Project Manager

Equipment & Controls, Inc. • Wampum, PA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Equipment & Controls, Inc. (ECI), an Emerson Impact Partner serving industrial markets, is seeking a Project Manager in its PMO to lead complex, customer-facing industrial projects. The role owns delivery from proposal handoff through engineering, procurement, fabrication or integration, testing, site execution, commissioning, startup, and closeout. The Project Manager is accountable for project scope, schedule, cost, forecast, margin, risk, change control, customer communication, and overall project health across multiple concurrent projects.

The position combines strategic leadership and detailed execution. The Project Manager sets direction for cross-functional teams, makes timely decisions, anticipates risk, protects commercial outcomes, and removes obstacles that could affect customer commitments. The role is based in Lawrence, Pennsylvania, and may require travel to customer and project sites as needed.

ECI provides initial and ongoing training, work equipment, a competitive base salary and benefits package, and a retirement savings program that includes a 401(k) with company match and profit sharing. Salary is based on experience.

Requirements

• Progressive project-management experience, including direct ownership of industrial projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects in process manufacturing, industrial automation, controls, instrumentation, electrical systems, skid fabrication, or a related engineering or manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing projects through multiple lifecycle phases, including engineering, procurement, fabrication or integration, factory acceptance testing, site execution, commissioning, startup, and closeout.
• Comfort working with P&IDs and CAD or drawing software packages.
• Working knowledge of ASME, ANSI, NEC, and ISO standards.
• Direct accountability for project scope, schedule, budget, cost forecasting, risk, change management, customer communication, and project reporting.
• Strong understanding of project financials, contract and purchase-order alignment, change orders, invoicing milestones, and margin or profitability drivers.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and external partners without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical and commercial information to varied audiences.
• Ability to travel to customer and project sites as required for project execution, testing, commissioning, startup, and issue resolution.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience leading large, multi-discipline projects involving customers, engineering teams, vendors, subcontractors, and site personnel.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, IFS, Procore, SharePoint, or similar project-management and ERP systems.
• Experience with structured risk registers, change-control processes, earned-value or project-controls practices, and customer-facing project reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent industrial and process projects of varying size and complexity from kickoff through closeout.
• Establish project execution strategy, governance, communication cadence, milestones, deliverables, and decision-making structure.
• Validate customer expectations, proposal assumptions, scope, pricing, terms, schedule, and deliverables at handoff; identify gaps before execution.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing project leader and build trusted relationships with customers, internal leadership, engineers, technicians, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Own the integrated project schedule and coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing or fabrication, testing, installation, commissioning, and startup.
• Manage project budgets, cost forecasts, resource plans, invoicing schedules, margin performance, and financial projections; communicate variances and corrective actions early.
• Establish and maintain risk, issue, action, and change-control processes; quantify impacts, assign owners, track mitigation, and escalate when thresholds are exceeded.
• Evaluate scope changes for technical, schedule, cost, resource, and contractual impact; document decisions and update project baselines and forecasts after approval.
• Lead project reviews and status reporting to communicate progress, risks, decisions, commitments, and recovery actions to customers and management.
• Facilitate cross-functional problem solving and make timely tradeoff recommendations when priorities, resources, technical requirements, or customer expectations conflict.
• Coordinate factory acceptance testing, site installation, commissioning, startup, and issue resolution, including readiness planning and phase handoffs.
• Monitor project health and own recovery plans when projects are at risk of missing scope, schedule, budget, quality, or customer commitments.
• Complete project closeout, financial reconciliation, customer acceptance, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement actions.
• Contribute to project-management standards, estimating and handoff practices, resource planning, risk management, and team development.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and benefits package.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Profit sharing.
• Initial and ongoing training.
• Work equipment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level