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Project Planner

Sterling Engineering
  • Itasca, IL
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    Job Description

    Are you the person everyone relies on to keep projects on track?



    Please make sure you read the following details carefully before making any applications.

    Growing manufacturer of engineered equipment is seeking a Project Planner to play a key role in coordinating production schedules, resources, and project timelines. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact by ensuring complex projects move efficiently from planning through production and shipment.


    If you enjoy solving scheduling challenges, collaborating across departments, and building detailed project plans in Microsoft Project, we'd love to talk.


    What You'll Do

    • Develop and maintain production schedules using Microsoft Project
    • Create and manage Gantt charts to keep projects on schedule
    • Coordinate production timelines for equipment assembly projects
    • Work closely with engineering, production, purchasing, project management, and vendors to ensure materials and resources are available when needed
    • Support resource planning and production capacity planning
    • Monitor project milestones and proactively identify scheduling conflicts or delays
    • Coordinate shipment timing to meet customer project deadlines
    • Communicate schedule updates across multiple departments to keep projects moving


    What We're Looking For

    • Bachelor's degree in a technical field
    • Microsoft Project experience is required
    • Strong experience creating and managing Gantt charts
    • Experience with production planning, scheduling, or manufacturing operations
    • Excellent organizational xxzpjkt and communication skills
    • Comfortable working with multiple departments in a fast-paced manufacturing environment


    Why Consider This Opportunity?

    • Be part of projects you can see come to life on the production floor
    • Work in a collaborative environment where your planning directly impacts project success
    • Opportunity to grow your career with an established, expanding manufacturer
    • High visibility role with cross-functional interaction and real ownership

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationItasca, IL
    IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
    Company Size500 to 999 employees
    Year Founded1969
    Websitehttp://www.sterling-engineering.com

    About Company

    Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:

     

    • Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.

     

    • Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.

     

    Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.

    Skills

    • Assembly Equipmentunmatched
    • Calendar Managementunmatched
    • Capacity Managementunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Manufacturingunmatched
    • Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
    • Microsoft Projectunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Procurement Managementunmatched
    • Production Planningunmatched
    • Production Scheduleunmatched
    • Project Planningunmatched
    • Project Scheduleunmatched
    • Project Trackingunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched

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