Pros
The work is straightforward, procedural and mostly administrative in nature. PCs work on a lot of projects at once and have to be pretty good at multitasking. PCs take care of almost every administrative & contract compliance aspect of a construction project. It’s an important job for the progress of the project and for building relationships with other companies, and it feels good to be able to solve the many issues and clear the roadblocks that come up every day. The office team of project coordinators is supportive and helpful and has a good knowledge base for one another to rely on. There seems to be a lot of room for career advancement if you have a construction management degree (I don’t) and you are reasonably passionate about the industry (which is growing and profitable). PTO is good. Retirement benefits are good. The stock ownership program seems very strong if you plan to work here a long time.
Cons
At least in my office, the PCs are also the ones responsible for answering the office phone, cleaning the kitchen, stocking the snacks, ordering food, and sorting the mail. Not really objectionable work, but you will hear about it if you don’t stay on top of it in addition to your actual project work, which has deadlines and can pile up quickly. The PCs in my office have to handle all the state wage and diversity reporting for each project which could be its own full time job (and in fact it is a separate dept/position in other JED offices). The role seems undervalued from a culture standpoint and I feel like an overlooked, invisible member of my project teams most of the time, except when sudden critical deadlines pop up and everything cascades down to the PCs desk with no warning. The position is hourly and I feel an inordinate amount of scrutiny on how my time is accounted for despite my clear work ethic. The role doesn’t pay enough. There was no negotiation room for compensation during the hiring process and I struggle to make ends meet. The effort:reward ratio is not good. I feel like 75k would be better justified but I was told by their talent acquisition person at the offer that my 60k offer was one of the highest he’d seen for this position. The office struggles to keep the Project Coordinator positions filled. They should have 5 or 6 but only have 3, and have not been able to attract applicants since my hire. All the current PCs are overworked. Work from home is restricted to one day a week, for no apparent reason other than middle management control, despite the fact that we are arguably more productive at home. And when we do work from home, our performance is micromanaged through Microsoft Teams metric rather than any actual work done. Health insurance through this company is expensive.