What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Coordinator - Kimball Hospitality, Jasper, IN position at Kimball International?
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
Skills to Perform This Role:
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.
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
- 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
- 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
