R&D Project Administrator II

Imagine yourself... Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence. At Hach (), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission.

Our founding vision is to make water analysis better - faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment.

More about us:

We offer:

• Generous PTO
• Flexible working hours
• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k) match

Reporting to the R&D Manager, Project Administrator II is responsible for coordinating and supporting the execution of R&D for new product development and sustaining projects. The role partners across cross-functional teams—including Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance—to maintain project visibility, align priorities, identify risks early, and support the delivery of project commitments. This position is part of the R&D department located in Loveland, Colorado and will be on-site.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Maintaining project plans, schedules, action items, risks, decisions, budgets, and project documentation.
• Facilitating project meetings and ensuring actions, decisions, ownership, and due dates are followed through to closure.
• Supporting project scoping, kickoff, prioritization, and planning to align business objectives and success criteria.
• Providing timely project status visibility and escalating risks, resource constraints, and competing priorities appropriately.
• Coordinating work across Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Compliance, and external suppliers.
• Supporting prototype, pilot, launch, and sustaining activities, including material readiness, purchasing, part creation, BOM management, and engineering changes.
• Supporting project financial activities, including requisitions, purchase orders, budget tracking, and invoice follow-up.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• One of the following education and experience combinations:
  Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Operations, Project Management, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience;
  Associate degree in a technical or business-related field with 5+ years of relevant experience; or High School diploma/equivalent with 7+ years of technical, operational, manufacturing, or project support experience.
• Experience coordinating multiple projects, priorities, or work streams simultaneously.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, collaboration tools, and project tracking or reporting tools.
• Experience with ERP, PLM, purchasing, project scheduling, or product lifecycle systems preferred.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Hach is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access…