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Company: Kelly Services
Location: North Chicago, IL
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board

Description

Ready, set, go! Put your career in motion with a great, new opportunity. Join the Kelly® Professional & Industrial team as a Project Coordinator I with one of the best industries in the world for sustainable energy. 
 
Why you should apply to be a Project Coordinator I: 
Pay Rate: $26.50/hrs.  on W2
Employment Type: Long term temp, Temp to hire    
Location: North Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Schedule: First shift hours- Monday-Friday (8am – 5pm)

Note: Hybrid (in office Tuesday-Thursday)

 
 
What a typical day as a Project Coordinator I might look like: 

  • Coordinate, oversee, and track opportunity activities and tasks to ensure deadlines and expectations are met, manage opportunity transfer/turnover packages and updates between stakeholders, business, and BTS, coordinate workshops and meetings for EPP opportunities and ISTs, prepare reports and presentations for portfolio meetings, collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, communicate and share draft work with leaders and stakeholders along the way, provide regular updates to stakeholders, team, and leadership as needed, take calculated risks, embrace failure, and learn from the experience, and deliver results according to established and agreed-upon plans.

This job might be an outstanding fit if you:  
  • Manages the development and implementation process of the company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.
  • Estimates project levels of effort and resource requirements by using standard estimating techniques and tools, and by working with appropriate staff to understand scope of effort.
  • Prepares project plans, schedules and budgets by using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and by working with appropriate staff to understand tasks necessary to complete project.
  • Directs project execution by assigning tasks, tracking project schedules, identifying risks, and developing and executing contingency plans.
  • Assures project quality by using standard development methodologies and by working with SQA to develop and execute project quality plans.
  • Communicates project status by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.
  • Resolves project issues by working with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.
  • Consults with internal project groups by sharing project management knowledge and assisting or mentoring more junior project leaders in project management processes and techniques.

Skills and Qualifications:
  • Working technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices and procedures.
  • General understanding of business unit/group function.
  • Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
  • Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
  • Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
  • Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
  • Has a broad knowledge of technical alternatives and an understanding of their impact on the systems environment.

Qualifications:
  • GED or Associate with project coordination skills or
  • Bachelor's degree plus 0-2 years of related work experience with a good understanding of specified functional area, or Master's degree with 0-3 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

What happens next: 
Helping you discover what's next in your career is what we're all about, so let's get to work. Apply to be a Project Coordinator I today! 
 
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As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Put your skills to work.

There are a lot of different light industrial jobs out there. Kelly® Professional & Industrial recruiters are focused on only offering opportunities with companies that provide competitive pay, safe work environments, and cultures that recognize your value. Whether you're looking for flexible shifts, performance bonuses, or a progressive work culture—we're dedicated to finding the very best opportunities for you.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.


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