Equipment & Controls, Inc. is a successful and innovative Emerson Impact Partner. ECI provides an entrepreneurial opportunity for each employee to achieve our common mission of Delivering Successful Customer Outcomes 100% of the Time. Our customer base includes oil and gas, chemical, power, food and beverage, mining and metals, life sciences, pulp and paper, refining, petrochemical, OEM and nuclear industries. With offices in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, ECI is the region’s leader in process control and industrial automation products and solutions. We seek individuals that share our passion for excellence.
Business Unit/Department: Process Systems & Solutions Group
Location: Lawrence, PA
Job Summary:
ECI is seeking a Project Manager to lead the execution of complex, customer-facing industrial automation projects. This role owns project delivery from proposal handoff through engineering, procurement, fabrication, testing, site execution, commissioning, startup, and closeout. The Project Manager is accountable for scope, schedule, cost, forecast, margin, risk, change control, customer communication, and overall project health across multiple concurrent projects. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed levels: setting direction for cross-functional teams, making timely decisions, anticipating risk, protecting commercial outcomes, and removing obstacles that affect customer commitments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple concurrent industrial automation projects of varying size and complexity from kickoff through closeout.
- Establish the project execution strategy, governance, communication cadence, milestones, deliverables, and decision-making structure.
- Validate customer expectations, proposal assumptions, scope, pricing, terms, schedule, and deliverables at project handoff; identify gaps before execution begins.
- Serve as the primary customer-facing project leader and build trusted relationships with customers, internal leadership, engineers, technicians, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Own the integrated project schedule and coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing or fabrication, testing, installation, commissioning, and startup activities.
- Manage project budgets, cost forecasts, resource plans, invoicing schedules, margin performance, and financial projections; communicate variances and corrective actions early.
- Establish and maintain a disciplined risk, issue, action, and change-control process. Quantify impacts, assign owners, track mitigation, and escalate when thresholds are exceeded.
- Evaluate scope changes for technical, schedule, cost, resource, and contractual impact; document decisions and update project baselines and forecasts after approval.
- Lead project reviews and status reporting that give customers and management a clear view of progress, risks, decisions, commitments, and recovery actions.
- Facilitate cross-functional problem solving and make timely tradeoff recommendations when priorities, resources, technical requirements, or customer expectations conflict.
- Coordinate factory acceptance testing, site installation, commissioning, startup, and issue resolution, including readiness planning and handoffs between project phases.
- Monitor project health and take ownership of recovery plans when projects are at risk of missing scope, schedule, budget, quality, or customer commitments.
- Complete project closeout, financial reconciliation, customer acceptance, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement actions.
- Contribute to project-management standards, estimating and handoff practices, resource planning, risk management, and team development across the organization.
