Project Coordinator – Electric Power

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About EPD

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Job Summary
The Project Coordinator supports project planning and controls activities across the project lifecycle. This role partners with project managers and cross-functional teams to maintain project schedules, collect and analyze project data, facilitate project control meetings, and communicate project health and progress. The Project Coordinator helps ensure projects are executed efficiently by monitoring schedules, supporting reporting processes, and maintaining accurate project information within established tools and systems.

What You Will Do

• Coordinate with project managers and team members to collect project status updates and maintain accurate project schedules.

• Update and manage project plans using Microsoft Project and related project management tools.

• Facilitate project controls meetings and communicate project health, schedule performance, and progress updates.

• Assist with monitoring project timelines, milestones, budgets, and key performance metrics.

• Support opportunity planning and project forecasting activities through timeline and project review meetings.

• Analyze project data and prepare reports and presentations for project teams and leadership.

• Monitor data quality within project systems and support data cleaning and harmonization efforts.

• Identify project risks, scheduling concerns, and potential impacts to delivery and communicate findings to stakeholders.

• Provide support and training to project teams on project planning, controls processes, and reporting tools.

Degree Requirement

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field; or equivalent project planning/project controls experience.

What You Will Have

• Tactical/Strategic Planning: Working knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

  • Maintains and updates project schedules to support project execution and delivery objectives.

  • Monitors project progress against established plans and identifies schedule variances.

  • Collaborates with project teams to adjust schedules and support changing business priorities.

• Effective Communications: Working knowledge and understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

  • Facilitates project control meetings and communicates project status to stakeholders.

  • Creates clear reports, presentations, and project updates to support decision-making.

  • Collaborates with project managers and team members to ensure accurate and timely information sharing.

• Data Gathering and Reporting: Basic understanding and knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

  • Collects and validates project status, schedule, and performance data from multiple sources.

  • Utilizes project management and reporting to