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Mechanical Project Manager

Actalent

Posted Friday, June 6, 2025

Posting ID: JP-005333116

Portland, OR
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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.

Compensation:$140000

Contact Information

Email: alesimmons@actalentservices.com

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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Project Management
Microsoft Office
Construction
Mechanical Engineering
Microsoft Project
Verbal Communication Skills
HVAC
Project Schedules
Chemical Engineering
Engineering Calculations
Subcontracting
Mechanical Electrical And Plumbing (MEP) Systems
Industrial Construction
Plumbing Design
Navisworks (BIM Software)
Field Notes
Oil and Gas

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