Job Description
Title: Senior Project Coordinator – Precast/Prestressed Concrete
Location: Westmont IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $70-75k
Position Summary
Our client is seeking a Senior Project Coordinator to manage complex precast and prestressed concrete projects from initial design through fabrication and erection. This position serves as a key liaison among Sales, Engineering, Project Management, customers, contractors, owners, and erectors.
The ideal candidate has extensive precast or prestressed concrete experience, advanced AutoCAD or Revit skills, and the ability to coordinate multiple technical projects while maintaining schedule, budget, quality, and contractual requirements.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate projects from concept through fabrication, delivery, and erection.
- Review estimates, contracts, drawings, specifications, addenda, and related documents.
- Prepare and coordinate piece drawings ahead of scheduled production dates.
- Perform final reviews to ensure drawings and project documents are accurate and consistent.
- Monitor schedules, budgets, assigned hours, production deadlines, and team performance.
- Coordinate project teams, workloads, priorities, and deliverables.
- Communicate with customers, contractors, owners, erectors, and internal departments.
- Monitor jobsite progress and address field concerns or potential project risks.
- Compare developing projects against bid estimates and identify material or quantity deviations.
- Coordinate embed plates, loose materials, and department supplies needed for fabrication and assembly.
- Develop project details that reduce costs and improve production efficiency.
- Establish and improve standard details, procedures, and project workflows.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate errors and streamline project execution.
- Lead, coach, and mentor junior coordinators and technical team members.
Qualifications
- Seven to ten years of relevant precast or prestressed concrete experience.
- Associate or technical degree in Architectural, Civil, Industrial, or Structural Engineering preferred. Eight or more years of equivalent experience will also be considered.
- Advanced proficiency with AutoCAD or Revit.
- Experience reviewing construction drawings, specifications, contracts, and estimates.
- Understanding of precast fabrication, erection, piece drawings, embeds, and related materials.
- Working knowledge of applicable building codes and industry standards.
- Strong project-management, planning, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple technical projects and competing deadlines.
- Experience monitoring project schedules, budgets, hours, and material quantities.
- Strong communication, leadership, mentoring, and problem-solving abilities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and document-management systems.
- AutoCAD, Revit, or Autodesk certification preferred but not required.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Westmont, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $70,000–$75,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://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
- Architectural Servicesunmatched
- AutoCADunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Building Codesunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Construction Drawingsunmatched
- Contract Requirementsunmatched
- Contract Reviewunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Illustrating Abilityunmatched
- Industry Standardsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Pre-Stressed Concreteunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Production Costingunmatched
- Production Scheduleunmatched
- Project Designunmatched
- Project Developmentunmatched
- Project Estimatesunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Scheduleunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Coordinationunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Structural Engineeringunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
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