Program Coordinator

About Us

Headquartered in Bennington, Vermont, we specialize in composite manufacturing and design engineering. Our team provides end-to-end capabilities — from design, prototyping, and tooling through production, testing, and certification of composite structures.

As an ISO AS9100 and Nadcap accredited supplier, Vermont Composites has earned industry recognition for quality and service. We partner with the world’s leading aerospace and defense prime contractors to deliver mission-critical composite structures across defense, commercial aerospace, and medical imaging applications.

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Job Summary

Overview: Strong background in product management, adept at negotiation, and capable of leading cross-functional teams to meet value stream objectives, with excellent communication, marketing, and technical skills, and proficiency in MS Office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops and executes negotiation and proposal plans and strategies for assigned projects in collaboration with value stream program manager
• Leads cross-functional project teams to identify execution roadblocks to ensure delivery of programmatic commitments
• Identifies issues, tracks progress, and ensures follows- through on corrective actions, DMRs and customer requests
• Organizes interdepartmental activities to ensure projects completion on schedule and within budget
• Prepares and presents project status reports to leadership as needed.
• Leads team in forecasting build plans, delivery plans and yearly value stream forecasts
• Reviews daily, weekly, and monthly customer commitments and works with operations managers and Production Control to track, schedule and drive production commitments through delivery
• Works with and attends customer meetings to support Program Manager with customer requests
• May be required to travel

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Possess exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey information clearly and effectively.
• Demonstrated relationship management, enabling the development and maintenance of strong, positive relationships with stakeholders, creating weekly delivery schedules and clearly communicating weekly goals
• Exhibit strong decision-making abilities, characterized by making sound, proactive choices that drive success
• Possess excellent negotiation skills, with a proven ability to achieve win-win solutions.
• Ability to evaluate quality of work product to ensure satisfaction of customer requirements
• Ability to identify issues, track progress, and follow through on effective corrective actions based on data analysis and trends
• Ability to lead teams in matrix organization to achieve schedule, cost, and technical performance objectives
• Ability to track work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet schedules
• Ability to understand and analyze value stream financial data.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of risk and opportunity management and ability to apply them to projects and suppliers
• Supports the development and execution bids through production execution

The hiring range for this position is $23.68 to $31.58 per hour, with compensation determined based on the selected candidate’s qualifications and relevant experience.

VERMONT COMPOSITES IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY MINORITY/FEMALE/INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES/PROTECTED VETERAN AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

Vermont Composites is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other protected characteristics protected by law. Vermont Composites and all its related companies fully endorse equal opportunity for all.

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