Senior Project Manager – HVAC & Plumbing Construction

Upgrade Resources; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary based on experience

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid employee-only medical coverage

401(k) match

Job summary

Upgrade Resources in Fort Worth, TX is seeking a Project Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead commercial HVAC and plumbing construction projects on-site. You will own budgets, schedules, safety, quality, contracts, and client communication, mentoring junior staff, and coordinating with general contractors, owners, and engineers.

This full-time role offers on-site work with a competitive salary of $125,000–$185,000 annually, depending on experience, with strong opportunities for growth within

Qualifications

• 4+ years of project management experience with a commercial mechanical or plumbing contractor (8+ years for Senior PM).
• Experience managing self-performed HVAC, plumbing, and/or mechanical piping scopes with budget and profitability accountability.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, billing, cost control, contract review, procurement, subcontract administration, and change order management.
• Experience negotiating with suppliers, equipment vendors, subcontractors, and customers.
• Proven ability to resolve scope gaps, design issues, commercial disputes, and schedule impacts.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and communicate credibly with owners, general contractors, executives, field teams, and trade partners.
• Knowledge of applicable commercial building and mechanical/plumbing codes.
• Data center, healthcare, institutional, high-rise, or other complex commercial experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and closeout of HVAC and plumbing projects, including large, complex or high-visibility work.
• Own project results across budget, schedule, safety, quality, contractual compliance, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
• Review contracts, scopes of work, specifications, general conditions, and subcontractor obligations; identify risk and scope gaps early.
• Develop and manage budgets, cost codes, forecasts, schedules of values, billings, and cost-to-complete reporting.
• Prepare payment applications and review subcontractor payment requests and supporting documentation.
• Identify, price, submit, negotiate, and track change orders.
• Lead equipment, materials, PVF, and subcontractor buyout, procurement sequencing, and long-lead equipment planning.
• Coordinate schedules, manpower forecasts, procurement milestones, RFIs, submittals, and field execution with superintendents and foremen.
• Work directly with general contractors, owners, architects, engineers, vendors, subcontractors, BIM, prefabrication, and internal operations teams.
• Maintain accurate logs, project records, financial reports, correspondence, and closeout documentation.
• Resolve commercial, design, scope, schedule, financial, field, and customer-service issues.
• Mentor and develop Project Engineers, Assistant Project Managers, and at the senior level, Project Managers.
• Partner with field leadership to improve labor productivity, safety, prefabrication, installation sequencing, and commissioning readiness.
• Build strong customer and trade-partner relationships; senior-level hires support business development and operational-improvement initiatives.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Billing

Contract review

Procurement

Change orders

Negotiation

Communication

Scheduling

Team leadership

Problem solving

Job description

Upgrade Resources in Fort Worth, TX is seeking a Project Manager / Senior Project Manager to lead commercial HVAC and plumbing construction projects on-site. You will own budgets, schedules, safety, quality, contracts, and client communication, mentoring junior staff, and coordinating with general contractors, owners, and engineers.

This full-time role offers on-site work with a competitive salary of $125,000–$185,000 annually, depending on experience, with strong opportunities for growth within