Mid-Level

Site Coordinator

You coordinate operations at a specific site — construction project, service-delivery location, event venue, institutional facility, or comparable operational setting — owning the on-site coordination work that ties multiple stakeholders, vendors, and operational streams together.

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What it's like

What it's like to be a Site Coordinator

A site coordinator's day moves across the site's active operational work and the people and partners who touch it — walking the site, sitting with operational leadership, fielding questions from vendors and stakeholders, coordinating across operational workstreams. Site operations quality and stakeholder coordination effectiveness anchor the operating measures.

The harder part is often the dependency-driven scheduling reality — site operations depend on vendors, contractors, internal teams, and stakeholders whose schedules don't always align, and coordinators navigate the dependencies while keeping the site's operational work moving. Variance across employers shapes the role: construction site coordinators run on project-delivery rhythms; event-site coordinators run on event-day production cycles; service-site coordinators run on operational-service-level expectations; institutional site coordinators run on the institution's operational rhythm.

It fits people organized through cross-functional coordination, comfortable in on-site environments, and steady through operational pressure that arrives from multiple directions. PMP, OSHA 30, and sector-specific credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the on-site requirement — site coordinators are present where the work happens, and the role's geography and lifestyle follow the site's operational location.

RelationshipsHigh
AchievementAbove avg
IndependenceAbove avg
Working ConditionsModerate
RecognitionModerate
SupportLower
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Site Coordinators (SOC 11-9031.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$37K–$96K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
72K
U.S. Employment
-2.5%
10yr Growth
6K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$74K$71K$68K$65K$62K201920202021202220232024$62K$74K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

CoordinationActive ListeningCritical ThinkingReading ComprehensionMonitoringSpeakingJudgment and Decision MakingComplex Problem SolvingSocial PerceptivenessService Orientation
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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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