Construction Project Manager

At Steven Douglas Corp (SDC), we specialize in designing and building custom automated machines that serve a wide variety of applications and industries. As a family-owned and growing business, we are committed to delivering innovative solutions by blending proven engineering principles with creative approaches to automation.

A Lead Project Manager at SDC guides assigned projects and oversees the companys full project portfolio from start to finish. This role manages project schedules and resource planning across teams and ensures projects stay on time and on budget. The Lead PM serves as the main link between clients and the SDC team, helping keep projects moving forward and solving technical issues as they arise.

Were looking for someone with proven success managing complex projects and strong leadership, organization, prioritization, and communication skills.

Why Join SDC?

Innovative Machine Design: At SDC, your primary focus will be creating detailed, functional machine concepts that align with customer requirements.

Collaborative Environment: Work closely with our sales, project management, and engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of design and execution.

Family-Owned Culture: Experience a supportive and agile environment that values technical excellence and personal growth.

What You'll Do:

• Schedules and maintains project resource assignments.
• Maintains resource manager, ensuring accurate allocation of team members assigned to jobs and communicating information to managers and PM team.
• Recommends work assignments for managers.
• Balances running key projects personally as well as helping oversee and improve PMO.
• Leads an interdepartmental team to complete assigned projects on time, on budget, to specifications, with accuracy and efficiency.
• Ability to help solve technical problems: quickly evaluate technical risk, create, and manage plans to mitigate risk.
• Manages changing responsibilities, project prioritization, and workload adjustments by effectively managing changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs and keeping the project plan accurate and updated.
• Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Acts as a liaison between company, customers, and vendors by addressing questions, concerns, and/or complaints throughout the project in a timely and professional manner.

What We're Looking For:

• History of driving projects though best practices, processes and change management.
• Experience solving technical problems with custom automation equipment.
• Enjoys hands-on approach to help assist projects to finish line.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management and proactive decision making.
• Ability to develop relationships, build credibility, and establish trust.
• Strong technical and analytical skills.
• Ability to effectively lead and manage interdepartmental teams.
• Proficient with Smartsheet.
• Bachelors Degree in a Business, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.
• PMP Certification.
• Experience identifying needs, assigning roles and responsibilities, and managing teams to meet project deliverables.
• Experience with automation projects.

What We Offer:

At SDC, we believe in taking care of our team both professionally and personally. We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Competitive pay reflecting your expertise and contributions.
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options, employer-paid life insurance.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and 10 company-paid holidays to support work-life balance.
• A 4% employer match to a 401(k) plan each pay period.
• Generous parental leave, and a company sponsored Employee Assistance Program.

Youll have the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting and challenging projects across industries, keeping your work engaging and impactful. Our company culture is built on integrity, respect, continuous learning, innovation, and teamwork, creating an environment where employees can thrive both personally and professionally.

Compensation details: Yearly Salary

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