RDEC Coordinator
Based: Manchester or Dartford
This role does not provide visa sponsorship
This role includes regular site visits (typically 1–2 day trips per week, with 1–2 nights away per month)
Join our Portfolio Management Office (PMO) as an RDEC Coordinator, a high‑profile role that helps our innovative business gain recognition for our continuous improvement and often ground‑breaking activity, while maximising our R&D tax credit opportunities.
This is a great Squiggly Career move: you'll build project management, stakeholder and commercial skills in a small, close‑knit team, with visibility across the organisation. You'll coordinate RDEC activity across our project portfolio, support teams to spot and evidence eligible work, and keep everything moving, from first conversations through to robust, compliant submissions.
What you'll be doing:
- Coordinate RDEC activities across our project portfolio
- Work with project teams to identify and evaluate eligible R&D activities, innovations and associated costs
- Liaise with project managers, finance and R&D teams to align on RDEC strategies and evidence requirements
- Review successful RDEC claims to capture insights, lessons learned and best practice
- Develop and deliver training materials, workshops and guidance to support project teams
- Support the continuous improvement of internal RDEC processes, ensuring compliance with evolving regulations
What we're looking for:
You're energetic, proactive and happiest when you're working with people, building relationships, asking great questions and turning complexity into clear next steps. You're a self‑starter who enjoys getting out to sites, understanding what teams are doing day‑to‑day, and following actions through from start to finish.
Key skills and capabilities include:
- Strong project management skills and the ability to coordinate multiple activities
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior and cross‑functional stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial and technical data
- A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams
- Attention to detail, with the ability to articulate complex information clearly and concisely
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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