FLSmidth

Lifecycle Project Support Coordinator

Create a better future

Do you want to make a difference in the world and contribute to a sustainable future?

We believe we can develop the technology and gain the know-how to make that difference, tackling the climate challenge. But we need your skills, curiosity and drive for change to fulfil our goal. Right now, we have an exciting opportunity for a Lifecycle Project Support Coordinator join our team on a full-time basis.

The Lifecycle Project Support Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, planning, scheduling, expediting and supervising products throughout their lifecycle. They are the main conduit between internal and external stakeholders such as vendors, internal customer service representatives and customers and coordinating with engineering, procurement, QA/QC, and other groups to establish commitment dates and to drive progress during project execution of parts and new equipment sales. The act as the link between our sub-suppliers and our organization, ensuring that the agreed to processes and schedules set by our organization are followed to attain efficiency.

Your responsibilities

• Liaise with the Project Managers to drive project and sales order progress within the project team, including engineering, supply chain, QA/QC, document control, etc.
• Actively participate in project team meetings.
• Responsible to track project changes and ensure documentation updates.
• Proactively communicate project status and risks to project manager and project team.
• Conducts weekly manufacturing schedule meetings and obtains a weekly manufacturing schedule from major sub-suppliers. Monitors the order backlog to ensure delivery of goods on time, at the volume and quality requested.
• Conducts weekly manufacturing production meetings with internal cross-functional teams, reporting back on supplier manufacturing schedule and issues that can be resolved. Obtains updated information from internal cross-functional teams in order to expedite orders.
• Keeps a broad view and control of the progress of projects and makes accurate risk assessment.
• Makes decisions about expeditions, re-schedules, changes in POs in order to meet delivery dates and cost.
• Plans or provides guidance on shipping schedule, working collaboratively with Project Management. Coordinates schedule with Order Management, Purchasing, Logistics, and other cross functional teams. Ensures all team members have a clear understanding of what is required to meet orders and customer needs.
• Prepares regular reports of progress and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders using key account metrics. Internal reports to include a 2-week production and revenue projection report.
• Maintains regular reports to ensure invoicing and documentation are accurate and timely.
• Coordinate and ensure submittal of project closeout documentation.
• Builds and develops long-term lasting relationships with clients and suppliers.

What you bring

• The ability to adapt easily to varied ways of performing tasks, while dealing with people.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral are required to interact with both internal and external customers.
• Experience in coordination, planning and execution of projects with electromechanical content is a must. Degree in an Engineering disciple advantageous, as is experience with ERP systems (Oracle or Microsoft Dynamics 365 preferred).

FLSmidth is the leading supplier of engineering, equipment and service solutions to customers in the mining and cement industries – for more information please visit FLSmidth.com/careers