Project Coordinator - PLM Implementation
TLDR
Coordinate an enterprise PLM implementation through governance, vendor collaboration, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and cross-functional delivery.
We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Project Coordinator to initially support the implementation of a new enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. Reporting to the Program Management Office, the successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating project activities, maintaining governance processes, supporting stakeholder engagement, and ensuring project information is accurate, current, and accessible.
This position is ideal for an individual with 3-6 years of project coordination or PMO support experience who thrives in cross-functional environments and enjoys bringing structure, organization, and accountability to complex business and technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Project Coordination & Governance
- Support the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
- Track progress against project objectives and communicate schedule impacts or delays.
- Maintain project action item, decision, risk, and issue logs, ensuring timely follow-up and escalation where required.
- Assist project and workstream leads with planning, status updates, governance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support preparation and coordination of program reviews, milestone reviews, and program governance meetings.
- Coordinate project meetings, workshops, working sessions, and leadership reviews.
- Prepare agendas, capture meeting minutes, document decisions, and communicate follow-up actions.
- Assist with project communications, presentations, executive updates, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Facilitate collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, operations, IT, quality, supply chain, and business teams.
- Coordinate activities with vendors, implementation partners, and consultants, including tracking commitments and deliverables.
- Support change management, user engagement, communication campaigns, training coordination, and adoption activities.
- Collect project performance data and maintain project dashboards and reporting tools.
- Prepare weekly and monthly status reports, executive summaries, milestone updates, and performance metrics.
- Manage project repositories and document control processes to ensure information is organized and accessible.
Stakeholder, Team & Vendor Coordination
Reporting & Documentation Management
Qualifications & Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Operations Management, or a related field. Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- 3-6 years of experience in project coordination, project administration, PMO support, or project management support roles.
Key Competencies
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
- Experience supporting PLM, ERP, MES, engineering systems, or other enterprise transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of project coordination practices, project lifecycle methodologies, and governance processes.
- Ability to influence and coordinate across teams without direct authority
- Previous experience working with external vendors, consultants, and implementation partners.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in preparing project reports, presentations, meeting documentation, and executive-level communications.
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency using MS Office products (MS Project, CoPilot, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
- Experience in using Smartsheet, and Oracle Primavera is considered an asset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
Security and Compliance Requirements
Working Environment
Telesat is a premier global satellite operator that has been delivering secure and reliable satellite communications solutions for over 55 years. With a focus on providing exceptional service to broadcast, telecommunications, corporate, and government customers, Telesat is set to launch its innovative Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network, Lightspeed, in 2027, which will transform broadband connectivity with high capacity, low latency, and fiber-like speeds.
- Founded
- Founded 1969
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Diversified Telecommunication Services
- Total raised
- $31M raised