What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Coordinator position at Salas O'Brien?
Project Coordinator – Evansville, IN
You dream about organization. You love to collaborate with a team of experts. And you never stop growing.
The Job
Our office in Evansville, Indiana is looking for a Project Coordinator to join our growing team. In this position, you will work in a collaborative team environment helping project managers and project teams for our wide variety of clients. This role is intended to be a developmental role leading to a potential future Project Manager role. You will report to a Discipline Manager that will lead the coordination of your development. This is an in-office position with a flexible work schedule to support normal office hours of 7:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.
Essential Job Functions and Primary Responsibilities
- Perform standard/typical assignments applying project management principles under the direction of a project manager
- Exhibit a high standard of professionalism and client focus.
- Seek opportunities to perform more complex, professional assignments.
- Monitor, update and evaluate the status of the project schedules, cost estimates, and procurement items of assigned projects and communicate status to the Project Managers and project teams.
- Develop standards and document work processes and procedures for typical project tasks.
- Perform procurement, expediting, and tracking activities based on project requirements.
- Attend project meetings, including project team, owner, and subcontractor meetings, sometimes as our representative
- Maintain and issue meeting minutes for client communications and reporting.
- Perform some work at our client’s sites working around heavy industrial equipment, systems, and conditions accompanied by an experienced technical lead.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with the client’s project team, our in-house team, our vendors, sub-consultants, and subcontractors.
- Ensure compliance with office and client project standards.
- Develop an understanding of various contract formats including our contractual obligations and the owner’s obligations to support the management of any potential commercial risk to the parties.
- Assist in the development of project risk assessments and risk mitigation plans
- Help manage and verify that we deliver a quality product to our clients and that our deliverables meet our quality standards.
- Able to work in an environment requiring frequent sitting (often working on a computer) as well as frequent driving, flying, walking, stair or ladder climbing, standing, light lifting, bending, and reaching.
- Work closely with Project Managers on special ad hoc assignments required to meet the client’s project requirements.
The above job functions and responsibilities are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by a Project Coordinator. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Duties and responsibilities may be added or changed as deemed appropriate at any time.
Attributes of Top Performers
- Minimum Technology or Associate degree or 3 years of related experience
- Self-motivated
- Proficient in providing strong customer service to clients is essential.
- Demonstrate creativity
- Computer knowledge and efficiency with Microsoft products
- Resource and Cost loading knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of engineering consulting and construction industries
- Knowledge of PMP best practices
- Ability to multi-task
- Functions effectively as part of a team
- Dependability
- Ability to always maintain discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to understand and follow directions
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Ability to quickly learn and run new or updated software
- Develop innovative ideas
History & Core Values
Why Work for Salas O’Brien?
With a motto of “expect a difference,” a compelling, ownership-driven culture, and offices around the country, Salas O’Brien draws the best engineering, architecture, and construction professionals in the country. We believe our attitude of ownership has profound impacts on how we treat each other and serve our clients.
We challenge you to find a firm with more opportunities for personal and professional growth than Salas O’Brien. Our many offices offer our team of employee-owners:
- Variety of projects and clients
- Collaboration with experts
- Growth opportunities within a local office or other Salas O’Brien offices
- Awesome culture defined by our Ownership Values
Of course, we also offer outstanding benefits—everything you would expect for insurance and vacation time, plus incentives for sustainable living, professional education & licensure reimbursement, and flexible work scheduling at the arrangement of your manager.
EEO Statement
Salas O’Brien is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status, such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or age.
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