Project Coordinator

Barry-Wehmiller Companies Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Project Coordinator to support operation and service projects across multiple client accounts. You will help maintain schedules, coordinate meetings, and ensure accurate documentation while partnering with project managers, engineering, and field teams.

Ideal candidates bring strong organizational skills, clear communication, and the ability to work across departments in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Detail-oriented and highly organized with strong multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly in writing and verbally across teams.
• Experience supporting project coordination, operations, logistics, or service coordination in fast-paced settings.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate updates from contributors to ensure transparency with leadership on risk, schedule, and financials.
• Support project managers with coordination of active operational and service projects across client accounts.
• Maintain project tracking systems, schedules, documentation, and status records for visibility across initiatives.
• Coordinate communication between project management, engineering, field personnel, subcontractors, and client stakeholders.
• Attend meetings to capture notes, assign action items, and distribute minutes and summaries.
• Assist with project site readiness activities including documentation collection and scheduling support.
• Support process improvement by helping develop standardized workflows and procedures.
• Maintain organized project repositories and shared resources.
• Review reports and documentation to ensure accuracy and consistency.

Skills

Detail oriented

Organization

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Independent work

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/BA in Business or Operations

Tools

SharePoint

Smartsheet

Power Automate

Job description

About Us

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description

DG360, a service offering supported by Barry-Wehmiller Design Group, provides operational support, service coordination, preventative maintenance, emergency response, and project execution support for clients with complex, mission-critical facilities and operational environments. Our team works closely with project managers, technical specialists, field service professionals, subcontractors, and client stakeholders to support efficient project execution, strong communication, and reliable service delivery. We are focused on providing our professionals with opportunities for leadership and career advancement within a thriving work environment and a unique people-centric culture. DG360 is seeking exceptional candidates who thrive in fast-paced work environments and are capable of supporting active service and project operations through strong organization, communication, follow-through, and problem-solving skills. This role will support project coordination, service operations, scheduling activities, documentation management, meeting coordination, reporting, and cross-functional communication across active client projects and operational programs. When you join DG360 as a Project Coordinator, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with seasoned leaders, project managers, technical specialists, subject matter experts, field service teams, and senior leadership to provide timely and accurate information associated with active projects and ongoing service operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate updates from key contributors on projects to ensure transparency with leadership regarding risk, schedule, and financial position.
• Support operational leadership by collecting, organizing, and summarizing project and operational updates for review by the senior leadership team.
• Support Project Managers with coordination of active operational and service-related projects across multiple client accounts.
• Maintain project tracking systems, schedules, operational documentation, and status records to ensure visibility across active initiatives.
• Coordinate communication between project management, engineering teams, field personnel, subcontractors, and client stakeholders.
• Assist with tracking project milestones, action items, operational risks, and scheduling conflicts.
• Attend operational and project-related meetings to capture notes, document action items, identify responsible parties, and distribute meeting minutes and summary recaps to stakeholders.
• Assist with coordinating project and site readiness activities including documentation collection, scheduling support, access coordination, and required pre-work information.
• Support process improvement initiatives by helping develop and maintain standardized operational workflows, tracking procedures, and administrative processes.
• Maintain organized network storage folders, project documentation repositories, and shared project resources.
• Review reports, trackers, and project documentation to support accuracy, consistency, and error proofing.
• Identify client or internal inquiries and ensure successful transfer of ownership to the appropriate project, technical, or operational resource.
• Track and facilitate requests between project managers, engineering teams, technical specialists, field personnel, and operational stakeholders to ensure required information is provided in a timely and complete manner.
• Act as the first-pass resource to help identify and resolve administrative or accounting-related issues such as past due invoices, invoice discrepancies, purchase requests, labor tracking discrepancies, and documentation inconsistencies.
• Drive project success by collaborating with project management, engineering, procurement, accounting, field teams, and leadership to ensure timely completion of critical tasks.
• Support data entry, recordkeeping, and database updates for information collected from the field or generated through project execution.
• Escalate risks, blockers, or unresolved issues to leadership when additional support or direction is needed.
• Provide general operational and administrative support to project managers, service teams, field personnel, and leadership.
• Support ad-hoc projects or responsibilities depending on organizational needs.

Qualifications

• Detail oriented, highly organized, with strong multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Take ownership of responsibilities and assigned tasks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-sufficient and self-motivated.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong collaboration within team environments.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and operational needs.
• Comfortable coordinating across multiple departments, leadership levels, and external stakeholders.
• Passion for process improvement and personal development.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Ability to communicate across many facets of an organizational structure.
• Proficient with common business applications and comfortable learning new software platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting project coordination, operations, logistics, field service, production, service coordination, or similar fast-paced environments preferred.
• Experience maintaining schedules, tracking deliverables, and coordinating cross-functional teams preferred.
• Experience with SharePoint, Smartsheet, Power Automate, or similar project/workflow management tools preferred.
• Exposure to project management, operational support, or service coordination environments preferred.

Education and Experience

• BS or BA degree in Business, Operations, Project Management, Supply Chain, or similar field a plus.
• 3+ years professional experience in project management, operations coordination, production management, logistics, service coordination, or related fast-paced environments.

Travel

0% to 10% - Regional travel for team collaboration, customer support activities, training, or operational initiatives as needed.

Location

Alpharetta, GA

Additional Information

At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work - therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions.

Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process.

Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V

This organization uses E-Verify. Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.

Company: Design Group

Throughout Barry-Wehmiller, we hold ourselves to a unique measure of success: by the way we touch the lives of people. Its that vision that drives us in creating world-class experiences and solutions for our customers and unites us around our common goal - to use the power of our business to build a better world.