<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Trillium Flow Technologies, founded on a legacy of premier products and services, provides mission-critical valves, pumps, and aftermarket services for core societal infrastructure that includes water and wastewater, power generation including nuclear power, food and beverage, oil and gas equipment and general industry. Trillium is very customer centric to meet specific needs, provides innovative engineering design with a global footprint that is focused on meeting our customers’ original equipment and aftermarket needs.
Trillium Pumps Italy is looking for a Project Planner
Purpose of Role:
The Project Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and delivery timelines. On-time delivery is the main metric. This role requires strong analytical skills, effective communication, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams to support project execution and performance tracking, from Order-entry phase through Engineering to Execution activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Including but not limited to:
- Develop the Initial Project Schedule aligned with scope and budget.
Translate the scope and customer requirements into a realistic, structured project plan.
Define key milestones: design release, customer approvals, procurement start, FAT, etc.
Use inputs from engineering and project managers to identify dependencies and durations.
- Support Engineering Breakdown, structured and visible.
Work closely with engineering leads to break down the design scope into manageable tasks sequenced logically with assigned realistic durations
- Coordinate Cross-Functional Alignment to set clear expectations from day one.
Align the schedule with procurement, manufacturing, and quality from the start.
Facilitate early kick-off meetings to bring all teams onto the same timeline.
- Milestone and Gate Planning for progress checks and decision-making.
Identify and formalize engineering gates
Support the PM in integrating these into broader project milestones (FAT, shipment, etc.).
- Baseline and Track Early Progress
Create the initial project baseline to track deviations.
Start monitoring progress from engineering kickoff — not just production.
- Drive Follow-Up and Accountability
Support project managers by ensuring weekly or biweekly follow-ups on engineering progress.
Keep tasks updated, flag overdue items, and escalate early.
- Support Change Control, plan remains a living, accurate tool — not a static document.
Help track changes to scope or schedule during the engineering phase.
Ensure changes are reflected in the schedule and assessed for impact on downstream tasks.
Education and Qualifications:
Educational background in technical school or a bachelor’s degree. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in Planning, Supply Chain, or Project Management is required. Knowledge of the English language, as well as a grade of familiarity with the SAP ERP system, excellent interpersonal skills, punctuality and precision and ability to work to targets and deadlines, good knowledge of computer tools and available for intra-company trips.
Computer Skills:
ERP, Excel, MS office
Core Competencies:
Analytical
Problem Solving
Oral Communication
Written Communication
Teamwork
<span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Trillium Flow Technologies is committed to an inclusive workplace, including hiring and retaining diverse talent. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and it is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Trillium Flow is a background screening, drug-free workplace.
