Engineering Project Coordinator - REMOTE
Talascend is currently seeking an Engineering Project Coordinator for a fully remote, contract opportunity with our client.
Overview
This role focuses on managing engineering design activities, coordinating interfaces between project teams, and facilitating engineering work planning and staffing. The successful candidate will support technical schedule management, resource forecasting, and project risk coordination for complex engineering projects.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate management of project cost, schedule, and scope execution using project management best practices and principles, ensuring adherence to plan and addressing deviations.
- Manage modifications to the high-level engineering schedule through interfaces to project controls organization on behalf of engineering.
- Initiate and facilitate change process approvals for new and emerging engineering activities consistent with project scheduling standards.
- Align and manage breakdown of high-level engineering tasks into discretized activity schedules for multiple design teams.
- Verify and track team assignments within schedules, manage engineering resource levelization over time, and generate resource forecasts monthly.
- Communicate and coordinate buy-in from relevant stakeholders and track requests to resource managers.
- Ensure schedule and resource impacts of technical changes are quantified and communicated.
- Develop, refine, and manage standard design activity sequences for future design phases and procurement activities.
- Create detailed schedule logic tie interfaces for activities within the design team and with external teams.
- Generate and track milestones aligned to task activities and gather status updates from design teams.
- Manage updates to project reporting and provide periodic status updates to engineering leaders.
- Support project risk management by tracking risk status, maintaining the risk registry, and facilitating monthly risk reviews.
- Coordinate project fiscal year schedule, resource, and budget planning efforts.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering discipline from an accredited university
- 4+ years of direct experience with project management
- PMP certification strongly desired
- Demonstrated experience in project management of engineering activities, including systems engineering and nuclear design processes
- Experience working with highly multidisciplinary and matrixed teams
- Strong understanding of technical schedule management, including schedule development, logic sequences, and resource forecasting
- Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, or equivalent project management tools
- Experience with Atlassian tools such as Confluence and JIRA a plus
- Knowledge of NRC 10CFR50 licensing process desirable but not required
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Attention to detail and a drive for excellence
- Self-starter with ability to lead cross-functional efforts with minimal direction
- Ability to handle competing objectives and resolve conflicts effectively
- Ability to translate technical discussions into schedule-impact language
- Experience integrating supplier schedules into the master schedule
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Talascend also offers a variety of benefits including: health and disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, plan requirements, schedule type, and client work site mandates.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.