Project Specialist

STANDARD TEXTILE; Cincinnati, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Textile is seeking a Project Specialist in Cincinnati to work with the General Contracts Project Management team. You will organize and lead project communications, ensure milestones are met, and maintain profitability from start to finish.

Key requirements include a high school diploma, 3+ years in customer service or admin roles, and strong organizational skills. Bluebeam experience and ability to read plans are preferred, with potential for a 4-year degree and additional delivery

Qualifications

• Education required: high school diploma.
• Preferred: 4-year degree.
• Experience: minimum 3 years in customer service or administrative work.
• Must manage priorities and meet outcomes.
• Preferred: 5+ years and proven delivery success.
• Skills: strong organizational abilities.
• Preferred: ability to create shop drawings/submittals.
• Special: ability to read plans.
• Preferred: Bluebeam experience.

Responsibilities

• Receive and reply to communications from consultants or customers.
• Manage open order reports weekly to ensure date management.
• Coordinate with installers, consultants, or customers to verify field work.
• Provide milestones including ship dates and backorders.
• Maintain communication with internal departments on milestones.
• Be available outside business hours to address needs.
• Enter product orders accurately from field measures, quotes, and drawings.
• Organize and lead conference calls and meetings with stakeholders.

Skills

Strong organizational skills

Ability to read plans

Customer service experience

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Bluebeam

Job description

At Standard Textile, we're dedicated to providing comfort and care across generations. Guided by our values, we focus on solutions that serve our customers, support our associates, and strengthen our communities. Since 1940, we've remained committed to creating better textiles—delivered seamlessly by experts who care.

The Project Specialist will work closely with the General Contracts Project Management team for high profile or general contractor projects as assigned. The Project Specialist will confidently organize and lead project related communications to ensure all project milestones are met and will be responsible for project accuracy while maintaining profitability of the project from beginning to end.

Responsibilities

• Receive and reply to all communications from assigned consultants or customers
• Manage open order reports on a weekly basis to ensure date management protocol is followed
• Work with installer, consultant or customer on a detailed level to ensure project is field verified and installed per specification and/or customer expectations
• Proactively provide consultants or customers with important order milestones including ship dates and backorders
• Maintain communication with internal departments to ensure all project related milestones are met
• Be routinely available outside of normal business hours to address business needs
• Responsible for accurate order entry of product based on field measures, quotes, designer specification and purchase order, along with submittals and shop drawings
• Organize and lead conference calls and meetings with project stakeholders

Qualifications

• Education Required: High school diploma
• Preferred: 4-year degree
• Experience Required: Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in customer service and/or administrative work
• Demonstrated success in managing priorities while meeting desired outcomes effectively
• Preferred: 5+ years of relevant experience, with a strong track record of successful delivery
• Skills Required: Strong organizational skills
• Preferred: Ability to create shop drawing/submittals
• Special Skills Required: Ability to read plans
• Preferred: Bluebeam experience

Proudly, Standard Textile has earned a title of US Best Managed Company for the sixth year running, an honor awarded by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, celebrating the exceptional achievements of American private companies and their management teams.

Standard Textile is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

Join us! We're passionate about creating innovative textiles and services that provide people around the world a healthier, more gratifying, and more inspiring life.

Founded in 1940, Standard Textile has developed a culture of innovation, quality, and service. With more than 150 patents, our products are engineered to deliver durability, longevity, and value.

A vertically integrated company, we're the leading global provider of total solutions in the institutional textiles and apparel markets. Leveraging textile design, manufacturing, and laundry expertise, and our global infrastructure, we serve customers in the healthcare, hospitality, interiors, workwear, and consumer markets worldwide.

We have been inspiring care, comfort, and change in our communities for more than 85 years.

While our business is creating innovative textiles, it's our purpose that guides the solutions we offer and drives how we treat our customers, our associates, and the impact we make in our communities. We hold ourselves to a higher standard. A higher standard for why we exist, for how we create, and for what's next.

Standard Textile has been selected as US Best Managed Company for a fourth consecutive year! Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, the program recognizes outstanding U.S. private companies and the achievements of their management teams.

Standard Textile supports a Drug-Free Workplace.

Any offer of employment for this position will be contingent upon the candidate passing a post-offer, pre-employment drug screen* and satisfactory background investigation.

*Candidates selected for employment in Ohio will also be subject to a nicotine screening included in pre-hire requirements. In order to pass the nicotine screening, you must be completely free of the use of any nicotine containing products.

To support individuals protected under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Veteran's Readjustment Act of 1974, we offer reasonable accommodations.