Project Manager (32549)

Join UCC Environmental, a leader in sustainable technology solutions:

Looking for a career where your work has real impact? At UCC Environmental, you’ll join a company built on solving complex industrial challenges while advancing sustainable solutions for air, water, and solids handling around the world.

We’re a privately held, family-owned business with more than a century of experience supporting mission-critical industries. Our teams work with utility power providers and heavy industrial customers globally, delivering innovative solutions in environmental compliance, material handling, and high-performance aftermarket technologies.

At UCC Environmental, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and long-term customer relationships. With continued growth across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, we offer opportunities to contribute meaningfully to an expanding international business.

Headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, UCC owns and operates sales, manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing facilities across the United States, Canada, Germany, India, and China. If you're looking for a place where your ideas matter, your work has purpose, and your career can grow alongside a global organization, UCC Environmental could be the right fit!

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated capabilities in collaborating with others to perform engineering tasks within a team environment. Work experience with a privately-held company will be beneficial.

The Project Manager is responsible for execution of projects from pre-contract sales support through customer acceptance and final payment, ensuring that quality, schedule, cost, and performance goals are achieved. The Project Manager also serves as the primary point of coordination between customers, internal teams, subcontractors, and management to ensure successful project execution.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage projects to meet schedule, cost, and quality goals (design, supply, and/or construction scopes). 
• Properly manage the financial risk/reward relationship while providing creative solutions to remove obstacles and solve execution difficulties.
• Serve as a primary customer contact throughout the project lifecycle and maintain positive professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, change orders, and contract requirements.
• Review, execute, and manage subcontractor agreements including engineering and construction.
• Support pre-contract sales by providing proposal and pricing strategies.
• Review proposal documents and provide technical and commercial risk analysis.
• Coordinate fabrication shop activities as related to engineering, procurement, and customer interface.
• Demonstrate core values and beliefs during daily decision making. 
• Promote trust and loyalty through actions. 
• Deal with adversity by directing the crisis management effort. 
• All other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent work experience
• 2 or more years of Project Management experience preferred, Project Engineer experience acceptable
• Skid fabrication experience preferred including mechanical, electrical, and controls
• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred            
• Master of Project Management or Master of Business and Administration preferred
• Professional Engineer (PE) preferred

Characteristics and Skills:

• Strong understanding of project management methods and techniques.
• Strong understanding of basic engineering principles, practices, drawings and methods.
• Strong ability to multi-task, successfully manage demands of simultaneous activities.
• Excellent ability to examine and effectively resolve conflicts.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
• Strong computer skills including MS Office.  Working knowledge of MS Project or Primavera.
• Prior experience with Microsoft Dynamics or similar ERP software.
• Financial acumen and familiarity with basic accounting/financing processes.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality in difficult situations.
• Familiarity with AI toolsets.

Essential Physical Abilities:

• Ability to sit or stand at a computer for 80% of the day.
• Ability to climb up and down stairs and ladders.
• Ability to walk around industrial and utility facilities for extended periods and for several days in a row.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time.

Core Values and Beliefs

Must be aligned with Core Values and Beliefs that drive UCC’s existing corporate culture;

• People – we trust and invest in our people, unlocking their full potential and they always come first
• Teamwork – we respect others and create a collaborative working environment of inclusion and inspiration
• Integrity – we are truthful and respectful to customers, employees, community and suppliers
• Customer Satisfaction – we keep existing customers by delivering exceptional customer service
• Innovative –we encourage resourceful problem solving in the face of adversity

Compensation and Benefits

Base Pay Range:         $100,000 to $140,000 annual pay based on skills and experience

Benefits:         

• Insurance:  Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, Employee Assistance Programs and Voluntary Options such as Vision, HSA, FSA (Medical, Dental, Vision and Dependent Care), Accident, Identity Theft, Legal coverage
• Retirement: 401(k) with up to 4% company match, Pre-Tax and Roth Options, and discretionary Annual Profit-Sharing contribution
• Time Off: 10 days of Vacation, Vacation Purchase Plan up to 10 days purchased per year, 5 days of Sick and 10 Holidays, Parental Leave, FMLA
• Miscellaneous: Student Debt Assistance, Tuition Reimbursement, Certification and License Reimbursement, Personalized Professional Development Plans and Career Path Options.

How to Apply:

If interested in this position, please apply online via our website at https://uccenvironmental.com/careers/ and select Explore Current Openings to apply for this position online.

UCC Environmental is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Disability/Veteran. If you have difficulty applying for this job online, by e-mail, or need accommodations, please call us at 847-473-5900 and ask for Human Resources.