Senior Project Coordinator - Capital Construction Projects

Senior Project Coordinator
- Capital Construction Projects

Duration: 9 Months

Location:

Portland, OR - Local Candidate. Needs to be onsite as needed.

Work Schedule:

20 Hours/Week

Support the generation project management team with executing capital construction projects, specifically focusing on a gas turbine upgrade project. Primary focus will be on coordination of contractor schedules, creating a master schedule that can be reviewed to understand schedule variance and work conflicts. Heavy focus on scheduling and follow up with contractor and project leads. Secondary work focus may include data management and material tracking.

Can you give a high-level overview of your team size, roles, its initiatives/deliverables, and any tool/technologies specific to your team/department/project they will be supporting:
The internal team is approximately 18 people with various roles (Project Management, Engineering, Plant Management, etc.) The primary deliverable is installation of new gas turbine technology at an existing power plant. This individual would be working primarily with MS Project to coordinate contractor schedules during plant outage planning and through plant outage construction.

What would "a day in the life" of this role look like?:
Receiving client's and contractor schedule updates (via email or MS Project file), incorporating those updates into a master schedule, determining schedule variance from those updates, and meeting with client's personnel to discuss schedule changes.

What interaction level with this role have the team members and hiring manager? Primary interaction with Project Manager and Construction Manager, likely once a day Weekly interaction with contractor scheduling lead(s) Occasional interaction with hiring manager.

What would you say is the top priority for the worker over the first few weeks/months?:
Taking multiple contractor and client's schedules and creating a master schedule for the overall work

What do you foresee being the biggest challenge in this role? Sporadic nature of updates from contractors and client's leads

Requirements Requirements 5+ Years of experience in project coordination field. Is utilities experience required? (Y/N) No

• 1. Previous scheduler experience
• 2. MS Project experience
• 3. Attention to detail

• 1.MS Excel experience
• 2. Strong data management & organization
• 3. SharePoint experience