Senior Project Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Manager Project Manager is responsible for designing, leading, and continuously improving the way OsecoElfab delivers customer-driven, engineered-to-order projects across the US and UK. This role owns the project delivery framework—processes, tools, governance, and cross-functional coordination—while also managing a portfolio of strategic customer projects as a hands-on Project Manager. This leader ensures that projects move seamlessly through Sales, Engineering, Planning, Operations, and Quality, delivering on customer requirements with precision, speed, and exceptional communication.

Project Delivery Leadership

• Own and continuously improve the global project delivery process, including workflows, stage gates, documentation, and governance.
• Ensure consistent execution of customer-driven projects across Tulsa, the UK, and other global sites.
• Develop and maintain project KPIs (OTD, cycle time, margin performance, customer satisfaction) and drive accountability across functions.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Sales to resolve bottlenecks, improve throughput, and enhance cross-functional alignment.

Hands-On Project Management

• Manage a portfolio of complex, high-visibility customer projects from order acceptance through shipment.
• Serve as the primary customer contact for project scope, schedule, communication, and risk management.
• Cookordination engineering deliverables, production schedules, testing, and documentation requirements.
• Ensure projects meet technical specifications, regulatory requirements, and internal quality standards.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and mentor Project Coordinators, assigned Project Managers, or cross-functional project contributors (depending on structure).
• Build capability in project planning, communication, risk management, and customer engagement.
• Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Process, Systems & Tools

• Implement and optimize project management tools (Click-Up, ERP, CRM, dashboards, templates, workflows).
• Standardize documentation, communication protocols, and customer-facing project materials.
• Drive adoption of best practices in project planning, scheduling, and change control.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a senior escalation point for customer project issues.
• Support Sales and Marketing with project insights, feasibility assessments, and customer communication strategies.
• Represent Project Operations in cross-functional leadership forums.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Project governance and process design
• Technical aptitude and engineering literacy
• Customer-centric communication
• Cross-functional leadership
• Situational Leadership Skills
• Risk management and decision-making
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Data-driven performance management

Education And Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in project management within manufacturing, engineered-to-order products, or industrial equipment.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional project delivery processes.
• Strong understanding of engineering workflows, production planning, and quality systems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex customer projects with technical requirements.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Experience

• In pressure relief devices, process safety, industrial equipment, or adjacent technical industries.
• PMP, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.
• Experience leading multi-site or global project teams.
• ERP/CRM proficiency (e.g., D365, Salesforce).
• Productivity and project management platform software experience (e.g., ClickUP, MS Project).