Engineering Project & Program Coordinator

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates strong understanding of product development lifecycle and software engineering methodologies, and their execution principles.

• Coordinates multiple projects within a large scale program involving one or more functions driving the engineering development and implementation process for products or service offerings.

• Applies intermediate level of subject matter knowledge and actively participates to solve variety of common business issues; uses analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.

• Plans, coordinates, and executes moderately complex projects, which includes defining project scope, requirements, and deliverables, creating and managing project schedules, and tracking progress and resolving issues.

• Develops portions of support requirements for assigned project, including budgets, and resource allocation plans, in accordance with provided plan and specifications.

• Coordinates the activities of associated project teams; tracks progress against established plans, reports results, and makes recommendations for alterations or updates to program manager.

• Develops program communications, including creation of status reports and summaries, tracking escalations and resolutions of issues, coordinating stakeholder meetings and updates, and updating project and program plans.

• Drives simple and effective processes to avoid quality and execution issues in the development cycle

Education & Experience Recommended

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.

• Typically has 2-4 years of work experience, preferably in engineering development and implementation, project planning tools and software packages, people management, or a related field or an advanced degree with little or no work experience.

Knowledge & Skills

• Agile Methodology

• Automation

• Change Management

• Computer Science

• Continuous Improvement Process

• JIRA

• Kanban Principles

• Lean Manufacturing

• Milestones (Project Management)

• New Product Development

• Process Improvement

• Product Management

• Project Engineering

• Project Management

• Project Planning

• Project Schedules

• Risk Management

• Scrum (Software Development)

• Software Development

• Sprint Planning

Impact & Scope

• Impacts immediate team and acts as an informed team member providing analysis of information and limited project direction input.