Project Manager

Ultipro; Hager City (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Meyer Utility Structures in Hager City, WI is seeking a Project Manager to lead customer projects from design through fabrication and delivery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You will serve as the primary point of contact for customers and coordinate with engineering, operations, and logistics to keep projects on schedule.

The ideal candidate is organized, proactive, and skilled at managing schedules, priorities, and cross-functional communication in an engineered-to-order setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with technical and customer account administration experience.
• Experience in managing large projects or multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience in manufacturing or engineered-to-order environments is preferred and basic understanding of supply contracts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams.
• Develop and manage project schedules from design through shipment.
• Identify schedule risks and develop mitigation plans with teams.
• Manage change orders, including schedule and project scope impacts.
• Provide regular project status updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables, drawing approvals, and releases to the plant.
• Ensure designs and drawings adhere to the project schedule.
• Collaborate with Engineering to resolve design-related schedule impacts.
• Read fabrication drawings for steel structures and understand cost drivers.
• Guide scheduling priorities for fabrication and delivery.
• Partner with operations, outsourcing, and logistics to support on-time delivery.
• Assist in continuous improvements in plant performance.
• Engage with plant operations through Gemba walks and shop floor reviews.
• Assist with or manage post-sales field repairs.
• Work with Project Administrator to ensure data is captured accurately.
• Ensure project dates and statuses are communicated clearly.
• Collaborate across functions to resolve conflicts and align priorities

Skills

Project management

Communication

Scheduling

Reading drawings

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Meyer Utility Structures is searching for a Project Manager to work out of our Hager City, WI plant. The Project Manager leads customer projects from design through fabrication and delivery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role serves as a primary point of contact for customers while coordinating closely with engineering, operations, and logistics to ensure projects deliver on time and, ideally, exceed customer expectations. The optimal candidate is organized, proactive, and comfortable managing schedules, priorities, and cross-functional communication in an engineered-to-order or manufacturing setting. This role reports to the Director of Project Management

Meyer Utility Structures is a proud subsidiary of the infrastructure company, Arcosa, Inc. We commit to and pride ourselves on providing reliable structures, superior service, and product solutions. Meyer Utility Structures is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams.
• Develop and manage project schedules from design through shipment.
• Identify schedule risks and work with teams to develop mitigation plans.
• Author and manage change orders, including schedule and project scope impacts.
• Provide regular project status updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables, drawing approvals, and releases to the plant.
• Ensure the delivery of designs and drawings adhere to the project schedule.
• Work closely with Engineering to resolve design-related schedule impacts.
• Possess a basic understanding of cost drivers within structure designs.
• Ability to read fabrication drawings for steel structures.
• Provide input on scheduling priorities for fabrication and customer delivery.
• Partner with operations, outsourcing, and logistics teams to support on-time delivery.
• Ensure the plant fabricates and delivers product on time to customers.
• Assist in continuous improvements in plant performance.
• Engage directly with plant operations through periodic Gemba walks and shop floor reviews to verify product status, understand constraints, and support on-time delivery commitments.
• Assist with or manage post-sales field repairs.
• Work with the Project Administrator (PA) to ensure project data is captured accurately.
• Ensure project dates and statuses are accurately maintained and communicated.
• Work collaboratively across functions to resolve conflicts and align priorities

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of two (2) years of technical and customer account administration experience.
• More than two (2) years of managing large projects or multiple projects in parallel preferred.
• Experience in manufacturing or complex engineered-to-order industries preferred. Basic understanding of legal terms and language pertaining to supply contracts preferred.
• Working knowledge of the utility industry preferred.
• Communication skills to provide directions to team members and build customer relationships.
• Ability to manage expectations within a project and communicate them to all stakeholders.
• Acts with integrity when managing customer expectations and internal commitments.
• Works collaboratively across functions to resolve conflicts and align priorities.
• Maintains accountability and professionalism under pressure.
• Ownership of outcomes when driving solutions.

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