Fabrication Project Manager

Savannah Tank and Equipment Corporation

Savannah (GA)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 85,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Savannah Tank and Equipment Corporation in Garden City, GA seeks a dedicated Project Manager to drive customer projects from PO award through final delivery. You will maintain schedules, coordinate multi‑tank jobs, and ensure timely updates to customers and internal teams.

The role requires strong client communication, documentation discipline, and experience in a shop environment, with ownership of project outcomes and ship dates.

Qualifications

3+ years managing multiple concurrent projects in custom fabrication, industrial manufacturing, job-shop production, construction, or similar environment.
Degree in mechanical engineering, mathematics, or similar area of study, or 7+ years practical experience.
Comfortable working in and around a shop environment.
Operates independently and brings problems to leadership on a path to resolution.
Able to run focused, productive meetings with a clear agenda and timing.

Responsibilities

Be the customer’s main point of contact after the PO is awarded, communicate progress, issues, changes, and delivery timing.
Maintain the project-level schedule with milestones and release dates, updating weekly.
Track multiple tanks through PRE FAB → FIT → TESTING → FINISHING to know status.
Lead internal project meetings with clear agenda, decisions, and action items.
Lead recurring customer project reviews with progress, milestones, and changes explained clearly.

Skills

Project coordination

Client communication

Meetings facilitation

Documentation

Reading fabrication drawings

ERP systems (JobBOSS)

MS365 familiarity

Education

B.S. in mechanical engineering or related field

Tools

JobBOSS

MS365 Suite

Job description

Savannah Tank and Equipment Corp. | Garden City, GA | Full-Time, Onsite | $70,000–$85,000

For more than 30 years, Savannah Tank has built custom ASME Section VIII pressure vessels, API 650 storage tanks, heat exchangers, and modular process equipment for leading companies in some of the most demanding industries in the country — chemical processing, water treatment, energy, food and beverage, pharma. We’ve earned our reputation on exceptional quality, code-compliant engineering, and on-time delivery.

Recent growth has us hiring a dedicated Project Manager to keep customer projects on track from PO award through final delivery.

Own the Process; Improve the Playbook

You’ll have real ownership of the work and flexibility in the tools and methods you use to do it. What matters is that customers get on-time, accurate updates about their tanks, the team has reliable information to work from, and tanks ship on the dates we promised.

What You’ll Own

You’ll drive every project from PO award through final delivery — keeping customers informed, internal teams aligned, and ship dates intact.

At Savannah Tank, a project includes all tanks in one PO — could be a single tank or twenty. Each individual tank is a job with its own job number. When the team asks, “What’s the status on job127?”— you will be able to answer on the spot, clearly, and accurately.

Specifically, you will:

Be the customer’s main point of contact after the PO is awarded. Communicate progress, issues, change orders, and delivery timing clearly and professionally. Send regular updates with project photos.
Maintain the project-level schedule— customer milestones, drawing release dates, fabrication start, target ship dates — and update it weekly.
Track every job in flight— multiple tanks at different stages at any given time — through PRE FAB → FIT → TESTING → FINISHING, so you always know where each tank stands.
Lead internal project meetings— clear agenda, decisions made, action items with named owners and due dates, follow-up communication issued same day. Time spent in these meetings should be highly productive and efficient; thus, you will be thoroughly prepared with focused topics in a logical order on the agenda.
Lead recurring customer project reviews. Know what each customer cares about, come prepared, and walk them through progress, milestones, and changes with clarity and confidence.
Defend the customer‑promised ship date. Coordinate with production, engineering, and QC to keep things on track. When issues come up, work them with the people who can fix them — and bring problems to leadership already on a path to resolution.
Stay on top of every input that affects a tank’s timeline— materials, drawings, QC schedules, vendor deliveries/services. You don’t run engineering, production, or procurement, but you do see the whole picture across departments; when something could move a ship date, you take it directly to the people who can address it.
Coordinate change orders— work with Sales and Operations to determine and communicate the impact of changes on cost and schedule to the customer.
Surface risks early— to the team internally and to customers when needed; don’t let a missed milestone be a surprise to anyone.
Coordinate trucking and shipping logistics as projects approach completion.
Keep accurate, organized records— trackers, customer correspondence, milestone dates, change orders — that match reality and support clear status reporting.

What you bring

Required

3+ years managing multiple concurrent projects in custom fabrication, industrial manufacturing, job‑shop production, construction, or a similar environment (adjacent experience welcome — production coordinators, schedulers, expediters, and construction PMs who can demonstrate the skills should apply)
Degree in mechanical engineering, mathematics, or similar area of study, or 7+ years practical experience.
Comfortable working in and around a shop environment (you’ll walk the floor regularly)
Operates independently and brings problems to leadership already on a path to resolution
Able to run focused, productive meetings — clear agenda, decisions made, time respected
Comfortable holding peers accountable across departments — you push for what the project needs without burning bridges
Customer‑facing presence — comes prepared, answers questions on the spot, and represents Savannah Tank well in front of customers
Ability to read and discuss fabrication drawings, customer specifications, and technical documents
Disciplined and reliable project record keeping that reflects real life and the team can trust.
Working knowledge of MS365 (Excel, Outlook, Word, SharePoint, Teams)
Able to navigate ERP systems e.g., JobBOSS

Strong plus

8+ years of relevant project management experience
Experience with ASME pressure vessels, API 650 tanks, or AWS structural welding code work
Experience with custom/one‑off fabrication versus high‑volume production
Background in chemical processing, energy, water treatment, or similar end markets

We care more about whether you can keep customers informed, keep projects organized, surface risks early, and keep the team aligned.

What makes this different

Real ownership.Customers know you by name. Your job is project execution from PO to delivery — not status reporting up the chain.
Tool flexibility.You’ll have Microsoft Office and our ERP (JobBOSS) on day one. Beyond that, we’re open to discussing tools that help you do the job well — we care more about the result than the brand on the software.
A shop that does serious work.ASME-certified pressure vessels, API tanks, heat exchangers, and modular systems for demanding industries. Carbon steel, stainless, duplex, Monel, Inconel, Alloy 20. Real engineering complexity and craftsmanship.

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