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Project Manager

Compensation: $135,000-$145,000 base salary + bonus Full-Time | Houston, TX 

Company Overview

Our client is a growing building materials and industrial distribution company backed by a larger international organization. The company is expanding its U.S. footprint through new facilities, terminal infrastructure, logistics assets, and capital projects that support long-term growth across multiple markets.

This is an opportunity to join a high-performing internal projects team that plays a direct role in building and expanding the company's operational platform.

Team Overview

The Projects Team functions as the company's in-house engineering, procurement, and construction group. This team manages capital projects across the U.S., including industrial terminals, rail and barge infrastructure, storage expansions, material handling systems, and facility improvements.

The team is transitioning from a small, highly hands-on group into a more structured project organization. As the company continues to grow, they need an experienced Project Manager who can take ownership of industrial projects, lead execution, and drive discipline around scope, schedule, budget, reporting, contractor coordination, and project controls.

Position Overview

The Project Manager will lead multidisciplinary industrial construction and capital projects from planning through execution, startup, and commissioning. This person will be responsible for managing project scope, schedule, budget, contractors, vendors, documentation, and field coordination.

This is not a general commercial construction project management role. The right candidate will bring experience managing projects in cement, aggregates, mining, material handling, mineral processing, powdered bulk solids, terminals, heavy industrial facilities, or a closely related environment. Candidates from oil and gas, refining, chemical, or other heavy industrial environments may also be considered if they have broad project ownership, strong engineering judgment, and experience touching multiple parts of a project.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can operate without constant direction, make decisions in the field, work effectively with engineers and contractors, mentor younger team members, and lead with integrity, accountability, and a high standard for quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the full project life cycle for industrial capital projects, including planning, scope development, budgeting, scheduling, execution, startup, and commissioning.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, cost control, reporting, project documentation, and project controls in coordination with internal team members.
• Coordinate with engineers, contractors, vendors, operations, maintenance, and internal stakeholders to keep projects moving forward.
• Lead project execution in the field, resolving construction, sequencing, design, and contractor issues in real time.
• Review engineering drawings, project schedules, budgets, change orders, contractor deliverables, and technical documentation.
• Support procurement and vendor selection by helping evaluate bids, clarify scopes, negotiate with contractors, and select project partners.
• Coordinate with operations and maintenance teams to ensure safety, functionality, maintainability, and downtime requirements are incorporated into project plans.
• Lead multidisciplinary field activities through construction, startup, and commissioning while maintaining quality and safety standards.
• Prepare and present regular project status reports, including progress updates, risks, budget status, schedule updates, and key action items.
• Mentor and guide project engineers or junior team members as the project team continues to grow.
• Serve as a trusted project leader who can represent the company professionally with contractors, vendors, engineering partners, and internal leadership.
• Step outside of traditional project management duties when needed, including participating in engineering discussions, walking the field, identifying issues, and helping solve problems quickly.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Direct project management experience in industrial construction, heavy industrial facilities, or capital projects.
• Experience in cement, aggregates, mining, material handling, mineral processing, powdered bulk solids, terminals, or similar industrial environments is strongly preferred.
• Candidates from oil and gas, refining, chemical, or other heavy industrial environments may be considered if they have broad project exposure and strong engineering aptitude.
• Candidates coming only from residential, commercial office interiors, homebuilding, or light commercial construction will not be a fit unless they also have meaningful industrial project experience.
• Strong understanding of scope management, scheduling, budgeting, cost control, project controls, contractor coordination, reporting, and documentation.
• Ability to understand project sequencing and how engineering, procurement, construction, startup, and commissioning fit together.
• Engineering background or strong engineering intuition is highly preferred.
• Prior experience managing contractors, engineers, vendors, field teams, or cross-functional project stakeholders.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and support younger team members while also working effectively with highly experienced field personnel.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to manage difficult personalities, hold contractors accountable, and maintain composure under pressure.
• Self-starter mentality with the ability to make decisions, take ownership, and operate without needing constant direction.
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment where the team may need to work beyond a traditional 9-to-5 schedule to get the job done.
• High attention to detail, strong follow-through, and comfort working in a smaller, rapidly growing team environment.
• Low-ego leadership style with the ability to take direction while also bringing experience, autonomy, and confidence to the role.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of project management experience in industrial construction or capital projects. Candidates with 10-15+ years of relevant experience are especially attractive.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related technical field.
• PMP certification preferred. Candidates without a PMP may still be considered if they demonstrate strong project management discipline.
• Professional Engineer license is a plus, but not required.
• Experience with multidisciplinary scopes, including civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, geotechnical, surveying, material handling, and terminal infrastructure.
• Experience with terminals, rail infrastructure, barge infrastructure, bulk storage, loading systems, conveying systems, or industrial facility expansions.
• Spanish language ability is a plus, especially for communication with field personnel and team members.
• Proficiency with MS Excel, MS Project, project controls tools, and document management systems.
• AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or similar technical drawing review experience is a plus.

Project Scope

This role will support the continued development of industrial terminal and infrastructure projects. The candidate can expect to manage one medium-to-large project at a time while also supporting smaller facility improvement or continuous improvement projects as needed.

Upcoming work may include rail loading infrastructure, storage expansion, material handling systems, terminal improvements, and other capital projects across the company's U.S. footprint. Project sizes may range from smaller improvement projects to multimillion-dollar industrial capital projects.

Location and Travel

Tampa, FL is the preferred location for this role. Houston, TX may be considered for an exceptional candidate who can support projects with regular travel. This is not a fully remote position. The Project Manager must be able to spend time on project sites, work directly with field teams, and travel as needed based on project phase and construction activity.

Team Culture

The Projects Team values integrity, excellence, hard work, and passion. The right candidate will be honest, accountable, and willing to own their work without pointing fingers. This team does not cut corners and expects a high standard of quality in both planning and execution.

This role is best suited for someone who genuinely enjoys building things, solving problems, asking good questions in the field, and taking ownership of complex industrial projects from concept through completion. The ideal candidate is curious, practical, hands-on, and passionate about engineering, construction, and project execution.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in both office and active construction site environments.
• Ability to walk project sites, climb stairs or ladders, bend, squat, stoop, twist, and reach as needed.
• Ability to sit for extended periods and work at a computer.
• Ability to occasionally lift or carry up to 10 pounds.
• May be required to work at heights of up to 25 feet.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

The company is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities throughout the application and interview process.