Role Description
The Project Coordinator will work with our internal Project Management Team along with a variety of customers (designers, purchasing agents, owners, installers, etc.), as well as suppliers (factory contacts, engineering, purchasing, etc.) on product development and project management and execution.
Responsibilities
- Review customer specifications and validate to ensure they align with supply base capabilities
- Develop product specifications by translating customer specs into working Kimball/supply base specifications
- Coordinate project costing (conditions and assumptions)
- Update / Validate costing, specification, and other data
- Coordinate development of customer finish panel samples
- Coordinate customer shop drawing and finish approvals prior to releasing for sample/production development
- Participate in the review of and approval of preproduction/first article samples
- Develop and maintain relationships with designers, purchasing groups and field sales reps.
Interpersonal Skills
Skills to Perform This Role:
- Must have the ability to relate to individuals with diverse backgrounds
- Flexible, tactful, assertive, patient
- Ability to build and sustain relationships
- Team oriented
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and multi – task
- Strong drive for success
Technical Skills
- Understand the customer, product lines and product specifications
- Has conceptual understanding of modern manufacturing processes and techniques
- Understands quality system requirements
- Problem solving and root cause analysis
- MS skills such as excel, outlook and word required. Syspro experience helpful
- Understand basic project management
Communication Skills
- Ability to negotiate and reach agreements
- Provide management with “toll gate” reviews and/or status updates of project tracking and escalate when situations occur that put the project at risk
