Project Coordinator (Manufacturing Experience Required)

Project Coordinator

Location: Lititz, PA
Schedule: Full-time | Day Shift

For over 50 years, Fluid Conditioning Products (FCP) has been a trusted, family-owned manufacturer of precision filtration and fluid control solutions serving aerospace, defense, and naval markets. We are seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to help keep customer jobs moving smoothly from order through production by coordinating across sales, purchasing, and manufacturing.

This position serves as a central point of communication and follow-through across the organization. The ideal candidate understands a manufacturing environment, is highly organized, and can keep multiple jobs on track by monitoring status, identifying roadblocks, leading regular meetings, and ensuring the right people have the information they need.

What You'll Do

• Coordinate customer jobs across sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and other internal teams.
• Track the status of active jobs and maintain clear visibility into where each job stands.
• Follow up with team members to confirm priorities, deadlines, materials, and next steps.
• Identify delays, missing information, and other issues that could prevent jobs from moving forward.
• Facilitate regular project and production status meetings and keep discussions focused on action items.
• Serve as a central point of communication, helping ensure updates and priorities are shared across departments.
• Document key decisions, action items, owners, and due dates, and follow through to completion.
• Coordinate with purchasing to monitor material availability and supplier-related timing that may affect production.
• Partner with sales to understand customer commitments, priorities, and changes that may affect job schedules.
• Work closely with manufacturing to understand production status, capacity considerations, and potential bottlenecks.
• Maintain organized project records, schedules, status updates, and other job-related documentation.
• Support continuous improvement efforts that strengthen communication, accountability, and workflow across departments.

What We're Looking For

• Prior experience coordinating projects, production, operations, or customer jobs in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple jobs and priorities at the same time.
• A proactive, follow-through mindset and comfort checking in with others to keep work moving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across different departments and levels of the organization.
• Confidence leading meetings, asking questions, clarifying ownership, and communicating next steps.
• Ability to recognize potential delays or roadblocks and bring the right people together to address them.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, production workflows, purchasing, and customer order fulfillment.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Excel and other business or ERP systems.
• Ability to work independently while building strong relationships with sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and leadership.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Several years of relevant manufacturing, project coordination, production coordination, or operations experience; this is not an entry-level role.
• Manufacturing experience required.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Job Type: Full-time, on-site

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including comprehensive health and dental insurance and 401(k) with company match.
• Stable day-shift schedule (no overnights).
• Supportive, collaborative team culture.
• Safe, well-maintained facility with a 50+ year track record of success.
• The reliability and care of a family-owned company that values quality, craftsmanship, and people.

Pay: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Experience:

• Project Coordination: 3 years (Required)
• Manufacturing: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: In person