Roofing Project Manager

Trueline Talent; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Trueline's Milwaukee-based client seeks a Roofing Project Manager to lead a nationwide roofing program across hundreds of industrial buildings. The role oversees contractor onboarding, bid management, material procurement, and roof asset planning with travel to multiple states as needed.

You will drive budgets, inventories, and capital planning while coordinating with ownership and internal teams. This is a high-visibility, in-office role offering growth within a large industrial real estate

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of relevant construction or capital improvement experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field.
• Ability to work in-office in Milwaukee five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Source, vet, and onboard roofing contractors nationwide; build and maintain a bid-ready contractor bench.
• Solicit, level, and award bids across all scopes (new, overlay/re-cover, repair, fluid-applied coatings).
• Prequalify contractors — licensing, insurance/COI tracking, bonding, safety record, and manufacturer certifications.
• Manage subcontracts, change orders, lien waivers, and pay applications.
• Prioritize and coordinate crew deployment across the portfolio to balance urgency, weather, and cost.

Skills

Project coordination

Multi-project tracking

Reading roof plans

Communication

Contractor management

Education

Bachelor's in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Spreadsheet software

Project scheduling software

Job description

Trueline's client, a national industrial real estate owner with a large portfolio of properties across the United States, is seeking a Roofing Project Manager to join their Milwaukee team. This role will oversee a nationwide roofing program spanning reroofs, overlays, repairs, coatings, storm response, contractor management, material procurement, and roof asset planning across hundreds of industrial buildings.

What You'll Do as the Roofing Project Manager:

• Manage multiple roofing projects across a national industrial property portfolio
• Source, vet, and onboard commercial roofing contractors across multiple regions
• Build and maintain a qualified contractor bench for future project needs
• Solicit, review, level, and award bids for reroofs, overlays, repairs, coatings, and related scopes
• Normalize contractor scopes so proposals can be compared accurately
• Prequalify contractors for licensing, insurance, safety, bonding, and manufacturer certifications
• Manage subcontracts, change orders, lien waivers, and pay applications
• Coordinate crew deployment across multiple states based on urgency, weather, project readiness, and cost
• Track project schedules and maintain a reliable source of truth for status across all active work
• Review progress photos, completion documentation, and closeout packages
• Coordinate emergency leak response and storm-related repairs
• Manage roof warranty registration, tracking, and enforcement
• Support insurance claims related to hail, wind, and other storm events
• Coordinate with adjusters, contractors, ownership, and internal teams during claim resolution
• Order roofing materials and support bulk purchasing strategies to improve pricing
• Track material systems, costs, and usage across properties
• Maintain a detailed roof inventory including roof sections, system type, installation dates, warranties, and square footage
• Evaluate ponding, secondary drainage, overflow conditions, and other roof performance risks
• Help develop drainage improvement recommendations including tapered insulation, drains, scuppers, crickets, and saddles
• Support roof condition assessments and multi-year capital planning
• Reconcile invoices, purchase orders, and completed work
• Track program budgets and communicate cost and progress updates to ownership
• Travel approximately 10-15% for post-completion reviews, quality checks, and contractor site visits

Must-Haves as the Roofing Project Manager:

• 3-7 years of relevant construction, project management, roofing, facilities, or capital improvement experience
• Strong project coordination and multi-project tracking skills
• Ability to manage projects across multiple locations and schedules
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to read commercial roof plans, specifications, and construction details
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and project or scheduling software
• Comfort working directly with contractors, vendors, accounting, and ownership
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work onsite in Milwaukee five days per week
• Willingness to travel approximately 10-15%
• Ability to safely access roofs, climb ladders, work at heights, and walk large roof areas

Nice-to-Haves as the Roofing Project Manager:

• Roofing estimating experience
• Field roofing experience
• Knowledge of low-slope commercial roofing systems
• Experience with TPO
• Experience with EPDM
• Experience with PVC
• Experience with Modified Bitumen
• Experience with Built-Up Roofing
• Experience with fluid-applied roof coatings
• Familiarity with commercial roofing manufacturer warranty programs
• Knowledge of manufacturers such as GAF, Carlisle, Holcim/Elevate, Johns Manville, or Sika/Sarnafil
• Insurance claim or storm restoration experience
• Drainage design or roof condition assessment experience
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field

Our Client Offers:

• High-visibility role with ownership over a nationwide roofing program
• Exposure to a large industrial property portfolio
• Opportunity to manage projects across multiple climates and regions
• Ability to influence contractor strategy, procurement, warranty management, and capital planning
• Direct interaction with ownership and internal leadership
• Opportunity to build systems and processes that improve long-term roof performance
• Broad exposure to reroofing, coatings, repairs, storm response, and drainage improvement projects
• Long-term career growth within a large industrial real estate platform

Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal-opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Trueline's client, a national industrial real estate owner with a large portfolio of properties across the United States, is seeking a Roofing Project Manager to join their Milwaukee team. This role will oversee a nationwide roofing program spanning reroofs, overlays, repairs, coatings, storm response, contractor management, material procurement, and roof asset planning across hundreds of industrial buildings.

What You'll Do as the Roofing Project Manager:

• Manage multiple roofing projects across a national industrial property portfolio
• Source, vet, and onboard commercial roofing contractors across multiple regions
• Build and maintain a qualified contractor bench for future project needs
• Solicit, review, level, and award bids for reroofs, overlays, repairs, coatings, and related scopes
• Normalize contractor scopes so proposals can be compared accurately
• Prequalify contractors for licensing, insurance, safety, bonding, and manufacturer certifications
• Manage subcontracts, change orders, lien waivers, and pay applications
• Coordinate crew deployment across multiple states based on urgency, weather, project readiness, and cost
• Track project schedules and maintain a reliable source of truth for status across all active work
• Review progress photos, completion documentation, and closeout packages
• Coordinate emergency leak response and storm-related repairs
• Manage roof warranty registration, tracking, and enforcement
• Support insurance claims related to hail, wind, and other storm events
• Coordinate with adjusters, contractors, ownership, and internal teams during claim resolution
• Order roofing materials and support bulk purchasing strategies to improve pricing
• Track material systems, costs, and usage across properties
• Maintain a detailed roof inventory including roof sections, system type, installation dates, warranties, and square footage
• Evaluate ponding, secondary drainage, overflow conditions, and other roof performance risks
• Help develop drainage improvement recommendations including tapered insulation, drains, scuppers, crickets, and saddles
• Support roof condition assessments and multi-year capital planning
• Reconcile invoices, purchase orders, and completed work
• Track program budgets and communicate cost and progress updates to ownership
• Travel approximately 10-15% for post-completion reviews, quality checks, and contractor site visits

Must-Haves as the Roofing Project Manager:

• 3-7 years of relevant construction, project management, roofing, facilities, or capital improvement experience
• Strong project coordination and multi-project tracking skills
• Ability to manage projects across multiple locations and schedules
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to read commercial roof plans, specifications, and construction details
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and project or scheduling software
• Comfort working directly with contractors, vendors, accounting, and ownership
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work onsite in Milwaukee five days per week
• Willingness to travel approximately 10-15%
• Ability to safely access roofs, climb ladders, work at heights, and walk large roof areas

Nice-to-Haves as the Roofing Project Manager:

• Roofing estimating experience
• Field roofing experience
• Knowledge of low-slope commercial roofing systems
• Experience with TPO
• Experience with EPDM
• Experience with PVC
• Experience with Modified Bitumen
• Experience with Built-Up Roofing
• Experience with fluid-applied roof coatings
• Familiarity with commercial roofing manufacturer warranty programs
• Knowledge of manufacturers such as GAF, Carlisle, Holcim/Elevate, Johns Manville, or Sika/Sarnafil
• Insurance claim or storm restoration experience
• Drainage design or roof condition assessment experience
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field

Our Client Offers:

• High-visibility role with ownership over a nationwide roofing program
• Exposure to a large industrial property portfolio
• Opportunity to manage projects across multiple climates and regions
• Ability to influence contractor strategy, procurement, warranty management, and capital planning
• Direct interaction with ownership and internal leadership
• Opportunity to build systems and processes that improve long-term roof performance
• Broad exposure to reroofing, coatings, repairs, storm response, and drainage improvement projects
• Long-term career growth within a large industrial real estate platform

Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal-opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law.

Roofing Project Manager

Location: Milwaukee, WI — in-office 5 days/week

Travel: ~10–15% (post-completion roof reviews, QA, contractor site visits)

Employment type: Full-time, salaried

About the Role

We manage a nationwide industrial portfolio of 200+ buildings (90M+ SF across 26 states) and run an active roofing program spanning new roofs, re-cover/overlays, patch-and-repair, and fluid-applied/spray coating restoration. This role owns the day-to-day management of that program — sourcing and directing roofing contractors, controlling materials and cost, tracking every roof section as an asset, and keeping crews sequenced across the country from our Milwaukee office.

This is a coordination- and analysis-heavy seat, not a boots-on-the-roof superintendent role. You'll run multiple concurrent projects in multiple climate zones, act as the central point between contractors, vendors, accounting, and ownership, and build the systems that let us prioritize where dollars and crews go next.

Key Responsibilities

Contractor & Vendor Management

• Source, vet, and onboard roofing contractors nationwide; build and maintain a bid-ready contractor bench in the regions we operate
• Solicit, level, and award bids across all scopes (new, overlay/re-cover, repair, fluid-applied coatings); normalize scope so bids are truly comparable
• Prequalify contractors — licensing, insurance/COI tracking, bonding, safety record, and manufacturer certifications
• Manage subcontracts, change orders, lien waivers, and pay applications
• Prioritize and coordinate crew deployment — decide where and when crews mobilize across the portfolio to balance urgency, weather, and cost

Project Execution & Scheduling

• Track schedules across many concurrent projects and states; maintain a single source of truth for status
• Collect and review progress photos, completion documentation, and close-out packages
• Coordinate emergency leak response and storm-damage repairs
• Manage warranty work — registration, tracking, and enforcement of manufacturer and contractor warranties

Storm Damage & Insurance Claims

• Coordinate emergency response and repairs after hail, wind, and other storm events across the portfolio
• Document damage (photos, reports, scopes) and support insurance claims from filing through completion
• Work with adjusters, contractors, and ownership to align repair scope, cost, and coverage
• Track claim status and recovery against repair spend

Materials & Procurement

• Order project materials and run bulk/portfolio-wide buys to capture volume pricing
• Track material and system type used on each roof section/building
• Reconcile material costs and orders against budget

Roof Asset Management & Technical Analysis

• Maintain a roof inventory — sections contracted, membrane/system type, install date, warranty status, and square footage by building
• Analyze overflow/secondary drainage and flat-roof ponding; identify at-risk roofs and prioritize interventions
• Develop drainage design recommendations — tapered insulation layouts, added roof drains/scuppers, overflow provisions, and crickets/saddles to eliminate ponding
• Support condition assessments and multi-year capital/reroof forecasting

Administrative & Financial

• Field invoicing and admin questions from contractors and accounting; reconcile invoices to POs and completed work
• Track project and program budgets; report cost and progress to ownership

Qualifications

Required

• 3–7 years of relevant experience (out of school)
• Bachelor's in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field preferred
• Strong project coordination, organization, and multi-project tracking skills
• Comfortable reading roof plans, specs, and details
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and project/scheduling software
• Able to work in-office in Milwaukee five days per week

Preferred

• Prior roofing experience (field, estimating, or PM)
• Familiarity with commercial low-slope systems (TPO, EPDM, PVC, mod-bit, BUR) and fluid-applied coatings
• Working knowledge of manufacturer systems and warranty programs (GAF, Carlisle, Holcim/Elevate, Johns Manville, Sika/Sarnafil, etc.)
• Experience with contractor prequalification and vendor management

Physical

• Able to access roofs safely, climb ladders, work at heights, and walk large roof areas during site reviews

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

• A reliable, current roof inventory and status tracker for the portfolio
• A qualified contractor bench with active bids in our key regions
• Measurable material cost savings through bulk purchasing
• A working prioritization process for drainage/ponding and reroof capital planning