Program/Project Coordinator

Are you a Program/Project Coordinator looking to join one of the top companies in the Energy and gas industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in office management or project coordination?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work onsite with our client in San Antonio, TX. Interested?

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $ 50.00 /hr

Hours: 40 hrs/week

Length: Temp (6 months)

Here's what you'd do:

• Develops, schedules, monitors and improves the performance in managing the business area's portfolio of capital projects.
• Responsible for the management and execution of external contracts, business plans, and budgets in line with company policies and controls.
• Collaborates with Project Leaders and management in mitigating project/program/portfolio schedule conflicts and coordinating technical support.
• Performs highly complex and varied tasks requiring independent knowledge, its application to a variety of situations, as well as the exercise of independent judgement and decision-making.
• Provides support in the development of and completion tracking of action items and process improvement efforts.
• Acts as a liaison within the client's staff, and externally with organizations, vendors, and elected official staff as needed to support the business area.
• Creates and maintains project, program and portfolio schedules.
• Monitors, tracks and makes recommendations regarding scheduled tasks and resource conflicts.
• Monitors and tracks project/program/portfolio performance.
• Identifies improvements in existing processes needed to support project/program/portfolio management and maintains process documentation.
• Oversees periodic divisional meetings required to resolve key project/program/portfolio issues.
• Assists in the development and delivery of process and project/program/portfolio training.
• Develops administrative and technical reports to help facilitate completion of related tasks and improve efficiency and accuracy of resource management.
• Develops and implements project/program/portfolio participant roles and responsibilities.
• Develops and presents project/program/portfolio process guidelines.
• Collaborates with Project leaders in managing project/program/portfolio schedules.
• Performs other projects and process improvement initiatives as assigned.
• Administrator for the Project Management (PM) Database.
• Reports portfolio schedule progress and management risks and makes recommendations for mitigating risks.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Sounds like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Required Skills:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in office management or project coordination
• Minimum 3 years of experience in SAP.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Microsoft Office Package, including word processing, spreadsheets, database, presentation software, electronic mail and scheduling.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
• Master's degree
• Project Management experience
• Good reporting accuracy, attention to detail, legal reading comprehension, active listening, social perceptiveness, speaking and writing abilities.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Indoor work, operating computer, manual dexterity, talking, hearing, repetitive motion. Use of personal computing equipment, telephone, multi-functioning printer and calculator.
• Ability to travel to and from meetings, training sessions or other business-related events.
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.