Project Coordinator

Diversified Services Network, Inc.; Lafayette (LA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Health savings account

Employee assistance program

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Diversified Services Network, Inc. is hiring for a project management position in Lafayette, Louisiana. The role entails planning, project oversight, and ensuring successful project completion on time and within budget.

Candidates should hold a Bachelor’s Degree and have 2-3 years of experience in a related field. Benefits include 401(k), health insurance, and more. Join a team committed to driving projects from initiation to completion with quality and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of real-world experience managing projects in manufacturing and/or quality.

Responsibilities

• Perform project planning and drive the project team to resolve issues.
• Maintain program-level issues/logs and program cost tracking.
• Make recommendations to resolve schedule and project cost issues.

Skills

Project management

Problem-solving

Planning techniques

Business process improvement

Collaborative techniques

Data reporting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

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.

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