Supplier Project Coordinator - Charlottesville, VA

Supplier Project Coordinator

Austal USA Advanced (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). a division of Austal USA, a global defense prime contractor and a designer and manufacturer of defense and commercial ships. Austal USA AT works at the forefront to invent, mature, and implement advanced maritime technologies which enhance operational capacities and improve readiness of our defense systems. As a Supplier Project Coordinator, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting the maturation of a defense industrial base that supports additive manufacturing for submarine construction.

This will be a challenging role synchronizing the needs, schedules, and plans of many stakeholders simultaneously, and then reporting out these activities to leadership. We invite you to join us in building the next generation of submarines.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide coordination support for Austal-led outsourced production.
• Create project schedule and work sequences in coordination with vendors based on required customer deliverables.
• Coordinate, mediate and resolve conflicts related to constraints that affect performance to cost and schedule.
• Coordinate, conduct and attend meetings with suppliers and other stakeholders as required.
• Engage with suppliers almost daily to request progress updates, address roadblocks and then identify the pathway to remediate challenges in work schedules.
• Engage with the customer to provide project updates or request required inputs to complete projects.
• Ensure the work in progress is in accordance with the published schedule sequence and create weekly reports for stakeholders.
• Maintain daily communication with the Program Manager, Engineering, Supply Manager, Quality Manager and other stakeholders to report status, concerns and issues and provide support with variance analysis and associated corrective action plans.
• Monitor and validate lessons learned processes and initiatives to maintain and promote continuous improvement.