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About The Position

Requirements

• 3+ years managing multiple concurrent projects in custom fabrication, industrial manufacturing, job-shop production, construction, or a similar environment.
• Degree in mechanical engineering, mathematics, or similar area of study, or 7+ years practical experience.
• Comfortable working in and around a shop environment.
• Operates independently and brings problems to leadership already on a path to resolution.
• Able to run focused, productive meetings with a clear agenda, decisions made, and respected time.
• Comfortable holding peers accountable across departments.
• Customer-facing presence: comes prepared, answers questions on the spot, and represents the company well.
• Ability to read and discuss fabrication drawings, customer specifications, and technical documents.
• Disciplined and reliable project record keeping that reflects reality and the team can trust.
• Working knowledge of MS365 (Excel, Outlook, Word, SharePoint, Teams).
• Able to navigate ERP systems e.g., JobBOSS.

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of relevant project management experience.
• Experience with ASME pressure vessels, API 650 tanks, or AWS structural welding code work.
• Experience with custom/one-off fabrication versus high-volume production.
• Background in chemical processing, energy, water treatment, or similar end markets.

Responsibilities

• Drive every project from PO award through final delivery, keeping customers informed, internal teams aligned, and ship dates intact.
• Serve as the customer's main point of contact after PO award, communicating progress, issues, change orders, and delivery timing clearly and professionally.
• Send regular updates with project photos.
• Maintain the project-level schedule, including customer milestones, drawing release dates, fabrication start, and target ship dates, updating it weekly.
• Track every job in flight through PRE FAB, FIT, TESTING, and FINISHING stages to know the status of each tank.
• Lead internal project meetings with a clear agenda, decisions made, action items with owners and due dates, and follow-up communication issued the same day.
• Lead recurring customer project reviews, understanding customer priorities and presenting progress, milestones, and changes with clarity and confidence.
• Defend the customer-promised ship date by coordinating with production, engineering, and QC.
• Work with internal teams to resolve issues and bring problems to leadership with a path to resolution.
• Stay on top of all inputs affecting a tank's timeline, including materials, drawings, QC schedules, and vendor deliveries.
• Coordinate change orders, working with Sales and Operations to determine and communicate the impact on cost and schedule.
• Surface risks early to the team internally and to customers when needed.
• Coordinate trucking and shipping logistics as projects approach completion.
• Maintain accurate, organized records, including trackers, customer correspondence, milestone dates, and change orders.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Vacation, sick, and holiday pay