Program Coord

Kaman Human Resources • Bennington, VT

23h

About The Position

The Program Coordinator will be responsible for developing and executing negotiation and proposal plans and strategies for assigned projects in collaboration with the value stream program manager. This role involves leading cross-functional project teams to identify and resolve execution roadblocks, ensuring the timely delivery of programmatic commitments. The coordinator will also be responsible for identifying issues, tracking progress, and ensuring follow-through on corrective actions, DMRs, and customer requests. Additionally, they will organize interdepartmental activities to ensure projects are completed on schedule and within budget, prepare and present project status reports to leadership, and lead teams in forecasting build plans, delivery plans, and yearly value stream forecasts. The role requires reviewing daily, weekly, and monthly customer commitments and working with operations managers and Production Control to track, schedule, and drive production commitments through delivery. Collaboration with and attendance at customer meetings to support the Program Manager with customer requests is also a key part of the role. Travel may be required.

Requirements

• Possess exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey information clearly and effectively.
• Demonstrated relationship management, enabling the development and maintenance of strong, positive relationships with stakeholders, creating weekly delivery schedules and clearly communicating weekly goals
• Exhibit strong decision-making abilities, characterized by making sound, proactive choices that drive success
• Possess excellent negotiation skills, with a proven ability to achieve win-win solutions.
• Ability to evaluate quality of work product to ensure satisfaction of customer requirements
• Ability to identify issues, track progress, and follow through on effective corrective actions based on data analysis and trends
• Ability to lead teams in matrix organization to achieve schedule, cost, and technical performance objectives
• Ability to track work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet schedules
• Ability to understand and analyze value stream financial data.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of risk and opportunity management and ability to apply them to projects and suppliers
• Supports the development and execution bids through production execution

Nice To Haves

• Strong background in product management
• Proficiency in MS Office

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes negotiation and proposal plans and strategies for assigned projects in collaboration with value stream program manager
• Leads cross-functional project teams to identify execution roadblocks to ensure delivery of programmatic commitments
• Identifies issues, tracks progress, and ensures follows- through on corrective actions, DMRs and customer requests
• Organizes interdepartmental activities to ensure projects completion on schedule and within budget
• Prepares and presents project status reports to leadership as needed.
• Leads team in forecasting build plans, delivery plans and yearly value stream forecasts
• Reviews daily, weekly, and monthly customer commitments and works with operations managers and Production Control to track, schedule and drive production commitments through delivery
• Works with and attends customer meetings to support Program Manager with customer requests

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed