Senior Project Manager

Senior Manager Project Manager

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The Senior Manager Project Manager is responsible for designing, leading, and continuously improving the way OsecoElfab delivers customer-driven, engineered-to-order projects across the US and UK. This role owns the project delivery frameworkprocesses, tools, governance, and cross-functional coordinationwhile also managing a portfolio of strategic customer projects as a hands-on Project Manager.

This leader ensures that projects move seamlessly through Sales, Engineering, Planning, Operations, and Quality, delivering on customer requirements with precision, speed, and exceptional communication. The Senior Manager of Project Operations plays a critical role in strengthening OsecoElfab's reputation for reliability, responsiveness, and technical excellence.

In addition to the outlined responsibilities, all employees are expected to consistently uphold and embody our company's core values and behaviors in their daily work, fostering a culture of integrity, collaboration, and excellence.

Project Delivery Leadership

• Own and continuously improve the global project delivery process, including workflows, stage gates, documentation, and governance.
• Ensure consistent execution of customer-driven projects across Tulsa, the UK, and other global sites.
• Develop and maintain project KPIs (OTD, cycle time, margin performance, customer satisfaction) and drive accountability across functions.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Sales to resolve bottlenecks, improve throughput, and enhance cross-functional alignment.

Hands-On Project Management

• Manage a portfolio of complex, high-visibility customer projects from order acceptance through shipment.
• Serve as the primary customer contact for project scope, schedule, communication, and risk management.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables, production schedules, testing, and documentation requirements.
• Ensure projects meet technical specifications, regulatory requirements, and internal quality standards.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and mentor Project Coordinators, assigned Project Managers, or cross-functional project contributors (depending on structure).
• Build capability in project planning, communication, risk management, and customer engagement.
• Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Process, Systems & Tools

• Implement and optimize project management tools (Click-Up, ERP, CRM, dashboards, templates, workflows).
• Standardize documentation, communication protocols, and customer-facing project materials.
• Drive adoption of best practices in project planning, scheduling, and change control.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a senior escalation point for customer project issues.
• Support Sales and Marketing with project insights, feasibility assessments, and customer communication strategies.
• Represent Project Operations in cross-functional leadership forums.

This job description provides a comprehensive overview of the main responsibilities expected in this role. However, it is not an all-encompassing list and may be updated in the future to reflect changing role requirements and business needs.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Project governance and process design
• Technical aptitude and engineering literacy
• Customer-centric communication
• Cross-functional leadership
• Situational Leadership Skills
• Risk management and decision-making
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Data-driven performance management

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in project management within manufacturing, engineered-to-order products, or industrial equipment.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional project delivery processes.
• Strong understanding of engineering workflows, production planning, and quality systems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex customer projects with technical requirements.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred

• Experience in pressure relief devices, process safety, industrial equipment, or adjacent technical industries.
• PMP, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.
• Experience leading multi-site or global project teams.
• ERP/CRM proficiency (e.g., D365, Salesforce).
• Productivity and project management platform software experience (e.g., ClickUP, MS Project)