Fabrication & Manufacturing Manager of Projects

About the Role

The Fabrication & Manufacturing Manager of Projects is responsible for the safe, profitable, and timely delivery of multiple projects executed across Loenbro's fabrication and manufacturing network. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, this role provides portfolio-level oversight while maintaining direct accountability for the performance of assigned internal Loenbro and external third-party projects.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Project Leadership:
  • Oversee a portfolio of fabrication and manufacturing projects of varying size, complexity, market, and location for internal Loenbro business units and external customers.
  • Provide end-to-end accountability from contract handoff through final delivery, closeout, warranty transition, and financial reconciliation.
  • Develop project execution plans defining scope, responsibilities, milestones, staffing, fabrication strategy, reporting cadence, risk controls, and success criteria.
  • Lead regular project reviews and provide accurate, timely reporting on safety, quality, schedule, cost, forecast, cash, risk, change, and customer commitments.
• Project Team Leadership:
  • Lead, assign, coach, and develop Project Engineers and other project personnel based on workload and project requirements.
  • Establish clear accountability for submittals, RFIs, document control, procurement tracking, production status, change documentation, cost reporting, and closeout.
  • Set consistent project-management expectations, tools, workflows, and reporting standards across the fabrication network.
  • Coordinate matrixed teams spanning estimating, engineering, operations, project controls, quality, safety, procurement, finance, logistics, and field operations.
• Safety, Quality & Operational Execution:
  • Own project-level safety performance and ensure planning and execution align with Loenbro requirements, customer expectations, and applicable regulations.
  • Partner with shop Operations to establish executable production plans, sequencing, work packages, hold points, inspection requirements, and shipment priorities.
  • Ensure contractual quality requirements, approved drawings, specifications, codes, procedures, inspection and test plans, traceability, and turnover documentation are integrated into execution.
  • Monitor productivity, throughput, rework, nonconformance, equipment constraints, shop loading, and capacity, implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Engineering & Technical Deliverable Management:
  • Identify, plan, and actively manage critical engineering deliverables required to release procurement and fabrication.
  • Maintain visibility of IFC drawings, models, calculations, specifications, design clarifications, customer approvals, submittals, RFIs, spool or shop drawings, bills of material, and revision status.
  • Lead engineering-readiness reviews and ensure only current, approved information is released to procurement and production.
  • Recognize design development issues and partner with Engineering & Productization to capture lessons learned and standardization opportunities.
• Procurement, Materials & Supply Chain:
  • Develop and manage procurement and material-status plans aligned with engineering releases, production need dates, and contractual milestones.
  • Identify long-lead, critical, owner-furnished, customer-supplied, and high-risk materials and drive timely resolution of constraints.
  • Coordinate requisitions, purchase orders, vendor data, expediting, inspection, logistics, receiving, material control, traceability, substitutions, and surplus disposition.
  • Validate material availability before work is released to prevent avoidable disruption.
• Schedule & Project Controls:
  • Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules covering all phases of project execution.
  • Establish baseline plans, measurable milestones, look-ahead schedules, critical-path visibility, and recovery strategies.
  • Perform variance, trend, and forecast analysis, and maintain disciplined project documentation.
• Financial & Commercial Management:
  • Own project financial performance, including budget, committed cost, actual cost, forecast at completion, revenue recognition inputs, billing, and cash collection support.
  • Review cost reports, explain variances, forecast outcomes accurately, and implement corrective actions to protect profitability.
  • Manage subcontractor and supplier commercial performance, commitments, invoices, accruals, and closeout.
• Change, Risk & Claims Management:
  • Establish and maintain project risk, opportunity, issue, and change logs from turnover through closeout.
  • Provide timely contractual notice, document cause, entitlement, cost, schedule, productivity, and cumulative impacts.
  • Prevent unauthorized work and ensure approved changes are communicated across functions.
• Customer & Stakeholder Management:
  • Serve as the primary project-delivery contact for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Set clear expectations, communicate candidly, manage commitments, and maintain trust through timely issue resolution.
  • Lead kickoff meetings, progress reviews, commercial discussions, and closeout meetings.
• Closeout & Continuous Improvement:
  • Drive timely completion of punch lists, turnover packages, as-builts, quality records, final billing, and archival requirements.
  • Conduct formal project closeout and lessons-learned reviews.
  • Support development of scalable project-delivery systems and governance for the Fabrication & Manufacturing business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive project management, project engineering, operations, or commercial experience in industrial fabrication, manufacturing, modular construction, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience concurrently managing multiple projects with direct accountability for safety, quality, schedule, cost, and customer delivery.
• Strong understanding of fabrication and manufacturing workflows, engineering deliverables, procurement, material controls, shop production, inspection, logistics, and turnover.
• Demonstrated financial acumen, including budgeting, cost reporting, forecasting, cash flow, revenue, margin, and work-in-progress analysis.
• Experience identifying, documenting, pricing, negotiating, and administering contract changes and claims.
• Ability to read and understand contracts, drawings, models, specifications, schedules, bills of material, and technical requirements.
• Experience leading project engineers and cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, problem-solving, planning, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with project-management, scheduling, cost-control, document-management, and collaboration systems.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly to fabrication facilities, project sites, vendors, and customer locations.
• Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), or relevant credential preferred.
• Experience with pipe fabrication, structural steel, electrical prefabrication, skids, modules, pressure equipment, high-purity systems, or integrated mechanical/electrical assemblies preferred.
• Experience serving both internal operating-company customers and external third-party clients within a centralized fabrication environment.