Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager Engineering and Manufacturing Job Description
This Project Manager role focuses on leading complex, industrial and constructionfocused projects within an expanding engineering and manufacturing environment. You serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the project lifecycle, translating technical specifications into actionable deliverables, coordinating crossfunctional teams, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to high quality standards. The position offers longterm stability, clear career progression, and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on technically challenging, handson projects.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary point of contact for customers, actively engaging and collaborating with them throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute projects while maintaining strict control over scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Interpret customer specifications and technical requirements, and translate them into clear, actionable project deliverables.
- Monitor and manage changes that affect project scope, schedule, and cost, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
- Produce and deliver accurate drawing packages to manufacturing, ensuring all documentation meets project and quality requirements.
- Partner closely with production teams to ensure product quality and alignment with project specifications.
- Identify project challenges early, troubleshoot issues, and make timely, wellinformed decisions to keep projects on track.
- Uphold and enforce quality standards across all phases of the project, from planning through execution and closeout.
- Build and sustain strong, longterm customer relationships through responsive communication and reliable project delivery.
- Assign work to engineering and production team members, oversee task execution, and ensure alignment with project goals.
- Track key project metrics, evaluate outcomes against objectives, and document lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, quality assurance, planning, and manufacturing teams to drive real, handson project impact.
- Participate in project reviews and customer visits at the facility, providing clear updates and technical insight on project status.
Essential Skills
- 13 years of experience managing projects in an industrial, manufacturing, or construction setting.
- 1+ year of experience reading AutoCAD drawings and specifications.
- Project management experience with responsibility for scope, schedule, and budget.
- Background in engineering, with the ability to interpret technical specifications and drawings.
- Proficiency with AutoCAD for reviewing and working with technical drawings.
- Understanding of electrical engineering concepts relevant to industrial and manufacturing projects.
- Ability to coordinate crossfunctional teams, including engineering, quality assurance, planning, and manufacturing.
- Strong decisionmaking skills, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and make timely, wellinformed choices.
- Excellent communication skills to serve as a primary customer point of contact and build longterm relationships.
- Ability to enforce quality standards and maintain high levels of accuracy in project documentation and deliverables.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related field.
- Experience with design tools such as SolidWorks and MicroStation.
- PMP certification or progress toward certification.
- Experience managing complex industrial and constructionfocused projects, even when not directly overseeing production or installation work.
- Comfort working in a fastgrowing organization with evolving processes and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Interest in developing a longterm career in an expanding manufacturing environment with clear project management career progression.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with senior Project Managers and benefit from handson onboarding and mentorship.
- Strong organizational skills for tracking project metrics, documenting lessons learned, and contributing to process improvements.
Work Environment
This role is primarily officebased within a rapidly growing engineering and manufacturing organization. Standard hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM, totaling a 40hour work week. You will have an office on a large team of approximately 25 people and work closely with a senior manager alongside 56 other team members. Project Managers spend about 7580% of their time at a desk collaborating with engineering, quality, and planning teams, and regularly visit the production floor to engage with foremen and operations staff. Customer interaction occurs mainly onsite at the facility during project reviews and tours, while travel to customer sites is minimal and typically handled by specialized installation teams. The culture is collaborative and social, with team and companywide outings, and the organization offers longterm stability supported by secured customer contracts, clear career progression across project management levels, and performancebased bonuses tied to both individual contribution and overall company success.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Des Moines, IA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $90000.00 - $120000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Des Moines, IA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 30, 2026.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Des Moines,IA. About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

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