Job Posting Start Date 10-25-2024 Job Posting End Date
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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Project Specialist located in Buffalo Grove IL.
Reporting to the Program Manager the Project Specialist will assists with managing customer accounts in all aspects of the business relationship. value to the business and its customers.
Shift: 8:00am-4:30pm M-F
What a typical day looks like:
- Assist in the review of program proposals or plans to define time frame, procedures for accomplishing program, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of program.
- Confers with appropriate managers within Program Management, Operations and others to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority, and to receive technical advice and resolve problems.
- Drives and coordinates projects/activities with the Customer Focus Team (CFT) members to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget, including facilitating the work/communication across different departments.
- Prepares program reports and executive presentations for management, client, or others.
- Assist in metric development and tracking for the program.
- Occasional travel to customer locations
- Drive the team to look for continuous improvement activities that have an impact in the project timeline, cost or daily production activities.
- Follow up on shipments to ensure we meet site and customer guarantees without any delay and coordinate the team to any issue that could generate an impact.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3 years of experience in a manufacturing or related Industry.
- Advanced knowledge of functional concepts
- Office Skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation package and database systems.
- Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Matching 401K
- PTO
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee discounts at local retailers
YV
Job Category
Operations
Relocation: Not eligible
Is Sponsorship Available?
No
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