Manager - Engineering Projects

Projects Operations Lead
- Quench & Temper

U. S. Steel Tubular Products delivers high quality seamless pipe that powers America's energy and industrial backbone. Backed by more than a century of steelmaking and a culture of innovation, our team builds premium connections and partners with customers to tackle their toughest challenges, keeping energy and industry moving forward.

The Projects Operations Lead
- Quench & Temper is responsible for providing technical and operational leadership for capital projects supporting Quench & Temper (Q&T) operations at Fairfield Works
- Tubular. This role serves as a key connection point between Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Supply Chain, contractors, vendors, and plant leadership to ensure Q&T projects are safely planned, effectively executed, and successfully transitioned into sustainable operations.

This position will lead projects from concept through commissioning, startup, training, and stabilization, with responsibility for translating project scope into operating readiness. The role will support equipment design reviews, construction and outage coordination, process control readiness, commissioning plans, training requirements, and post-startup performance improvement. The successful candidate will bring strong technical judgment, operational discipline, project execution capability, and the ability to build capability in the workforce as new or modified Q&T processes are implemented.

• Lead capital and operational improvement projects for Quench & Temper operations from concept development through scope definition, execution planning, commissioning, startup, and stabilization.
• Serve as the operations lead for Q&T project execution, ensuring project decisions consider safety, environmental compliance, quality, production continuity, maintainability, training, and long-term operating performance.
• Partner with Engineering to review equipment design, process parameters, utility requirements, equipment specifications, installation plans, and manufacturing requirements for Q&T equipment and supporting systems.
• Support project development activities including front-end loading, cost-benefit evaluation, alternative analysis, project estimates, funding requests, scope development, implementation planning, and operating readiness plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional project activities across Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Supply Chain, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of scope, schedule, resources, and operational needs.
• Develop and support commissioning, startup, and ramp-up plans, including readiness checklists, acceptance criteria, equipment testing, process validation, training requirements, and transition-to-operations plans.
• Lead or support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), construction walkdowns, punch-list resolution, commissioning reviews, and final turnover of equipment or process changes to Operations.
• Oversee training and workforce readiness for Q&T projects, including operating procedures, standard work, qualification requirements, hands-on training, and competency sign-off for management and hourly employees.
• Collaborate with Quality and Product/Technical teams to ensure Q&T process controls, inspection requirements, customer specifications, product qualification needs, and QMS documentation are addressed during project execution.
• Monitor and analyze Q&T process data, equipment performance, downtime drivers, product quality trends, and operating conditions to identify improvement opportunities and corrective actions.
• Lead efforts to identify, implement, and document project-driven improvements in safety, quality, productivity, reliability, cost, throughput, and process consistency.
• Provide technical and operational guidance related to Q&T equipment, heat treatment processes, quenching, tempering, process control, material flow, and operating standards.
• Support contractor and vendor coordination, including bid evaluations, specification reviews, expediting, field execution, work planning, safety expectations, and construction progress management.
• Ensure…