Project Coordinator

Northland Controls is seeking a Project Coordinator in Reston, Virginia. 

The role of the Project Coordinator is to provide full support to the Program and Project Managers by working closely to support action plans, resources, time frames, budgets for projects. Coordination of various tasks such as scheduling, administrative duties, maintaining project documentation, handling financial and general queries. To succeed in the role, excellent communication and time management skill are essential to success.

What type of candidate Northland is looking for

We strive to find the right kind of people, who respect the Northland way; they will emphasize taking on challenges, working hard, learning fast, and maintaining embracing accountability, all while having fun! Our culture and team are some of our strongest assets. We want to employ happy people, who bring a positive and energetic attitude to not only their work and the work environment. 

What you will love about this job

You will be working for an amazing company that employs the most exceptional type of people. Our customers are worldwide, large corporate companies.

Qualifications:

• Ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedule and step by step action plans.
• Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft products (Work, Excel, Planner, Project).
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating project schedules, resources, equipment documentation and information
• Liaising with clients to identify and define project requirements, scope and objectives
• Ensuring clients’ needs are met as project evolves
• Assists in preparing action plans using resources from time and budget projects
• Ensuring all projects are completed on time, within budget and with high quality standards
• Assist in monitoring the project progress and respond to issues as they arise
• Act as a point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
• Work with project and program managers to eliminate project blockers
• Use tools to monitor working hours, plans and expenses/expenditures
• Create and maintain project documentation, plans and reports
• Ensure standards and requirement are met through conducting quality assurance tests
• Other duties as assigned.

Northland is a world-class global security integrator with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, China and India. We specialize in design, build, integration, and management of high-end Lenel, Software House, S2 global enterprise security systems which include 6 out of 10 of the largest hi-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

We are responsible for single card reader installations in some of the most remote parts of the world, all the way through to the design, deployment and management of large enterprise systems managing up to 300 corporate offices in over 70 countries including datacenters and multi-faceted security operations centers.

With 250 highly trained professionals, all program management, project management, system design, system programming, testing and commissioning is carried out by Northland Controls experts to ensure we deliver the right solution, to the rig