Project Coordinator

Diversified Services Network•Lafayette, IN

29d

About The Position

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for performing project planning, identifying critical issues, and driving the project team to resolve gaps and problems. This role may involve direct interaction with various units, suppliers, customers, and other teams. Key activities include managing project schedules, providing status updates, collecting updates from team members, variance reporting, and risk reporting. The coordinator will also facilitate project teams, lead control meetings, and conduct chartering/planning sessions for medium to large projects. A significant part of the role involves maintaining program-level logs for issues/actions, risk registers, scope change requests, work plans, and cost tracking with minimal supervision from the Program Management Supervisor. The ultimate goal is to ensure projects are implemented successfully, meeting on-time, within-cost, and within-quality targets. Additionally, the role requires maintaining and improving processes for generating customer deliverables and analyzing project data to resolve schedule and cost issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required.
2-3 years of real-world experience managing projects.
Background in manufacturing and/or quality.
Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Knowledge of reporting tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

Responsibilities

Perform project planning, identify critical issues, and drive the project team to resolve gaps and problems.
Work directly with different units, suppliers, customers and/or other teams.
Work on project schedules, status updates, collecting updates from team members on projects, variance reporting, and risk reporting.
Provide facilitation for project teams, leading control meetings and chartering/planning sessions for medium to large projects.
Maintain program-level issues/action logs, risk registers, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, and program cost tracking with little follow-up from the Program Management Supervisor.
Be successful in implementing projects on time, within cost, and within quality targets.
Maintain and improve processes for generating customer deliverables.
Capture project information, analyze data from schedule updates (e.g. critical path), work with project team members to resolve logic errors, help explain changes due to updates, and update plan according to actions taken by the project team to resolve schedule problems.
Make recommendations to the project team to resolve schedule and project cost issues.