Job Opening: Plastics Project Specialist Coordinator

We’re Hiring in South Dallas! 
Plastics Project Specialist Coordinator

Bring Your HDPE Plastics Expertise and Customer Satisfaction Skills to Employbridge!

Do you have experience in plastics customer service and are passionate about helping clients? Are you looking for a career that offers good pay, great benefits, and career progression? If so, you should join our talented team! We have an immediate opening for a Plastics (or similar industry) Project Specialist Coordinator to work in a professional and fast paced national leader of industrial HDPE pipeline products, natural gas meter sets, risers and electrofusion fittings office.

Pay and Schedule:

• Starting Pay Range is $28.85 an hour $60,000 annually to $33.65 an hour $70,000 annually
• Typical weekly hours are 6am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.

Summary of Role:

The Project Specialist is responsible for efficiently coordinating the supply of products and services for defined project business.  Project business consists of significant revenue opportunities with customers with specific commercial and/or technical arrangements.

This role exercises discretion and independent judgment in the performance of office work or works directly related to projects and/or Key Account customers.  Regularly and directly assists managers or exempt administrators or works under only general supervision while executing special assignments or performing specialized or technical work requiring special training, experience, and/or knowledge.  In addition, this position spends more than 50% of work time performing administrative duties.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Works effectively with company personnel, customers, and others by constructively and positively sharing ideas and listening to and objectively considering ideas and suggestions from others; keeping commitments; keeping others informed of work progress, timetables, and issues; addressing problems and issues constructively to find mutually acceptable and practical business solutions; addressing others by name, title or other respectful identifiers, and; respecting the diversity of our workforce in actions, words, and deeds.
• Production Planning to communicate current and upcoming projects.
• Supply chain to ensure transparency of product needs and precise scheduling of incoming orders.
• Assembly and Custom Products to understand capacity and utilization rates.
• Machine Service to coordinate fusion machine and accessory needs.
• Maintain the project schedules, and reports and communicate with the project team, risk.
• Lead and support project teams comprised of diverse, cross-functional members, potentially including numerous outside vendors and spanning multiple geographic locations, includes leading project kick-off meetings as necessary.
• Contribute to a high-performing, highly motivated, collaborative team environment of trust, empowerment, accountability, and recognition.
• Manage projects that can range in scope from low complexity to significant growth breakthrough opportunities managed domestically.
• Maintain a sense of urgency, facilitate problem-solving sessions and meetings to address obstacles, and hold team members accountable to program commitments.
• Maintain precise forms of project communication that can be used throughout various levels of the organization, ranging from individual project contributors to senior leadership.
• Participate in Production meetings as required.
• Committed to the protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and neighbors. Responsible for maintaining and continuously improving our Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Internal communication is extensive personal and telephone contact with Production Planning, Supply Chain, Assembly, External Sales, Global Industries, Customer Service, Technical Service, and Machine Service.
• External communication is contact with customers to communicate project schedule and product availability.

Employbridge Offers the following Benefits and more:

• Excellent competitive pay
• Weekly Pay every Friday on direct deposit or VISA pay card.
• Award Winning Mobile App for work status and pay stubs
• Medical & Dental insurance options
• Retirement Savings plan with match
• Free on-line learning Academy through Foster Penn
• Employee Assistance Program
• REFERRAL BONUSES – Refer-A-Friend
• Recognition programs
• Working Advantage Discount Program from movie tickets to automobiles and everything in between.  Help you get the MOST for your well-earned dollar
• Discounted mobile phone plan from nationwide top provider
• Career and job counseling from our professional recruitment team

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience required 
• Updated resume required for serious consideration for this role
• 3 or more years in related product or industry preferred
• SAP experience, a plus
• Proficient personal computer skills; familiar with Microsoft Office a plus
• Passing a company post-employment physical, controlled substance testing and background criminal check
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Ability to efficiently multi-task and meet deliverables, even under pressure
• Creative and critical thinking with strong attention to detail
• Ability to understand and utilize MRP systems
• Professional attitude and appearance
• Superior analytical skills
• Ability to work collaboratively on a team
• Ability to travel on a limited basis
• Standing and Stooping
• Must be able to talk and hear
• Sitting more than 1/3 of the time
• Reaching with hands and arms
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel over 2/3 of the time
• Ability to lift up to 40 pounds

APPLY TODAY IF YOU ARE THIS PERSON! Work for Employbridge aka ProLogistix, a company Clearly Rated named a “best in class” employer!

Working For Employbridge

Employbridge is a nationwide professional staffing firm with more than 50 years of recruiting and selection expertise to match job candidates with positions where they will succeed. The nation’s largest industrial staffing company with over 400 locations, finding your ideal job opportunity has never been easier. Through our extensive network of clients, we can introduce you to a variety of administrative, clerical or light industrial opportunities. We’re dedicated to getting good people good jobs.