able to work collaboratively as part of a team that lives our company values every day supporting each other, delivering exceptional service, and creating a positive, respectful environment for colleagues and customers alike.
As a colleague within Nexus, you will take pride in delivering your best performance, respecting others and working towards team goals through collaboration, agility and embracing learning opportunities.
Our Team
You will join a diverse team who are passionate about project management and delivery. There are 26 colleagues in the Renewals team, many of whom have progressed careers within Nexus whilst also recruiting new talent along the way. You will also work alongside your Major Projects colleagues as well as other departments including Engineering, PMO, and Commercial, who together, work for the benefit of our colleagues, customers and key stakeholders.
About Us
We care for our communities, deliver with trust and accountability, and adapt with innovation. Every journey is designed to be sustainable, inclusive, and customer-focused because when we move forward together, we create a cleaner environment, a stronger economy, and a better future for all.
What we offer
- This is a Monday to Friday job
- You’ll work a 36-hour week
- You'll have the option to work a minimum of 60% of your working week in the office and the rest at home
- You’ll be part of a generous pension scheme
- 28 days annual leave per year, bank holidays and time off for volunteering too
- Enjoy travelling for free in Tyne and Wear with our enhanced travel benefits
- You will have the opportunity to contribute to a health cash plan that will contribute (and dependants if you have them) towards dental costs, optical, and lots more
- Access to our reward app with over 1000 plus high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out
- We like to grow our own colleagues (not literally of course!), so when you’re ready for the next step in your career, we can help develop you.
Our selection process includes a structured interview. Interviews will take place week commencing 14 September 2026.
If you believe this is the role for you, please upload your CV and a covering letter explaining how you meet the essential criteria that are found in the Person Specification before 9am on Tuesday 1 September 2026.
Please note: All communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered online with North East Jobs, this will include your invitation to any online assessment you are required to undertake and also your invite to interview if you are short-listed. Please ensure you check your email inbox after the closing date for notifications from North East Jobs as you will not be notified by any other means. Please also remember to check your junk email items as the notification may appear here.
Accessibility and support
Nexus is committed to having a diverse and inclusive culture and will put the diversity and inclusion of all our customers and colleagues at the top of its corporate agenda.
By working together and attracting, developing and retaining a diverse mix of employees, we believe we can create a more diverse and inclusive environment, which attracts candidates from all backgrounds and achieves our objective of promoting and celebrating diversity.
- We support and promote Women In Transport
- We have achieved a Gold Award for the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme
- We have achieved the Better Health at Work Maintaining Excellence Award
- We have an accredited Disability Confident Employer
- We are a Committed Member of Inclusive Employers
