Engineering Project Coordinator

Position Summary

Provides organizational, administrative, and coordination support to engineering and project teams to ensure projects are executed efficiently, on schedule, and in alignment with technical, quality, and business requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout activities.
• Maintain project schedules, task lists, and action item trackers.
• Track project milestones and flag potential schedule risks to project leadership.
• Aid in maintaining project schedules using Microsoft Project or similar tools.
• Track labor hours, material usage, and outside direct costs (ODCs) in coordination with Engineering and Finance.
• Support documentation control, including engineering deliverables, meeting minutes, and customer-required reports.
• Help ensure project data is current, accurate, and properly archived.
• Cook up meetings, prepare agendas, capture meeting minutes, and track action items.
• Serve as a communication link between Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management.
• Aid in internal and external status reporting.
• Support customer communications under the guidance of senior project staff.
• Aid in identifying schedule, cost, and technical risks.
• Track risks and issues and support mitigation planning.
• Escalate issues appropriately to Engineering Project Managers.
• Coordinate with Engineering teams to track design progress, reviews, and test activities.
• Aid in tracking transition activities from Engineering Development to Production.
• Aid in supporting proposal and quoting activities as assigned.
• Adhere to all safety, regulatory, and quality requirements including OSHA, EPA, and internal procedures.
• Maintain punctuality and reliability in support of project schedules.
• Ability to work flexible hours and/or different shifts, if needed.
• Ability to work in a safe professional manner adhering to all regulatory requirements including OSHA, EPA, State and Federal Regulations.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 0–2 years of experience in an engineering, manufacturing, or technical environment preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); experience with project scheduling tools is a plus.
• Willingness to learn technical concepts and project management best practices.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.

Pay

Salary Range: $29.96 - $35.00 Hourly