Project Coordinator

Diversified Services Network, Inc.; Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 78,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Diversified Services Network, Inc. is seeking a qualified project professional to plan, lead, and drive medium to large manufacturing projects, coordinating with suppliers, customers and internal teams.

You will manage schedules, risk and cost, facilitate control meetings, and maintain logs and plans to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery and quality deliverables, while continuously improving processes. Bachelor’s degree and 2–3 years of project management experience in manufacturing or quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 2–3 years of project management experience.
• Experience in manufacturing and/or quality is preferred.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with ability to manage resources and schedules.
• Ability to analyze data, report progress, and mitigate risks.

Responsibilities

• Plan projects, identify issues, and drive teams to resolve gaps.
• Maintain project schedules, collect updates, and report variances.
• Facilitate control meetings and planning sessions for medium to large projects.
• Maintain program-level logs, risk registers, and cost tracking.
• Deliver projects on time, within cost, and within quality targets.
• Improve processes for generating customer deliverables.
• Capture information, analyze schedule data, and adjust plans as actions are taken.
• Make recommendations to resolve schedule and cost issues.

Skills

Project management

Planning techniques

Problem solving

Operational planning

Business process improvement

Decision making

Collaborative skills

Data reporting

Schedule management

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.

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

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