Job Description
Job DescriptionSalary: $90,000 - $120,000
Fabrication Project Manager
Equal Opportunity Statement:
QTC Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.
Time base: Full-Time
FLSA Status: Salaried Exempt
Department: Steel and Structural Services Division
Job Summary: Under general direction of the VP of Steel and Structural Services, the Fabrication Project Manager (PM) leads the success of the fabrication department through relationships, performance, financials, growth and development, accountability, and reporting. The PM is both a leader and a managerresponsible for, direct reports, shop crews, and managing cross-departmental and third-party stakeholder relationships.
Key responsibilities include estimating and bidding, maintaining financial accountability, ensuring project quality, managing workload projections, and driving a culture of servant leadership and continuous improvement.
Duties and Responsibilities
Bidding, Estimating & Submittals
- Scope fabrication projects (small and large)
- Review bids, analyze problems, and propose solutions
- Prepare and submit change orders (COs)
- Understand and apply market value of services
Financial Management
- Accurately complete Work in Progress (WIP) reports monthly
- Ensure projects are completed within budget
- Forecast financial performance (monthly and quarterly)
Office Leadership
- Manage productive customer relationships and communications
- Provide weekly project updates (internal and external)
- Ensure timely responses to all emails (within 24 hours)
- Take full ownership of department output and solutions
- Lead weekly and monthly department meetings
- Promote a positive, rewarding, and fun culture for the office team
Construction & Fabrication Management
- Oversee fabrication shop quality control
- Conduct final quality checks on all departmental products
- Maintain accurate workload projections (2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months)
- Develop and update project schedules and forecasts weekly (or more often as needed)
- Monitor performance of teams and self, course-correcting as required
- Proactively hold performance and improvement conversations with staff
- Reward and motivate shop crews to maintain strong morale
Leadership & Growth
- Lead role in training, mentoring, and advancing employees
- Demonstrate and apply a team first leadership style supporting department, division, organization, and clients
- Implement change and improve processes where needed
Required Skills and Abilities
- Servant leadership and customer service mindset
- Strong communication and emotional intelligence
- Workload and resource management skills
- Estimating and scheduling expertise
- Financial forecasting and accountability
- Conflict resolution and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to delegate tasks effectively and anticipate needs
- Process builder and driver of continuous improvement
- Trustworthy, motivational, and team-oriented leadership style
Education and Experience
- 5+ years experience in fabrication, construction, or project management
- 3+ years leadership or supervisory experience
- Strong estimating and scheduling background preferred
- High school diploma or equivalent (college or technical background a plus)
At Will Statement:
QTC Inc. is an at-will employer which means that your employment may be ended at any time, with or without reason, by the employee or the employer, with or without notice.