

Mechanical Project Manager
Actalent
Posted Friday, June 6, 2025
Posting ID: JP-005333116
Job Title: Mechanical Project Manager
Job Description
We are seeking a dedicated Mechanical Project Manager with a passion for successfully leading and executing engineering projects. This role requires a proactive individual who can manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they meet client objectives and are completed within scope, budget, and schedule.
Responsibilities
- Take full ownership of projects and work creatively to ensure their success.
- Monitor and direct work on multiple projects simultaneously, acting both as a lead engineer and project manager.
- Manage small to large projects with engineering budgets ranging from $500k to $80M.
- Oversee project schedules, scopes, and budgets, providing status reports to clients and senior management.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, offering solutions with minimal information.
- Lead internal and client meetings, both web-based and in-person.
- Develop and communicate weekly meeting agendas and minutes, addressing key project-related issues.
- Estimate project costs, including engineering, construction, equipment, and subcontractor expenses.
- Manage and de-escalate conflicts with clients and within the project team.
- Serve as the primary customer contact as a lead discipline engineer, demonstrating proficiency in your engineering discipline.
- Complete engineering calculations and demonstrate knowledge of relevant codes.
- Develop engineering documents according to industry, project, company, and client standards.
- Review drawings outside your discipline to ensure compatibility and prevent interferences.
- Interact effectively with other engineering disciplines to understand project impacts.
- Collect field notes during site visits.
- Consider and communicate design changes and their impacts on the overall project.
Essential Skills
- Proven experience in project management and construction management.
- Engineering design and mechanical engineering expertise.
- Experience in heavy industrial projects related to oil and gas, renewable energies, or pulp and paper.
- Process piping, MEP design, MEP engineering, plumbing design, HVAC, heavy industrial construction knowledge.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of combined experience as a senior engineer and project manager on industrial projects.
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering is required; mechanical or chemical engineering degree preferred.
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) license is desired; willingness to obtain PE if not currently held.
- Technical field and client job site experience.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to travel approximately 10-25% of the time throughout the western United States with some national travel.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications, web meeting software, and PDF markup software.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Project or similar tools is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Navisworks Freedom is preferred.
Work Environment
Enjoy a 100% remote working schedule with minimal travel, typically 10-25%, involving several short trips each year. Benefit from a company culture that values work/life balance and passion for client visions. Benefit offerings include group health, dental, and vision insurance; life insurance, short and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, holiday pay, and continued education reimbursement. Enjoy every other Friday off.
Contact Information
Email: alesimmons@actalentservices.com