Project Manager (32549)

Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions:

Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world.

We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies.

At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business.

Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit!

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated capabilities in collaborating with others to perform engineering tasks within a team environment. Work experience with a privately-held company will be beneficial.

The Project Manager is responsible for execution of projects from pre-contract sales support through customer acceptance and final payment, ensuring that quality, schedule, cost, and performance goals are achieved. The Project Manager also serves as the primary point of coordination between customers, internal teams, subcontractors, and management to ensure successful project execution.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage projects to meet schedule, cost, and quality goals (design, supply, and/or construction scopes).
• Properly manage the financial risk/reward relationship while providing creative solutions to remove obstacles and solve execution difficulties.
• Serve as a primary customer contact throughout the project lifecycle and maintain positive professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, change orders, and contract requirements.
• Review, execute, and manage subcontractor agreements including engineering and construction.
• Support pre-contract sales by providing proposal and pricing strategies.
• Review proposal documents and provide technical and commercial risk analysis.
• Coordinate fabrication shop activities as related to engineering, procurement, and customer interface.
• Demonstrate core values and beliefs during daily decision making.
• Promote trust and loyalty through actions.
• Deal with adversity by directing the crisis management effort.
• All other duties as assigned.