Project Manager

About This Role

Merrick & Company is seeking an experienced Project Manager responsible for the success of energy, manufacturing, and bioprocessing projects, emphasizing client satisfaction and securing future work. This role involves overseeing project planning, managing multi-discipline engineering teams, and contributing to business development. The Project Manager will ensure quality delivery for clients, primarily through repeat business.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project planning, earned value management, technical leadership, quality control, and client satisfaction
• Manage project teams with multi-discipline engineering discipline leads
• Master and implement industry best practices from PMI, CII, and AACE
• Inform engineering discipline leads of resource requirements
• Travel to client sites several times per month for design meetings and new work development
• Contribute to business development and meeting with clients to develop scopes of work
• Contribute to corporate and business unit strategic planning efforts
• Meet with clients to prepare and/or validate proposed scope of work, including client development, proposal assistance, project planning, estimating, scheduling, and establishing project controls
• Potentially serve as an account manager for key clients

Requirements

• 10+ years of project execution experience, preferably in design engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management for A-E firms, including managing budgeted and scheduled design effort, and demonstrated skills in developing multi-discipline teams
• Experience executing multi disciplinary design and construct projects
• Solid understanding of industrial energy projects, both greenfield and retrofit
• Thorough understanding of earned value management, project scheduling, and risk management
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Valid driver's license with a good driving record and insurable under Merrick’s insurance carrier

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering - all degrees considered; Mechanical, Civil, and Chemical degrees will be most applicable to this position
• 10+ years of experience of project execution, preferably in design engineering

Nice to Have

• Professional Engineering License
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Recent successful project experiences involving industrial manufacturing, food and personal care, renewable energy, fuels, fermentation, sterile systems, boilers, water treatment, CHP and power

Benefits