Research Lab Project Coordinator

The main function of a project coordinator is to suuport project manager and project teams on a project. The coordinator ensures that no resources are being allocated to unnecessary tasks and that all aspects of the project are completed as quickly as possible.

Job Responsibilities:

• Check master schedule and work orders, establish priorities, and change schedule according to projects, work order specifications, priorities, and availability of workers, material, or equipment.

• Participate in meetings with clients and task members to determine progress of work and identify additional follow up needs.

• Provide general administrative support including monitoring calendar, setting up meetings, making travel and/or meeting arrangements, entering time and filing expense reports.

• Compile reports concerning progress of work and downtime to distrbute to personnel involved in project.

Skills:

• Possess basic level of Project Management skills.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

• Written and verbal communication skills.

• Interpersonal skills to be able to interface effectively with a broad range of contacts from technical staff to senior management.

• Organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple concurrent activities and to work successfully under pressure.

• Analytical thinker, with ability to solve problems.

• • Can deal with ambiguity and requests for change.

Experience in driving projects, scheduling. Driving key tasks to completion. Taken on projects within cross functional teams.

Able to summarize documents with complex technical terms. Technical documents.

Have experience working with research teams or research scientists.

Asana, AdobeSign etc.