Senior IT Project Coordinator (Closed)

Lucas Group is partnering with a multinational manufacturing company. Their sales are the second largest in the world and the world leader in water vehicle productions and sales.

Position Summary:

• Responsible for organizing our ongoing IT  projects 
• This role involves managing project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures, organizing and participating in stakeholder meetings, and ensuring that project deadlines are met in a timely manner.
• Responsibilities include submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective project communication plans as well as the proper execution of said plans.

Job Responsibilities:

• Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.
• Coordinating with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
• Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures
•  Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing and summarizing relevant information.
• Organizing, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings.
• Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings. Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
• Ensuring project deadlines are met. Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
• Providing administrative support as needed. Undertaking project tasks as required.
• Developing project strategies.
• Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project. Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable.
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
• Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members. Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.

Education / Experience:

• Bachelor degree in industrial engineering, business, or related field of study.
• Project Management certification or work towards such a certification is a plus (e.g. PMP, CAPM) One to three years’ experience in related field.

Other Required Skills:

• Exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills. Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience using computers for a variety of tasks.
• Advanced Competency in Microsoft applications including Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Knowledge of file management, transcription, and other administrative procedures.
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of formal project management methodologies is a plus.