Project Coordinator

KBR Careers; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 84,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Project Coordinator in Columbia, MD to support planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting across the project lifecycle. You will liaise with engineering, production, program management, finance, customers, and subcontractors to keep activities aligned with schedules and objectives.

The role requires coordinating meetings, tracking actions, maintaining documentation, and providing visibility into risks, milestones, and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years in project coordination or project management roles.
• Experience supporting engineering, defense, or government contracting environments.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring schedules and priorities are met.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and milestones.
• Track tasks, risks, issues, and action items; prepare status reports and dashboards.
• Facilitate meetings, document minutes, and distribute action items.
• Maintain project documentation including change requests, risk registers, and records.

Skills

Project coordination

Microsoft Office

Jira

SharePoint

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

SharePoint

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Job description

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

Project Coordinator

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

KBR is looking for a Project Coordinator to join our team in Columbia, MD. The Project Coordinator is responsible for supporting the planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting of projects throughout the project lifecycle. This position serves as a key coordination point between engineering, production, program management, finance, customers, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to help ensure project activities remain aligned with established schedules, priorities, and objectives. The Project Coordinator assists with project planning, schedule maintenance, resource tracking, labor and material monitoring, forecasting support, and status reporting activities. The role supports project teams by coordinating meetings, tracking action items, maintaining project documentation, and facilitating project execution across functional organizations. The Project Coordinator provides visibility into project status, risks, issues, milestones, and performance metrics through the collection, analysis, and reporting of project data.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Serve as the central coordinator for projects initiated through requirements and project requests.
• Partner with functional teams to develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, labor hour estimates, and material cost estimates for new and ongoing projects.
• Review historical project data and engineering inputs to support estimating, scheduling, and project planning activities.
• Coordinate with engineering, production, program management, finance, and other stakeholders to support project planning, execution, and successful project delivery.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, project timelines, and coordination activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Track project tasks, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and action items to help ensure project activities remain aligned with project objectives.
• Facilitate recurring project status meetings, capture meeting minutes, document action items, and monitor assigned task completion.
• Maintain project documentation, including schedules, status reports, risk registers, issue logs, action item trackers, change requests, and project records.
• Monitor project progress and provide status updates to stakeholders regarding project performance, risks, issues, and upcoming milestones.
• Coordinate communication among engineering, production, program management, finance, customers, subcontractors, and other project stakeholders as required.
• Support labor, material, resource, and staffing tracking activities to provide visibility into project performance and future requirements.
• Prepare and distribute project status reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentations using Jira, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and other project management tools.
• Assist with project planning, forecasting, budgeting support, and resource management activities by collecting and analyzing project data.
• Track project risks, issues, and change requests, ensuring concerns are documented and routed through appropriate project management processes.
• Help ensure project information, schedules, documentation, forecasts, and reporting data remain accurate, current, and properly maintained.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance project management processes, reporting methods, and team coordination.

Work Environment

• Location: On-site
• Travel Requirements: Minimal
• Working Hours: Standard

Required Qualifications

• Must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Operations Management, Finance, or a related field; 6 years of directly related project coordination, project management, or program support experience may be substituted in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in project coordination, project management, program support, operations, or a related business function.
• Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, defense, government contracting, or other technical project environments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and project management tools such as Jira, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Professional (PMP), or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, government contracting, research and development, or manufacturing programs.
• Experience developing project dashboards, metrics, and reports using Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, or similar reporting platforms.

Basic Compensation

$84,000-$115,400/year

This range is for the Maryland area only.

The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.

Additional Compensation

KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short term incentives, long term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.