Project Coordinator

# Project Coordinator Summary You'll manage the planning and execution of architecture and engineering projects, keeping teams on track with schedules, budgets, and quality standards. Day-to-day, you'll collect status updates from team members, facilitate meetings, maintain risk registers and change logs, and analyze schedule data to identify problems early. You'll work across different departments, suppliers, and customers to resolve issues collaboratively. Success requires strong organizational skills, project management expertise, and problem-solving ability. You'll need a bachelor's degree and 2-3 years of project management experience, ideally in manufacturing or quality backgrounds. This role is particularly rewarding at a diversified services firm because you'll gain exposure to varied project types and scales, developing broad expertise. You'll take ownership of multiple initiatives simultaneously while building lasting client relationships across different industries.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Perform project planning, identify critical issues, and drive the project team to resolve gaps and problems. May 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, 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. Requirements EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Bachelor’s Degree required. 2-3 years of real-world experience managing projects with a background in manufacturing and/or quality. REQUIRED SKILLS: 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. Benefits BENEFITS: 401(k) Dental insurance Vision Insurance Disability insurance Employee assistance program Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Paid Holidays Please follow the link to our website for a list of job openings in Engineering, IT, Project Management, and more! https://www.dsnworldwide.com