Project Coordinator

Diversified Services Network, Inc.; Louisiana (MO); 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 Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams in manufacturing settings. You will plan, schedule, and monitor projects, driving teams to resolve gaps with suppliers, customers, and internal units.

You will maintain risk logs, track costs, and progress, while ensuring on-time delivery and quality targets. Strong problem solving and collaboration are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects to achieve objectives.
• Ability to recognize and resolve organizational or process problems with appropriate solutions.
• Ability to contribute to short-, mid-, and long-term planning in support of the business plan.
• Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to monitor and enhance processes.
• Ability to apply business knowledge to make sound decisions in diverse situations.
• Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with various individuals and groups.
• Knowledge of reporting tools and data collection for monitoring and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Plan projects and drive teams to close gaps and resolve issues with multiple units, suppliers, customers, and teams.
• Manage project schedules, collect updates, report variance and risk.
• Facilitate project meetings and planning sessions for medium to large projects.
• Maintain program-level logs, risk registers, scope changes, plans, and cost tracking.
• Deliver projects on time, within cost, and meeting quality targets.
• Improve processes for generating customer deliverables.
• Capture project data, analyze schedule updates, resolve logic errors, and adjust plans.
• Recommend actions to resolve schedule and cost issues.

Skills

Project management

Problem solving

Planning

Process improvement

Decision making

Collaborative skills

Reporting tools

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 withinquality 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.
• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid Holidays

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