Project Manager

Watson Metal Masters

Job Title: Project Manager

Reports To: Vice President of Sales

Date Updated: July/8/2025

Job purpose

Responsible for oversight on cross-functional projects and obtaining certifications on different products. Lead multiple projects in different stages of development simultaneously, in relation to the engineering, design, production, procurement, construction and certification of the products before shipment. This position will have responsibility in making sure that the in all stages from development of projects are being met and on time.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with functional leaders to forecast, interpret, and utilize project data to successfully achieve milestones.
• Lead and implement a comprehensive project management plan that encompasses all critical functions across the project scope.
• Monitor and manage functional intervals to mitigate risk and ensure continuity across engineering, procurement, fabrication, and delivery stages.
• Identify project risk factors and proactively communicate them to leadership, along with viable mitigation strategies.
• Interface with the Production team to assess progress, review forecasts, guide project direction, and initiate course corrections as needed.
• Track and manage interrelated, co-dependent milestones throughout all phases of the project life cycle, from concept through delivery.
• Partner daily with internal departments—including Engineering, Purchasing, Quality Control, and Shipping—to review plans, anticipate delays, secure necessary documentation, and align deliverables.
• Stay informed on drawing schedules and contribute to supplier selection alongside Engineering, ensuring all parts and accessories meet project specifications.
• Maintain visibility into shop workflow to monitor schedule adherence and quickly address any deviations.
• Communicate regularly with customers to provide detailed updates, convey expectations, and supply photographic documentation as appropriate.
• Coordinate with the Shipping Department to secure optimal carriers and guarantee safe, timely, and cost-conscious delivery.
• Conduct post-project follow-ups with customers to collect feedback and evaluate satisfaction.
• Assess customer-requested changes to determine if a formal change order is required and initiate accordingly.
• Demonstrate fluency in analyzing detailed fabrication drawings and ensure alignment with project requirements.
• Deliver highly detailed reporting and data management across all project stages.
• Serve as an advisor to cross-functional teams to drive project completion on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Construction Management, Engineering preferred.
• Preferred experience in managing stainless tank manufacturing projects.
• Demonstrated successful experience in Project Management.
• Strong project management software experience required.
• Excellent conflict management skills.
• Must have strong leadership, critical thinking, and organizational skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as required.

Characteristics of a great Watson Metal Masters team member:

• A consummate team collaborator! You ensure alignment to core values, vision, and mission throughout the organization.
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  Intense and natural mission alignment with Watson Metal Masters.
• Love working in a fast paced, entrepreneurial culture. Thus, you thrive in building things successfully from scratch.
• A systems thinker who gets a charge out of progress and continuous improvement as much as big milestones

Travel

• Limited travel - 15% to customer locations

Physical requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; crouch and kneel; and must be able to talk and hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and depth perception.

Must observe safety procedures and use equipment and materials properly; must wear safety glasses and steel toe boots.

Direct Reports

Additional Information

This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. While it is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different duties/tasks be performed. I have read, understand and can perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.