Project Coordinator

Diversified Services Network, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 77,500 - 83,600; 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 manufacturing and quality initiatives. You will plan projects, track schedules, manage risks, and facilitate team meetings with suppliers, customers, and internal units.

The role emphasizes delivering projects on time and within cost, maintaining change logs, and driving process improvements across programs with strong reporting and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 2-3 years of real-world project management experience in manufacturing or quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, identify gaps, and drive the team to resolve issues with suppliers, customers, and internal units.
• Manage project schedules, collect updates, and report variances and risks.
• Facilitate control meetings and planning sessions for medium to large projects.
• Maintain program-level issues, risk registers, change requests, work plans, and cost tracking.
• Aim to deliver projects on time, within budget, and with quality targets.
• Improve processes for generating customer deliverables.
• Capture project data, analyze schedule updates, resolve logic errors, and adapt plans accordingly.
• Recommend actions to resolve schedule and cost issues.

Skills

Project planning

Schedule management

Risk reporting

Facilitation

Cost tracking

Process improvement

Collaboration

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 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

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