Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 2592891
Date Posted: 10/7/2026 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Lynchburg, VA
Category: Manufacturing
Salary: $80,000 - $90,000
Job Description
The Project Manager serves as the primary liaison between customers, sales, onsite crews, and internal shop departments. The primary focus is maximizing customer service by establishing accurate project dates, maintaining clear and timely communication, and tracking projects from initial purchase order through production, shipment, and onsite execution.
This position is responsible for developing and maintaining project schedules, coordinating milestones across multiple departments, monitoring engineering releases and purchasing activities, tracking field progress and labor, and identifying schedule risks before they impact customer commitments. The Project Manager will also support onsite crews, evaluate project quality and performance, and coordinate manpower and resources to keep projects on schedule.
Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Project management, project coordination, scheduling, or related experience
- Strong customer-service and customer-relationship skills
- Ability to serve as the primary liaison between customers, sales, onsite crews, and internal departments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to establish, manage, and track detailed project schedules and milestone dates
- Ability to identify schedule risks and communicate potential delays
- Ability to work closely with sales and sales service to support accurate project quotes
- Ability to coordinate accurate and achievable project dates upon receipt of purchase orders
- Ability to conduct customer and internal project schedule meetings
- Ability to develop preliminary high-level project schedules
- Ability to create project timelines and phase drawings
- Ability to coordinate customer downtime requirements with project schedules
- Ability to track mechanical and electrical engineering release dates
- Ability to track purchasing activities and materials for assigned projects
- Ability to monitor departmental progress on equipment through the shop
- Ability to track project Change Notices
- Ability to maintain production schedules for assigned projects
- Ability to track equipment ship dates
- Ability to coordinate and order rental equipment based on project requirements
- Ability to review daily field reports and update project timelines accordingly
- Ability to provide weekly project status updates to management
- Ability to track project labor hours and supply-house trips
- Ability to coach crew chiefs on schedule performance and project execution
- Ability to evaluate crew chiefs and field crews
- Ability to perform quality checks on equipment associated with assigned projects
- Ability to ensure accurate and timely completion of daily project reports
- Ability to coordinate with other Project Managers on manpower scheduling
- Ability to work effectively across sales, engineering, purchasing, production, shop, and field-service functions
- Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and follow-through skills
- Ability to manage multiple project activities and deadlines simultaneously
- Ability to work primarily from the Lynchburg, VA office
- Ability and willingness to travel to project sites throughout the United States approximately 30% of the time
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Industrial equipment project management experience
- Manufacturing project management experience
- Engineering project coordination experience
- Field installation project experience
- Mechanical and electrical project experience
- Production scheduling experience
- Equipment installation or commissioning experience
- Experience coordinating onsite field crews
- Experience working with mechanical and electrical engineering departments
- Experience tracking procurement and equipment purchases
- Experience managing project change notices or change orders
- Experience with manpower and labor-hour planning
- Experience coordinating rental equipment and other field resources
- Experience performing equipment quality inspections
- Experience coaching or supervising field crews
- Experience developing project timelines and phase drawings
- Experience managing customer downtime requirements
- Experience working directly with sales teams and customers on project scope and scheduling
