Overview: The Project Manager provides expertise and support in a variety of areas including:
- Client Management
- Facilitates and Ensures Operational Efficiency
- Resource Planning and Coordination
- Quality Assurance
- Schedule Development and Support
- Engineering Effort Estimation
- Capital Cost Estimation
- Staff and Cost Forecasting
- Proposal Preparation
- Effort Hour Metric Interpretation
REPORTS TO: Engineering Operations Manager
BASIC DUTIES:
Ensure planning for, and efficient use of, engineering resources
Monitor and facilitate timely delivery of project deliverables
Calibrate deliverables to an appropriate level required by Salas O’Brien standards and project needs
Manage client, supplier, and subcontractor expectations and coordination
Develop, interpret, and maintain effort hour metrics
SPECIFIC DUTIES:
- Management
- Ensure timeliness of Project Kick Off Meetings, SMACC reviews, Project Close Out Meetings, and Project Reporting
- Collaborate and support weekly resource planning
- Engineering project scope management
- Cost forecasting
- Facilitate effective communication and information exchange between the project team (including owner, equipment suppliers, and subcontractors)
- Engineering
- Develop engineering estimates and proposals
- Support and execute conceptual, preliminary, and detail engineering
- Develop project capital cost estimates
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering and/or Management
- 2+ years’ experience in engineering (preferably related to construction or heavy industrial)
- Excellent communications skills, highly organized, detail oriented, and a positive attitude
- Minimal travel is required.
- Able to lift 25 pounds, ascend industrial structures unaided
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Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering and/or Management
- 2+ years of engineering experience, preferably related to construction or heavy industrial work
- Excellent communication skills
- Highly organized and detail oriented
- Positive attitude
- Able to lift 25 pounds
- Able to ascend industrial structures unaided
- Minimal travel
Salas O'Brien Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare options include multiple medical, dental, and vision plans with an individual medical option at no premium, plus no‑cost preventive medications and mental‑health resources. Employer‑paid disability and life coverage further strengthen the safety net.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes a base PTO allotment plus company office‑closure days and paid parental leave for births, adoptions, and foster placements. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave is a standout component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) employer match with a potential additional company stock contribution, along with RRSP support in Canada and a student‑loan payment 401(k) match in the U.S. These features provide structured long‑term savings support beyond base pay.
Salas O'Brien Insights
What We Do
Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and technical services firm focused on advancing the human experience through the built environment. Our team is engineered for impact™, helping clients achieve critical goals, advancing our team members through growth and opportunity, and operating at the center of important global issues, including sustainability and decarbonization. We are a top firm as ranked by Engineering News-Record and Consulting-Specifying Engineer, and we have appeared for over a decade on the Inc. 5000 list of North America’s fastest-growing private companies.
