Senior Project Manager - Mechanical

RK Industries, LLC

$90K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of relevant experience in project management and mechanical builds.
  • Master's degree or equivalent in a related field preferred.
  • Proficient in ERP and project management software including Viewpoint and Bluebeam.
  • Strong leadership skills with a focus on team building and development.
  • Expertise in contract negotiation and management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead daily operations for staff teams across assigned projects.
  • Oversee project documentation to mitigate claims and protect company interests.
  • Manage and finalize project budgets while maintaining cost control.
  • Conduct pre-construction turnover meetings for project readiness.
  • Coordinate procurement processes for materials and equipment to meet project timelines.
  • Develop and oversee billing schedules to ensure timely cash flow management.
  • Train and develop a high-performance operations team.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative and high-impact projects.
  • Collaborative team culture focused on safety and growth.
  • Access to ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
Full Job Description
Description

Looking to lead high-impact projects with a top-tier Mechanical team? We're hiring a Senior Project Manager to drive complex mechanical builds from concept to completion. If you're a proven leader with strong field experience, budget savvy, and a passion for collaboration, this is your chance to shape the future of construction. Join a team that values innovation, safety, and growth.

Position Summary
  • Manage and supervise day-to-day operations of staff teams on assigned projects.
  • Initiate, review and oversee required project administration and documentation to avoid claims and protect the best interest of RK Mechanical, Inc. and our client.
  • Ensure contract agreements are expeditiously secured, reviewed, processed and executed.
  • Review, edit, finalize and distribute project budget.
  • Conduct pre-construction turnover meetings for all assigned projects.
  • Ensure required permits and/or licenses are obtained and posted.
  • Initiate setup, monitoring and updating of project scheduling.
  • Coordinate required procurement of materials and equipment with purchasing agent, with emphasis on buyout plan to meet, or improve on, established schedule dates and budget cost.
  • Subcontract agreement negotiation, preparation, processing and execution.
  • Ensure required submittal review, processing and approvals, and submittal logs are set-up and maintained.
  • Develop, submit and obtain approval of billing schedule of values.
  • Maintain an over billed cash position, and request retention release bill-down/payments.
  • Collect payments, progress billing and retention receivables, on or before due dates.
  • Price, negotiate and process change condition and change order work.
  • Ensure assigned projects are properly staffed with appropriate field forces. This includes: 1) review, updating and approval of labor resource loading; and, 2) labor productivity.
  • Oversee tools and rental equipment use on all assigned projects. Ensure that any tools and rental equipment not required, or not being utilized, are returned immediately.
  • Responsible for overall financial performance of all assigned projects, including continual cost control, management and forecasting.
  • Prepare accurately, and submit on time, all required project monthly contract valuations.
  • Review, approve and process all subcontractor and supplier invoices.
  • Attend monthly project management meeting and respond to any questions associated with assigned projects.
  • Conduct regularly scheduled project staff meetings.

Role Responsibilities
  • Train and develop a high-performance Operations team.
  • Provides leadership for safety and team culture of operations team.
  • Provide the direction to create operations processes and procedures.
  • Implement project management programs including policies, practices, procedures, systems, and documentation.
  • Provides management of project accounting, project cost and trend reports, work-in-progress, productivity reporting, and monthly forecasts in conjunction with the business unit leadership.
  • Review and monitor the project management team preparation and setup of budgets, billings and change orders.
  • Manages and coordinates with subcontractors and suppliers.
  • Coordinate timely completion of procurement procedures in conjunction with the purchasing team.
  • Coordinate ordering, processing, and delivery of materials and equipment with vendors and central procurement personnel.
  • Responsible for initiating, overseeing, and verifying billings to maintain over-billed and over-cash positions.
  • Ensure turnover and pre-production planning meetings are conducted.
  • Ensure prompt review and processing of purchase orders, contracts and subcontract agreements.
  • Maintain exceptional owner, customer, engineer and vendor relationships.
  • Continuously improve procedures, productivity and efficiency utilizing input from the team members.
  • Support Account Executives with technical support and budget review.
  • Work with CAD/VDC personnel for project needs.
  • Manage projects through multi-discipline shop fabrication process.
  • Support Account Executives with technical support and budget review.
  • Coordinate production strategies with operations management and production teams.
  • Has deep multi- disciplined experience in Project Management, Product Management, and Integration.
  • Leader with exceptional attention to detail, communication, administrative skills and work ethic.
  • Results orientated with ability to plan and deliver against deadlines
  • Experience in a fast-paced hands-on business environment with responsibility for a team
  • Ability to negotiate critical and controversial issues with Company leadership
  • Ability to make authoritative decisions and recommendations having significant impact on the Company
  • Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing and guiding extensive programs and activities of importance
  • Experience with ERP and project management systems; including Viewpoint, Bluebeam and CAD/VDC systems

Qualifications
  • Responsible for one or more programs/functions of such diversity and scope to be of critical importance to overall company objectives.
  • Negotiates critical and controversial issues with top-level employees and officers.
  • Plays a role in company business strategy development and execution.
  • Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations having significant impact on extensive and related activities of the company.
  • Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing and guiding extensive programs and activities of importance.
  • Manages autonomous individuals, managers and diverse groups giving broader direction.
  • Expert in field, extensive relevant experience, 15+ years.
  • Masters or college/university graduate or equivalent combination of skills and experience generally required.


Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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