Job Title: Hardline Project Manager – DEC / Detention Equipment
Location: Preferred location is CTG headquarters in Spokane, WA. Remote candidates located on the West Coast may be considered for the right construction, detention equipment, or secure-facility project management experience.
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: Occasional travel for project kickoff meetings, site walks, onsite coordination meetings, punch walks, client/GC meetings, and closeout support.
Compensation: $80,000–$125,000 annually, depending on experience
Benefits: See below
About the Role
Corrections Technology Group (CTG) is seeking a Hardline Project Manager to support our Detention Equipment Contractor (DEC) division on projects from project handoff through closeout. This role is responsible for planning, coordination, communication, documentation, budget awareness, schedule management, and successful project delivery.
The ideal candidate has strong construction project management experience and a working understanding of detention equipment, hollow metal doors and frames, detention hardware, security glazing, specialty openings, secure facilities, or similar scopes of work. This position works closely with CTG leadership, estimating, engineering, procurement, field leadership, subcontractors, general contractors, owners, and facility representatives.
While this role includes occasional travel to project sites for coordination and project support, it is a true project management position. The Hardline Project Manager is not expected to perform physical installation work onsite.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Setup & Execution Support
· Manage assigned hardline / DEC projects from internal handoff through completion and closeout.
· Review contracts, drawings, specifications, schedules, budgets, estimates, submittals, and scope requirements.
· Develop a clear project execution plan, identify risks early, and align internal and external stakeholders on expectations.
· Drive projects forward while maintaining scope, schedule, budget, quality, documentation, and customer communication.
2. Client, General Contractor & Internal Coordination
· Serve as a primary project contact for general contractors, owners, facility representatives, subcontractors, vendors, and internal teams.
· Attend and/or lead project meetings, including remote meetings, kickoff meetings, OAC meetings, coordination meetings, and onsite coordination meetings as needed.
· Track decisions, action items, open issues, commitments, and follow-up items to keep projects moving.
· Communicate project status, risks, constraints, changes, and resource needs clearly and proactively.
3. Scheduling & Planning
· Develop, maintain, and communicate project schedules, look-ahead plans, procurement timelines, and key milestone dates.
· Coordinate sequencing with field leadership, subcontractors, vendors, general contractors, and other trades.
· Monitor schedule impacts and work with stakeholders to resolve conflicts before they affect project delivery.
· Plan upcoming work so field teams have the information, approvals, materials, access, and resources required before mobilization.
4. Contract Administration & Documentation
· Manage project documentation, including RFIs, submittals, meeting notes, correspondence, change order requests, ASIs, drawing updates, logs, and closeout records.
· Maintain accurate and organized project information in company systems, including Procore or other project management platforms.
· Review project documents for scope impacts, coordination conflicts, and change conditions.
· Ensure required documentation is submitted, tracked, followed up on, and closed in a timely manner.
5. Budget, Cost Control & Change Management
· Monitor project budgets, labor hours, material costs, subcontractor costs, commitments, and forecasted cost impacts.
· Identify scope gaps, added work, delays, coordination impacts, and potential change order items early.
· Prepare, track, and support change order documentation in coordination with company leadership and estimating as needed.
· Provide regular updates on project financial status, risks, and anticipated cost or schedule impacts.
6. Procurement & Vendor Coordination
· Coordinate material requirements, purchase needs, approvals, releases, delivery schedules, and long-lead items.
· Work with vendors, suppliers, subcontractors, procurement, and field leadership to ensure materials align with project schedules and approved scope.
· Track material status and communicate risks related to fabrication, delivery, missing information, damaged materials, or supply constraints.
· Verify that procurement decisions are aligned with approved drawings, specifications, submittals, and project requirements.
7. Field Coordination & Project Support
· Provide project-level direction, priorities, documentation, and coordination support to Foremen, field technicians, and subcontractors.
· Ensure field teams have current drawings, approved submittals, schedules, access requirements, safety expectations, and clear direction before work begins.
· Coordinate responses to field questions, site conflicts, access issues, sequencing issues, and installation-related coordination items.
· Support field execution through communication, planning, and issue resolution, without being assigned as onsite installation labor.
8. Quality, Safety & Secure Facility Compliance
· Ensure work is coordinated and delivered in accordance with project specifications, detention standards, manufacturer requirements, CTG quality expectations, and customer requirements.
· Coordinate inspections, punch list items, deficiency tracking, corrective actions, and final acceptance activities.
· Support compliance with secure facility requirements, background check requirements, site access rules, safety procedures, and customer protocols.
· Promote professional communication and safe, organized execution on all assigned projects.
9. Closeout & Turnover
· Manage project closeout activities, including punch lists, O&M manuals, warranties, as-builts, training coordination, final documentation, and turnover requirements.
· Track incomplete items and ensure closeout requirements are completed in a timely and organized manner.
· Support final billing, change order reconciliation, customer acceptance, and internal project completion reviews.
Required Qualifications
· 5+ years of construction project management, specialty contracting, detention equipment, secure facility, door/hardware, or related project delivery experience; equivalent experience may be considered.
· Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, contracts, schedules, submittals, RFIs, and change documentation.
· Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, procurement, subcontractors/vendors, RFIs, submittals, change orders, punch lists, and closeout requirements.
· Strong communication, organization, documentation, follow-up, and problem-solving skills.
· Ability to coordinate across multiple internal departments, field teams, customers, general contractors, vendors, and subcontractors.
· Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, and construction/project management software; Procore experience is preferred.
· Ability to work independently in a hybrid or remote environment while maintaining consistent communication and accountability.
· Must be able to travel by air and vehicle to project sites, company offices, and coordination meetings as required.
· Must possess a REAL ID or valid passport to enable air travel to project sites.
· Ability to pass an extensive background check and drug screening due to secure correctional facility access requirements.
· Ability to work in secure correctional environments while adhering to all facility rules, safety requirements, and procedures.
Preferred Qualifications
· Experience managing projects in correctional, detention, justice, public safety, or other secure facility environments.
· Familiarity with detention equipment scopes, including detention locks, hollow metal doors and frames, security glazing, specialty hardware, control interfaces, and detention equipment manufacturers.
· Experience working directly with general contractors, owners, architects, engineers, facility representatives, vendors, and subcontractors.
· Experience with Procore, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar project management and scheduling tools.
· Understanding of public works projects, submittal processes, change management, prevailing wage requirements, and certified payroll coordination.
· OSHA certification or other construction safety training.
· Based in Spokane, WA, or able to work West Coast business hours and travel to Spokane or project sites as needed.
Compensation & Benefits
· Salary: $80,000–$125,000 annually, depending on experience
· Travel-related expenses and per diem provided in accordance with company policy
· Health Insurance: Employer pays 100% of employee medical, dental, and vision premiums
· Retirement: SIMPLE IRA with potential 3% employer match (based on eligibility and company performance)
· Equipment: Company-provided computer and equipment as needed for project management and coordination work
· Classification: Full-Time, Exempt
Join Our Team
CTG specializes in security integration and detention equipment solutions for correctional facilities. This role is a key part of the Hardline / DEC project management team and is responsible for turning awarded projects into organized, well-coordinated, successful outcomes. If you are a strong construction project manager who understands scope, schedule, budget, communication, documentation, and secure-facility coordination, we would like to connect.
Pay: $80,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Spokane, WA 99207
