Senior Project Manager

Department: Project Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: North Kingstown, RI

Description

How You Will Help

• Lead and manage multiple complex, engineered-to-order projects from contract award through completion, ensuring contractual requirements, quality standards, budgets, and delivery commitments are met.
• Serve as the primary customer contact, building strong relationships, managing expectations, resolving escalated issues, and ensuring effective communication throughout project execution.
• Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional teams, including engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and sales, to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, critical paths, resources, budgets, financial forecasts, and risk mitigation strategies to achieve project objectives.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical, operational, and financial challenges, coordinating with subject matter experts and leadership as needed.
• Lead customer kickoff meetings, project status reviews, engineering reviews, and factory verification and acceptance activities.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to other project managers, promoting consistent project management practices, accountability, and professional development.
• Support the PMO Director in evaluating project priorities, resource allocation, portfolio performance, and resolution of escalated project issues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen project management processes, reporting, operational efficiency, and overall project performance.
• Collaborate with internal teams to capture lessons learned, implement best practices, and improve customer satisfaction and project delivery.
• Travel to customer sites as needed to strengthen relationships, support project objectives, and resolve critical issues.
• Maintain confidentiality of proprietary, customer-sensitive, and competitive information.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Project Management, Engineering Management, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in project management, engineering, or complex engineered-to-order projects, with demonstrated success managing multiple large-scale projects.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional project teams and coordinate effectively with engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and other stakeholders.
• Strong experience managing project scope, schedules, resources, risks, quality, budgets, costs, and contractual requirements from engineering through final delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate and resolve complex project challenges, manage competing priorities, and implement effective recovery strategies.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and customer relationship management skills, with a focus on customer satisfaction and repeat business.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, take ownership of project outcomes, and drive results in a fast-paced, technically complex environment.
• Experience managing projects across multiple industries, preferably including power generation, nuclear, naval, or defense applications. Experience with piping support systems is highly desirable.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.