Lead Project Manager
- Calgary, AB, Canada
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Job details
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
We at Trycewell Partners have been directly engaged to lead the search for an experienced Project Manager. This newly created, highly customer-facing position will oversee multiple projects from handover through design, fabrication, delivery, and closeout, while providing leadership to a 3 person engineering and design team.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple projects from award through final delivery and closeout
- Act as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the project lifecycle
- Maintain strong customer relationships and provide clear, consistent project updates
- Coordinate project requirements across Engineering, Design, Procurement, Production, Scheduling, Finance, and Service
- Monitor project schedules, budgets, deliverables, risks, and overall progress
- Address scope changes, scheduling concerns, technical issues, and customer requirements
- Ensure project documentation, reporting, and internal communication remain accurate and current
- Provide direction and support to the Project Engineer, Lead Designer, and Support Designer
- Escalate significant project risks or commercial concerns to a VP when required
- Support the successful delivery of projects in accordance with customer expectations, contractual requirements, and company standards
Qualifications
- Previous project management experience within a manufacturing, fabrication, or engineered-equipment environment
- Strong customer-facing experience with the ability to manage expectations and build trusted relationships
- Knowledge of fabricated, skid-mounted equipment
- Experience coordinating projects across engineering, procurement, production, and scheduling functions
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple active projects and competing priorities
- Effective communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Natural gas compression experience is considered an asset
- A mechanical engineering degree is considered an asset
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Lead Project Manager at Trycewell Partners will run several projects from award to final delivery, be the main contact for customers, and coordinate engineering, design, procurement, production and scheduling teams. The role also directs the project engineer and designers and escalates major risks to a VP.
Requirements
Candidates need prior project management experience in manufacturing, fabrication or engineered equipment, strong customer-facing skills, and experience coordinating engineering, procurement, production and scheduling. Knowledge of skid-mounted equipment is required; a mechanical engineering degree and natural gas compression experience are assets.
Skills
- Project management
- Project scheduling
- Budget tracking
- Risk management
- Stakeholder communication
- Cross-functional coordination
- Procurement coordination
- Production coordination
- Documentation and reporting
- Team leadership
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Skid-mounted equipment knowledge
- Fabrication processes
- Natural gas compression
- Mechanical engineering principles
Categories
- Manufacturing
- Engineering
- Energy
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- project manager
- project management
- lead project manager
- fabrication
- manufacturing
- engineered equipment
- skid-mounted equipment
- natural gas compression
- customer relationship
- procurement
- production scheduling
- project scheduling
- budget management
- risk management
- mechanical engineering
- engineering design team
- delivery and closeout
- client-facing
Seniority
Lead
Fields of study
- Mechanical engineering