Project Manager
Summary
Leads miscellaneous steel construction projects end to end for SME Industries — owning budgets, schedules, change orders, risk, quality, safety, and coordination among general contractors, vendors, sub-trades, and internal crews — with required travel to job sites across multiple states.
Position Summary
We are seeking a Project Manager to join our team. In this role, you will lead high-level misc. steel construction projects from planning to completion, ensuring they meet scope, budget, and timeline goals. This role requires a high level of coordination across teams internally and externally, with a focus on monitoring progress and identifying and addressing risks to keep projects on track.
Key Responsibilities
· Full responsibility for strength in performance on contracted misc. steel projects encompassing financial, program, quality, safety and client relationship aspects.
· Prepare, negotiate, and authorize change order requests beyond original scope.
· Accountable for risk identification and mitigation.
· Leadership and coordination with affiliated resources (procurement, detailing, engineering, production, shipping and field crews, sub-trade and vendor management).
· Transparent reporting to executive management, client and other authorities of jurisdiction.
· Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required:
· Minimum of 2 years of misc. steel construction related project management involvement (set-up, budget assignment, schedule development, drawings oversight, project controls, costs and milestones, financial flows, risk assessment and mitigation, contract compliance, in-house staff direction, field direction, sub-trade and vendor management.)
· Skillful in clear and effective communication between general contractors, numerous departments, vendors, sub-trades, in-house management and shop or field crafts.
· Sound understanding of steel industry environment relative to structural and misc. design, detailing, model and drawing data exchange, specification compliance, schedule discipline, change management, billings and reporting.
· This position requires travel to and from various work sites across multiple states. Candidates must be willing and able to travel with short notice as required by project schedules.
Preferred:
· Experience leading large-scale misc. steel construction projects without needing oversight
· Experience managing and mentoring project management staff
Position Responsibilities: This job posting reflects the current assignment of essential functions and is not meant to be all-inclusive. Duties and responsibilities may be assigned or reassigned to this job at any time and may be modified to reasonably accommodate an individual with a disability or for other reasons.
Equal Employment Opportunity: SME Industries Inc. and its divisions (SME Steel Contractors, Southwest Steel, CoreBrace, DuraFuse, and SME Logistics) are equal opportunity employers.
Employment Authorization: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future. Proof of eligibility will be required upon hire.
Required:
· Minimum of 2 years of misc. steel construction related project management involvement (set-up, budget assignment, schedule development, drawings oversight, project controls, costs and milestones, financial flows, risk assessment and mitigation, contract compliance, in-house staff direction, field direction, sub-trade and vendor management.)
· Skillful in clear and effective communication between general contractors, numerous departments, vendors, sub-trades, in-house management and shop or field crafts.
· Sound understanding of steel industry environment relative to structural and misc. design, detailing, model and drawing data exchange, specification compliance, schedule discipline, change management, billings and reporting.
· This position requires travel to and from various work sites across multiple states. Candidates must be willing and able to travel with short notice as required by project