Project Manager

Our client is seeking a highly driven Project Manager to lead complex, custom-engineered product programs from order receipt through delivery and project closeout. The ideal candidate combines strong project management discipline, customer-facing communication skills, and cross-functional leadership to ensure successful execution of engineered-to-order products within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Execution

• Lead end-to-end execution of custom-engineered projects from purchase order through shipment, delivery, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, milestones, risk registers, and project documentation.
• Manage project scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and change control activities across multiple concurrent projects.
• Drive alignnment across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and quality teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide regular project updates, milestone communications, risk reviews, and issue resolution.
• Manage customer documentation, RFIs, submittals, approvals, and project communications.
• Maintain strong customer relationships through proactive communication and execution.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate activities across engineering, operations, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, and quality teams.
• Support project reviews, milestone events, factory readiness activities, and customer acceptance processes.
• Ensure documentation, specifications, drawings, and approvals are properly maintained and controlled.

Financial & Change Management

• Track budgets, schedules, and project performance metrics.
• Manage scope changes, schedule impacts, and cost implications through structured change control processes.
• Help protect project profitability through proactive risk identification and mitigation.

Continuous Improvement

• Support ongoing development of project management best practices, tools, and processes.
• Capture lessons learned and recommend improvements to project execution methodologies.

Qualifications

Required

• 2+ years of project management experience within engineered products, capital equipment, manufacturing, or industrial systems environments.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a customer-facing environment.
• Strong project scheduling, communication, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and project scheduling software.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, and commercial teams.

Preferred

• Experience in engineered-to-order manufacturing, industrial equipment, HVAC, mechanical systems, or capital equipment industries.
• Familiarity with ERP or CRM systems.
• Experience reviewing engineering drawings and technical documentation.
• PMP certification or formal project management training