Project Manager – Fabrication & Estimating
The Project Manager is responsible for the overall planning, estimating, coordination, execution, and financial performance of fabrication projects within the FMH Division. This role manages projects from initial RFQ and estimating through material procurement, fabrication, machining, coating/galvanizing, quality assurance, and final delivery, ensuring each project is completed safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with applicable codes and customer specifications.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage the full project lifecycle for assigned structural steel, pressure vessel, and heavy fabrication projects from RFQ and estimating through final delivery.
- Prepare detailed estimates for fabrication RFQs, including labor, materials, equipment, subcontractors, consumables, machining, coating/galvanizing, freight, and other project costs.
- Review bid documents, drawings, specifications, contracts, and scopes of work to develop accurate and competitive project estimates.
- Perform material takeoffs and quantity calculations and obtain vendor and subcontractor pricing as required.
- Identify project risks, exclusions, assumptions, scope gaps, and potential change-order opportunities during the estimating and preconstruction process.
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, budgets, manpower plans, production sequencing, and cost forecasts.
- Transition awarded projects from estimating into execution, ensuring budgets, scopes, schedules, and estimating assumptions are clearly communicated to the project and fabrication teams.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between customers, engineering, detailing, shop personnel, subcontractors, and vendors.
- Coordinate material procurement and ensure timely availability of plate, structural steel, welding consumables, and other materials required to meet production schedules.
- Track actual project costs against estimates and actively manage gross-margin performance, cost-to-complete projections, and overall project profitability.
- Review project performance and identify cost variances, productivity issues, and opportunities to improve margins.
- Oversee compliance with ASME BPVC, AWS D1.1, and other applicable codes, standards, and customer quality requirements.
- Coordinate with QA/QC and CWI personnel to ensure inspection, NDE, material certifications, weld maps, traveler packages, and other required documentation are completed accurately and on schedule.
- Process and manage RFIs, submittals, change orders, purchase orders, and progress billings.
- Coordinate galvanizing, machining, coating, finishing, logistics, and final shipment of completed weldments and assemblies.
- Enforce company safety policies and actively promote a strong Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) culture throughout fabrication operations.
- Provide regular and accurate project status reporting to division leadership and customers.
- Maintain accurate estimating and project documentation and ensure contractual and customer requirements are satisfied at project closeout.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent industry experience will be considered.
- 5+ years of project management and/or estimating experience in structural steel, heavy fabrication, pressure vessels, industrial construction, or a related manufacturing environment.
- Proven experience estimating fabrication projects, including material takeoffs, labor, equipment, subcontractors, machining, coating/galvanizing, freight, and indirect costs.
- Strong understanding of fabrication processes, including welding, machining, coating, galvanizing, and material procurement.
- Experience interpreting structural drawings, fabrication drawings, engineering specifications, contracts, and project scopes.
- Working knowledge of ASME BPVC, AWS D1.1, and applicable fabrication and quality standards.
- Experience developing project budgets, cost estimates, pricing, cost tracking, forecasting, change orders, and gross-margin projections.
- Ability to analyze historical project costs and production data to improve estimating accuracy and future project profitability.
- Strong understanding of QA/QC processes, welding documentation, NDE requirements, MTRs, weld maps, and traveler packages.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects while meeting schedule, budget, quality, and customer requirements.
- Strong communication, negotiation, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and estimating, scheduling, and project management software.
- Ability to work effectively with customers, engineers, fabricators, subcontractors, vendors, and internal leadership.
- Strong commitment to safety and HSE compliance.
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, specifications, and contractual documents.
- Experience working directly in a fabrication shop or heavy industrial environment strongly preferred.
- Ability to travel occasionally for customer meetings, site visits, inspections, and project requirements.
Pay: $95,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Education:
Experience:
- Construction Management: 5 years (Required)
- Estimating: 5 years (Required)
- Energy-Sector: 4 years (Preferred)
- Industrial/Heavy Fabrication, Structural Steel: 5 years (Required)
License/Certification:
- AWS Certification (Preferred)
- Certified Welding Inspector (Preferred)
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: In person
