Program Coordinator

SUMMARY

- This is a staff position that requires a very good understanding of program and project management tools and processes.
- The incumbent will provide facilitation for project teams and will lead control meetings and chartering/planning sessions for small to medium projects.
- Incumbent may assist senior coordinators with larger, more complex chartering/planning sessions.
- Maintains program level issues/action logs, risk registers, scope change requests/logs, program work plans, and program cost tracking.
- Maintains accurate project schedules with some follow-up by Program Management Supervisor to ensure data quality.
- The incumbent captures project information, analyzes data from schedule updates (eg critical path), works with project team members to resolve logic errors, helps explain changes due to updates, and updates plan according to actions taken by the project team to resolve schedule problems.
- Creates report packages and communicates project status.

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QUALIFICATIONS

- This position requires a four year college or university degree.
- Three to five years of job-related experience in program management.
- Exposure to engineering, or product development.
- Must possess sound knowledge of project management software (Primavera or MS Project)
- MS Office (Excel/Word/Powerpoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Web Publishing tools
- Need experience on the manufacturing side.