Project Manager

About the role

Meyer Utility Structures is searching for a Project Manager to lead customer projects from design through fabrication and delivery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The role serves as a primary point of contact for customers while coordinating closely with engineering, operations, and logistics.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams.
• Develop and manage project schedules from design through shipment.
• Identify schedule risks and work with teams to develop mitigation plans.
• Author and manage change orders, including schedule and project scope impacts.
• Provide regular project status updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Cookordinate engineering deliverables, drawing approvals, and releases to the plant.
• Ensure the delivery of designs and drawings adhere to the project schedule.
• Work closely with Engineering to resolve design-related schedule impacts.
• Possess a basic understanding of cost drivers within structure designs.
• Able to read fabrication drawings for steel structures.
• Provide input on scheduling priorities for fabrication and customer delivery.
• Partner with operations, outsourcing, and logistics teams to support on-time delivery.
• Ensure the plant fabricates and delivers product on time to customers.
• Assist in continuous improvements in plant performance.
• Engage directly with plant operations through periodic Gemba walks and shop floor reviews to verify product status, understand constraints, and support on-time delivery commitments.
• Assist with or manage post-sales field repairs.
• Work with the Project Administrator (PA) to ensure project data is captured accurately.
• Ensure project dates and statuses are accurately maintained and communicated.
• Work collaboratively across functions to resolve conflicts and align priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of two (2) years of technical and customer account administration experience.
• More than two (2) years of managing large projects or multiple projects in parallel preferred.
• Experience in manufacturing or complex engineered-to-order industries preferred.
• Basic understanding of legal terms and language pertaining to supply contracts preferred.
• Working knowledge of the utility industry preferred.
• Communication skills to provide directions to team members and build customer relationships.
• Ability to manage expectations within a project and communicate them to all stakeholders.
• Acts with integrity when managing customer expectations and internal commitments.
• Works collaboratively across functions to resolve conflicts and align priorities.
• Maintains accountability and professionalism under pressure.
• Ownership of outcomes when driving solutions.