Senior Structural Steel Project Manager: Erection & Precast

AlphaX; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and company holidays

Professional development opportunities

Long-term career growth

Job summary

AlphaX, a southeastern Wisconsin structural steel contractor, seeks an experienced Structural Steel Project Manager to lead commercial and industrial steel and precast projects from planning through field erection and closeout. The role requires direct structural steel project management experience and prior work with a steel contractor, fabricator, or specialty erector.

Candidates must be able to coordinate engineering, detailing, fabrication, procurement, and erection across multi-disciplinary

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience in structural steel construction.
• Direct experience managing commercial/industrial structural steel erection projects is required.
• Prior employment with a structural steel contractor, steel fabricator, or specialty steel erection company is required.
• Experience with precast concrete, miscellaneous metals, or ornamental iron is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of steel fabrication, detailing, erection sequencing, procurement, transportation, and crane operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead structural steel and precast projects from kickoff through erection, turnover, and closeout.
• Build and maintain schedules, budgets, purchasing plans, fabrication milestones, staffing needs, and equipment plans.
• Coordinate detailers, fabricators, superintendents, erectors, crane operators, subcontractors, suppliers, and general contractors.
• Review drawings, shop drawings, erection plans, specs, and contracts to confirm scope and resolve discrepancies.
• Align approvals, detailing, shop production, material releases, and deliveries with milestones.
• Monitor job costs, labor productivity, billing, forecasts, change orders, and profitability.
• Manage RFIs, submittals, purchase orders, pay apps, change docs, and project records.
• Oversee fabrication progress, shipping schedules, delivery sequencing, crane requirements, and site logistics.
• Ensure field crews have approved drawings, components, equipment, and labor.
• Resolve detailing errors, fabrication constraints, and erection scheduling conflicts to protect the schedule.
• Plan erection activities with field supervision and trades for safe, efficient installation.
• Lead project meetings and communicate schedule updates, financial performance, risks, and decisions.
• Hold subs and suppliers to contractual, quality, safety, and schedule requirements.
• Oversee inspections, punch lists, warranty obligations, handover, and closeout.
• Build strong relationships with owners, engineers, fabricators, suppliers, erectors, and partners.

Skills

Structural steel PM

Schedule management

Budgeting & cost controls

Stakeholder coordination

Procore/Bluebeam proficiency

Leadership & team mgmt

Tools

Procore

Bluebeam

MS Office

Job description

AlphaX, a southeastern Wisconsin structural steel contractor, seeks an experienced Structural Steel Project Manager to lead commercial and industrial steel and precast projects from planning through field erection and closeout. The role requires direct structural steel project management experience and prior work with a steel contractor, fabricator, or specialty erector.

Candidates must be able to coordinate engineering, detailing, fabrication, procurement, and erection across multi-disciplinary