Technical Project Manager

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases is a leading provider of cryogenic pumps, heat exchangers, process systems, services, and solutions for the LNG and industrial gases industry. We are a subsidiary of Nikkiso Company Ltd, a leading industrial manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with over $1.5 B in annual revenue, 8000 + employees worldwide, and publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Position Summary

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading the technical and commercial execution of complex engineered projects from contract award through design, manufacturing, testing, delivery, and project closeout. This role serves as a primary point of contact for assigned customers and provides overall project leadership to ensure contractual requirements, technical specifications, schedule commitments, quality expectations, and financial objectives are achieved.

The Technical Project Manager works closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, Quality, Sales, and other functional teams to coordinate project execution, resolve technical and operational challenges, manage project risk, and drive timely decision-making.

As a senior-level project professional, this position is expected to operate with a high degree of independence, exercise sound technical and commercial judgment, manage multiple priorities, and provide leadership across highly complex or strategically important projects.

Salary

$99,000/yr - $143,000/yr

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful completion of complex engineering and manufacturing projects.
• Serve as the primary customer contact for assigned projects, maintaining effective communication regarding technical requirements, schedules, deliverables, documentation, project status, and commercial matters.
• Manage customer change orders, scope changes, technical clarifications, and required project documentation while evaluating impacts to cost, schedule, and contractual commitments.
• Establish project objectives, budgets, schedules, milestones, and deliverables by reviewing contracts, proposals, technical specifications, customer requirements, and project plans.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules by defining project phases, activities, dependencies, resource requirements, milestones, and critical-path activities.
• Monitor project performance against established schedules and proactively identify delays, risks, constraints, and recovery actions necessary to support on-time delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional project activities involving Engineering, Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead project meetings and ensure responsibilities, priorities, deliverables, decisions, and action items are clearly communicated and followed through to completion.
• Maintain financial oversight of assigned projects by monitoring budgets, actual costs, commitments, forecasts, and potential cost exposures.
• Evaluate the cost and schedule impact of engineering changes, customer requests, manufacturing constraints, and other changes to project scope.
• Identify and manage technical, commercial, schedule, and execution risks and develop appropriate mitigation and recovery plans.
• Prepare and communicate project status reports, including schedule performance, financial performance, technical issues, risks, customer concerns, and recommended actions.
• Review product designs, technical specifications, customer requirements, applicable standards, and performance requirements to ensure alignment with project scope.
• Provide technical leadership and coordination for the system engineering and packaging of pumping, vaporizing, and other complex engineered systems.
• Prepare, review, and/or coordinate Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), technical documentation, and engineering deliverables as required.
• Select mechanical components and prepare or coordinate supporting technical documentation and engineering justification.
• Create, review, and modify bills of materials (BOMs) for complex systems and engineered equipment.
• Coordinate technical interfaces between mechanical, process, piping, instrumentation, electrical, controls, manufacturing, and other engineering disciplines.
• Provide technical support to…