Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager Job Description
Join a North American leader in precision metal fabrication, known for delivering high-quality solutions for custom and large-scale manufacturing. As a Project Manager, you will play a vital role in transforming customer ideas into finished products. You'll connect with customers and our team to ensure projects are properly planned, coordinated, and delivered from start to finish.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects from RFQ and quoting through production, delivery, and closeout, maintaining scope, schedule, costs, and priorities.
- Review drawings, specifications, and customer requirements to identify potential issues and ensure proper project planning before production.
- Coordinate workflow between estimating, engineering, fabrication, welding, finishing, quality, and delivery.
- Handle multiple custom and production projects while clearly communicating priorities, requirements, changes, and deadlines to the team.
- Build strong customer relationships by providing timely project updates, managing changes, and addressing concerns proactively.
- Monitor project costs, labor, outside services, schedules, and overall profitability, keeping management informed of progress, risks, and necessary decisions.
- Maintain accurate project documentation and ensure changes, revisions, and approvals are communicated to the appropriate teams.
- Support quality, safety, ISO processes, corrective actions, and continuous improvement, including delivery coordination and field or mobile welding requirements as needed.
Essential Skills
- Project Management
- Metal Fabrication
- Welding Processes
- Reading Fabrication Drawings
- Ability to manage up to 20 concurrent small-to-medium fabrication projects
- Proficiency in reading and interpreting fabrication and engineering drawings
- Experience in manufacturing environments and customer relations
- Strong organizational skills for balancing customer-facing work, project administration, and quoting/estimating
- Financial awareness for project coordination and estimation
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- CAD experience preferred
- Experience with CNC Laser Cutting, Press-Brake Forming
- Familiarity with ERP Systems, Manufacturing Systems, ISO 9001, CWB Requirements
- Adaptability and growth mindset
- Experience in a start-up environment with significant growth opportunities
Work Environment
Fully onsite, 5 days a week in a fast-paced manufacturing setting. Minimal time on the shop floor; majority of time spent on quoting, estimating, customer relations, and administration. Regular, full-time hours with a MondayThursday 7:00 a.m.5:00 p.m. and Friday 7:00 a.m.1:00 p.m. schedule. The environment encourages ownership, problem-solving, and innovation.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Charlotte, NC.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $38.46 - $45.67/hr. 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. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Charlotte, NC.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Nov 16, 2026.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Charlotte,NC. 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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