Project Coordinator

# Project Coordinator Role Summary You'll serve as the operational backbone for complex architecture and engineering projects, managing timelines, budgets, and team coordination across multiple stakeholders. Day-to-day, you'll collect status updates from team members, facilitate planning meetings, maintain detailed schedules and risk registers, and identify critical path issues to keep projects on track. Strong organizational and problem-solving skills matter most—you'll need to spot potential delays early and recommend solutions to resolve schedule and cost overruns. Project management expertise and proficiency with scheduling tools are essential. This role is particularly valuable at a diversified services firm, where you'll gain exposure to varied project types and work across multiple engineering disciplines. You'll build broad experience quickly, managing medium-to-large initiatives while developing skills applicable across any industry. The position offers genuine autonomy and growth potential as you demonstrate capability managing increasingly complex programs.

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 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 Salary expectations: 77,500-83,600 per annual