Project Coordinator

About This Role

This Project Coordinator role supports the entire project lifecycle, from planning and execution to monitoring and reporting. It serves as a central coordination point, ensuring project activities align with established schedules, priorities, and objectives across various stakeholders. The role involves assisting with planning, schedule maintenance, resource tracking, and status reporting, and provides visibility into project status, risks, and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central coordinator for projects initiated through requirements and project requests
• Partner with functional teams to develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, labor hour estimates, and material cost estimates for new and ongoing projects
• Review historical project data and engineering inputs to support estimating, scheduling, and project planning activities
• Coordinate with engineering, production, program management, finance, and other stakeholders to support project planning, execution, and successful project delivery
• Develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, project timelines, and coordination activities throughout the project lifecycle
• Track project tasks, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and action items to help ensure project activities remain aligned with project objectives
• Facilitate recurring project status meetings, capture meeting minutes, document action items, and monitor assigned task completion
• Maintain project documentation, including schedules, status reports, risk registers, issue logs, action item trackers, change requests, and project records
• Monitor project progress and provide status updates to stakeholders regarding project performance, risks, issues, and upcoming milestones
• Coordinate communication among engineering, production, program management, finance, customers, subcontractors, and other project stakeholders as required
• Support labor, material, resource, and staffing tracking activities to provide visibility into project performance and future requirements
• Prepare and distribute project status reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentations using Jira, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and other project management tools
• Assist with project planning, forecasting, budgeting support, and resource management activities by collecting and analyzing project data
• Track project risks, issues, and change requests, ensuring concerns are documented and routed through appropriate project management processes
• Help ensure project information, schedules, documentation, forecasts, and reporting data remain accurate, current, and properly maintained
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance project management processes, reporting methods, and team coordination

Requirements

• Must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Operations Management, Finance, or a related field; 6 years of directly related project coordination, project management, or program support experience may be substituted in lieu of a bachelor's degree
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in project coordination, project management, program support, operations, or a related business function
• Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, defense, government contracting, or other technical project environments
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and project management tools such as Jira, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms

Nice to have:

• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Professional (PMP), or equivalent certification
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, government contracting, research and development, or manufacturing programs
• Experience developing project dashboards, metrics, and reports using Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, or similar reporting platforms

Benefits

• Innovative Projects: KBR
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense
• KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation
• Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short term incentives, long term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance

Important Details

• Travel Requirements: Minimal
• Working Hours: Standard

About the Company

KBR delivers science, technology, and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world, employing approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world.