Project Manager, Mission Critical

Advastar, Inc; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision

401K with match

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Advastar, Inc. is seeking a Mission-Critical Project Manager for our Kansas City metro operations. Own the project from order acceptance through engineering, manufacturing, shipment, and closeout; maintain schedule-driven control and customer relationships.

Hybrid role requiring 3 days onsite weekly with ~10% travel; PMP preferred; bachelor’s in engineering/related field; 3+ years in industrial/ETO environments; base salary $100K–$115K plus SIP bonus; comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, PM, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 3+ years managing technical, schedule-driven projects in industrial/manufacturing/ETO environments.
• PMP certification or formal project-management training is strongly preferred.
• Experience delivering mission-critical or data center projects.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, specs, and submittals and spot discrepancies.
• Experience coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, shipping, and construction to protect the critical path.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, ERP, and CRM systems.

Responsibilities

• Own customer projects end to end from sales handoff through closeout.
• Build and actively manage schedules, milestones, and critical-path activities.
• Catch scope gaps, drawing discrepancies, and project risks early and drive them to resolution.
• Move engineering submittals, RFIs, customer comments, and change orders through to closure.
• Keep engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, shipping, and construction aligned and moving.
• Give customers and internal stakeholders clear, current status: risks, decisions, action items, and recovery plans.
• Run several concurrent projects at once with accuracy and follow-through.

Skills

Project management

Schedule management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder communication

Reading engineering drawings

Education

Bachelor's degree (Engineering/Construction Management/PM)

Equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

AutoCAD

ERP

CRM

Project scheduling software

Job description

#jobalert | DIRECT HIRE | PROJECT MANAGER | MANUFACTURING | Kansas City Metro

An established manufacturer of engineered-to-order equipment is adding a Mission Critical Project Manager to support its fast-growing data center and mission-critical customer base. This is a commercial project management role: you own the customer relationship and drive each project from order acceptance through engineering, manufacturing, shipment, and closeout — not a field or construction role. You will be the person customers, engineering, and the plant all count on to keep complex, schedule-driven projects on their critical path. For a project manager who likes owning the whole thread and catching problems before they cost a milestone, this is a high-visibility seat on a small, growing team serving one of the hottest end-markets in the country.

• Anticipated $100K–$115K base, plus SIP (quarterly bonus), based on experience
• Benefits include: Health, Dental, Vision, 401K w/ match, PTO, holidays
• Hybrid schedule — 3 days per week onsite in the Kansas City metro; approximately 10% travel

OVERVIEW

• Own customer projects end to end, from sales handoff through closeout, as the single point of accountability
• Build and actively manage schedules, milestones, and critical-path activities to hit committed customer delivery dates
• Catch scope gaps, drawing discrepancies, and project risks early — before they hit the schedule — and drive them to resolution
• Move engineering submittals, RFIs, customer comments, and change orders through to closure without letting anything stall
• Keep engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, shipping, finance, and construction aligned and moving
• Give customers and internal stakeholders clear, current status: risks, decisions, action items, and recovery plans
• Run several concurrent projects at once without losing accuracy or follow-through

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• 3+ years managing technical, schedule-driven projects in an industrial, manufacturing, construction, or engineered-to-order environment
• Strongly Preferred — PMP certification or equivalent formal project-management training
  
• Strongly Preferred — Experience delivering mission-critical or data center projects
• Proven ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and submittals, and to spot discrepancies and missing information others miss
• Track record managing RFIs, submittals, change orders, and customer approvals through project closeout
• Experience coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, shipping, and construction to protect the critical path
• Comfort working directly with general contractors, engineering firms, owners, and large commercial customers
• Working familiarity with AutoCAD or similar drawing-review software, plus ERP, CRM, and project scheduling/document-management systems
• High ownership, urgency, and follow-through, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority

KEYWORDS

project manager, mission critical, data center, engineered-to-order, ETO, manufacturing project management, construction project management, technical project manager, project engineer, engineering submittals, RFI, change orders, project scheduling, critical path, schedule management, AutoCAD, ERP, CRM, customer project management, submittal management, project closeout, cross-functional coordination, industrial manufacturing, PMP