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Reporting to the Program Management Office, the successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating project activities, maintaining governance processes, supporting stakeholder engagement, and ensuring project information is accurate, current, and accessible.\nThis position is ideal for an individual with 3-6 years of project coordination or PMO support experience who thrives in cross-functional environments and enjoys bringing structure, organization, and accountability to complex business and technology initiatives.\nKey Responsibilities\nProject Coordination & Governance\nSupport the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.\nTrack progress against project objectives and communicate schedule impacts or delays.\nMaintain project action item, decision, risk, and issue logs, ensuring timely follow-up and escalation where required.\nAssist project and workstream leads with planning, status updates, governance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nSupport preparation and coordination of program reviews, milestone reviews, and program governance meetings.\nStakeholder, Team & Vendor Coordination\nCoordinate project meetings, workshops, working sessions, and leadership reviews.\nPrepare agendas, capture meeting minutes, document decisions, and communicate follow-up actions.\nAssist with project communications, presentations, executive updates, and stakeholder engagement activities.\nFacilitate collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, operations, IT, quality, supply chain, and business teams.\nCoordinate activities with vendors, implementation partners, and consultants, including tracking commitments and deliverables.\nSupport change management, user engagement, communication campaigns, training coordination, and adoption activities.\nReporting & Documentation Management\nCollect project performance data and maintain project dashboards and reporting tools.\nPrepare weekly and monthly status reports, executive summaries, milestone updates, and performance metrics.\nManage project repositories and document control processes to ensure information is organized and accessible.\nQualifications & Experience\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Operations Management, or a related field. 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