Arcosa Hiring for Project Manager – Internal Customer Focus Job at Fort Worth, TX Full Time

Meyer Utility Structures, an Arcosa subsidiary, is hiring for a Project Manager- Internal Customer Focus, for our office located in Ft. Worth, TX. Meyer Utility Structures is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete, lattice, and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications, including Traffic and Telecom structures . With over sixty years of innovative engineering and manufacturing expertise, Meyer has helped to author and validate many of today’s transmission industry standards and specifications.

In this role, the Value Stream Project Manager (PM) will report to the Value Stream Manager and work with all members of the Value Stream team to develop and execute plans to deliver designs, drawings, pricing, and the end product to Arcosa’s partner companies (customers). The PM will perform all activities including, but not limited to, preparing job estimates, managing approval cycles, scheduling and managing project tasks across Value Stream team members, coordinating customer delivery schedules, assisting field services with any field issues and monthly project performance reviews. In this role, the Project Manager will also be required to perform Project Administrator (PA) functions, including but not limited to, setting up orders in Meyer’s ERP system, performing change orders and working with internal departments and fabrication plants to process project changes.

What you’ll do:

• With support from the customer and plant personnel, develop estimating tools using Excel and revise and refine these tools monthly or quarterly to improve precision and functionality.
• Provide final pricing to the customer on bid jobs.
• Define and develop a library of customer drawings with support from the customer, engineering and modeling teams.
• Enter job information and billables in Meyer’s ERP system.
• Act as a liaison between the customer and Meyer Utility Structures (MUS), providing schedule updates and change order management coordination to the customer including providing customer’s feedback to the production team.
• Develop project schedules and manage projects to the schedule on a daily basis using Visual Management capabilities.
• Work with the VSM and the plant to meet customer expectations.
• Identify potential project issues, work with operations to develop mutually agreed upon mitigation actions and report out to the customer.
• Assist Functional Manager as needed to monitor and report on quality issues, rework levels and productivity.
• Coordinate closely with the customer to ensure expectations are met while maximizing profits for MUS.
• With support from the Operations and estimating team, develop pricing that is in compliance with customer requirements and optimized to capture/maintain business and achieve maximum margins.
• Ensure change orders are managed properly, pricing revisions are captured and optimized, and schedules are modified to the satisfaction of the customer (where possible) and can be supported by all functions.
• Interface with plants to coordinate a variety of post-sales service functions.
• Build and maintain Standard Work Procedures for each internal customer.
• Work with operations to improve data capture during fabrication and perform plant closing analysis on a periodic basis to drive down costs and improve efficiencies.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of two years technical and customer account administration experience.
• Preferably more than one (1) year of managing large projects.
• Working knowledge of utility structures industry preferred

Required Soft Skills:

• Intermediate level of communication skills specifically for providing direction to team members and building customer relationships.
• Basic level of understanding of legal terms and language pertaining to supply contracts.
• Basic knowledge of commodities markets and how they pertain to pricing and supply contracts.
• Basic understanding of cost drivers within structure designs.
• Basic level of ability to manage expectations within a project.