21-054 - Project Coordinator

Number of Vacancies: 1

Duration: 12 months

Location: Pickering

Job Overview

• Carry out collaborative activities with experts and development teams that translate into an active pipeline of technology, experiences and projects.
• Carry out surveys to establish data. As required, assist in the preparation and presentation of information packages and in the provision of advice and assistance regarding various administrative/technical aspects of the programs.
• Provide effective recommendations with respect to the assessment of ideas, technologies and products that contribute to the innovation strategy.
• Coordinate Enterprise Innovation pitch competition, summits and external events to promote product concepts, development and disseminate appropriate information.
• Receive assignments from the Supervisor with general discussion on approach and potential problem areas.
• Carry out investigations, and identify and assemble all the necessary materials.
• Carry out analyses of results, including cost/benefit analyses, and make effective recommendations with respect to commitment of finances towards program(s) and/or products(s).
• Prepare reports on results, analyses and recommendations, and submit to the Supervisor for review. Assist in the preparation of final program proposals.
• Monitor project and report to Supervisor, at the project level.

Qualifications

• Requires a knowledge of engineering, sciences, or business administration to demonstrate and apply sound conceptual and analytical thinking skills.
• Must have advanced Excel and Access experience.
• Requires a knowledge of computers and computer applications/software to facilitate business operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to effectively communicate with others.
• Requires knowledge of physics, engineering, mathematics and chemistry as related to design requirements stress, materials and total system performance for proposed major facilities and components.
• This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired either through the successful completion of a four year university education in engineering, or by having the equivalent lever of education.