# Technical Project Manager

**Company:** [Laborup](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/ovuPP5YYEqmkdXDcoPbN88.md)
**Location:** Oak Ridge, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

We are hiring an **Estimator / Project Manager** to own custom fabrication projects from initial customer request through final delivery at our manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, TN.

This is a true **high-mix, low-volume job shop environment**. Customers come to us with drawings, specifications, and unique fabrication needs. Your job is to determine:

-   **Can we build it?**
-   **How should we build it?**
-   **What will it cost?**
-   **How long will it take?**
-   **What needs to happen to get it delivered successfully?**

From there, you will manage the project through **machining, welding, electrical, and assembly**, coordinating internal production, materials, outside vendors, schedules, and customer expectations. This is not a position where you estimate a job and hand it off. You will have **ownership throughout the project lifecycle**, serving as the link between the customer and the shop floor.

**Why Join Us?**

-   **Own Projects Start to Finish:** Take projects from RFP and estimating through manufacturing and final delivery.
-   **True Job Shop Environment:** Work on a constantly changing mix of custom projects rather than repetitive production.
-   **Technical Variety:** Support projects spanning machining, welding, electrical, fabrication, and assembly.
-   **Customer Exposure:** Build direct relationships with customers and become their primary point of contact.
-   **Cross-Functional Role:** Work closely with engineering, purchasing, vendors, and skilled trades throughout the facility.

**Compensation**

-   Starting Salary: Approximately $70k/yr
-   M-F, ~7:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

## Requirements

**Responsibilities**

-   **Project Ownership:** Manage multiple custom fabrication projects simultaneously from initial customer request through completion and delivery.
-   **Estimating:** Develop labor, material, purchased component, outside-process, cost, and lead-time estimates for incoming projects.
-   **Manufacturing Planning:** Determine how projects should move through machining, welding, electrical, assembly, and outside processes.
-   **Customer Management:** Serve as a primary point of contact for assigned customers, communicating pricing, schedules, progress, questions, and changing requirements.
-   **Shop Coordination:** Work directly with machinists, welders, technicians, assemblers, and engineers to answer questions and keep jobs moving.
-   **Scheduling:** Manage project timelines and shop workflow while balancing multiple jobs with different priorities and delivery dates.
-   **Purchasing & Vendors:** Coordinate with purchasing and outside suppliers to obtain pricing, materials, services, and accurate lead times.
-   **Technical Review:** Review RFPs, drawings, blueprints, specifications, dimensions, and tolerances to understand project requirements and manufacturing feasibility.
-   **Problem Solving:** Respond to changing drawings, material issues, vendor delays, shop constraints, and customer requests while keeping projects on track.
-   **Production Coordination:** Participate in daily production meetings and provide updates on project status, requirements, bottlenecks, and delivery schedules.
-   **Inspection Support:** Assist the machine shop with dimensional inspection and other technical project needs when necessary.

**Qualifications**

**Required**

-   **Manufacturing Background:** Experience working in a manufacturing environment with an understanding of how parts move from drawings and raw materials through production and delivery.
-   **Project Management:** Proven ability to manage projects, schedules, materials, customers, vendors, or production priorities.
-   **Customer Communication:** Comfortable communicating directly with customers through both phone and email and taking ownership of follow-ups.
-   **Organization:** Ability to manage numerous active projects and priorities without allowing deadlines, details, or customer commitments to fall through the cracks.
-   **Blueprint Reading:** Ability to read and interpret manufacturing drawings, dimensions, tolerances, and technical specifications.
-   **Technical Aptitude:** Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials, measuring equipment, and shop-floor terminology.
-   **Problem Solving:** Able to adapt quickly when schedules, materials, drawings, or customer priorities change.
-   **Shop-Floor Communication:** Comfortable working directly with machinists, welders, fabricators, technicians, engineers, and purchasing personnel.

**Preferred**

-   **Job Shop Experience:** Experience in a **high-mix, low-volume job shop or custom fabrication environment** where every project may require a different manufacturing approach.
-   **Custom Fabrication:** Experience supporting projects involving CNC machining, welding, fabrication, electrical work, and/or assembly.
-   **Estimating Experience:** Experience developing manufacturing estimates involving labor, materials, purchased components, outside processes, and lead times.
-   **Engineering Background:** Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline. **Equivalent manufacturing experience will also be considered.**
-   **CAD Experience:** Familiarity with AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, or similar 2D/3D CAD software.
-   **GD&T / Inspection:** Understanding of geometric tolerancing, dimensional inspection, gauges, and precision measuring equipment.
-   **Vendor Coordination:** Experience sourcing materials or outside manufacturing processes and managing supplier pricing and lead times.

## Benefits

-   **Medical & Vision Insurance**
-   **Health Savings Account:** Employer HSA contribution
-   **401(k):** Generous company matching program
-   **Paid Time Off:** Competitive PTO package that increases with tenure
-   **Paid Holidays:** Multiple company-paid holidays throughout the year
-   **Additional Paid Leave:** Bereavement and jury duty leave
-   **Schedule Flexibility:** Flexible scheduling opportunities available with tenure
-   **On-Site Amenities:** Employee fitness and recreational facilities