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As a leading solutions provider serving a diverse range of markets across the United States, our commitment to innovation, quality, and sustainability has positioned us as a high growth, diversified and empowered Team of more than 10,000! Your adventure awaits!\nAt Marine/Design Concepts, a division of Patrick Industries, we deliver precision-engineered FRP tooling and components, supported by customized engineering solutions for the marine industry and specialty composites partners. Our commitment to safety, quality, and precision ensures that every component meets rigorous standards and is delivered with the reliability our customers expect.\nThe Program Manager is responsible for the overall initiation, planning, monitoring, and successful completion of complex, multi-phase customer projects. This position oversees projects involving engineering, procurement, fabrication, tooling, and composite manufacturing activities, ensuring that all deliverables meet established scope, schedule, quality, and budget requirements.\nServing as the primary point of contact for assigned customers, the Program Manager develops and maintains strong customer relationships, manages expectations, coordinates internal and external resources, and ensures customer satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have experience in composite manufacturing, fiberglass construction, or tooling, along with strong business acumen, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple technically complex projects simultaneously.\nEssential Job Functions & Responsibilities\nDevelop project quotations and proposals for existing and prospective customers, including comprehensive project cost estimates.\nBuild and maintain long-term customer relationships through consistent communication, responsiveness, and follow-through.\nRepresent the company at industry trade shows, customer meetings, and site visits to support business development and customer relationships.\nServe as the primary point of contact for assigned customers and provide regular project updates, addressing concerns and managing expectations.\nWork closely with Project Coordinators and cross-functional departments to establish project scope, objectives, schedules, budgets, and deliverables.\nEnsure project proposals, contracts, statements of work, and objectives are clearly defined and documented.\nMonitor project progress, costs, schedules, and customer expectations to ensure projects remain within established budgets and timelines.\nNegotiate and manage changes to project scope, schedules, and costs with customers and subcontractors, including the preparation and approval of change orders.\nCoordinate communication and action plans among management, engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, and customers.\nReview engineering drawings, specifications, and design changes, evaluating manufacturability, tooling complexity, cost, and schedule impacts.\nIdentify and address potential project and manufacturing risks, including capacity constraints, design changes, material availability, and production delays.\nDevelop and implement corrective actions and mitigation strategies to minimize project disruptions.\nPrepare and present project status reports, financial updates, and progress reviews to management and customers.\nCoordinate project closeout activities, including contract completion, final deliverables, and formal customer acceptance.\nIdentify secondary market opportunities for fiberglass reinforced tooling or fiberglass reinforced manufactured parts.\nSupport operational development and advancement of standards pertinent to our business.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.\nExperience in composite manufacturing, fiberglass construction, tooling, or a related manufacturing environment.\nDemonstrated ability to manage complex projects involving multiple departments and competing priorities.\nStrong understanding of manufacturing processes, project planning, scheduling, and cost management.\nExcellent communication, organizational, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to identify and resolve project-related issues while managing changing priorities.\nAbility to communicate effectively with customers, management, engineering, manufacturing personnel, and suppliers.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with CNC machining, composite layup processes, and tooling materials.\nKnowledge of fiberglass and FRP manufacturing processes.\nExperience with project estimating, budgeting, and contract management.\nPrevious experience managing customer programs within the marine or specialty composites industry.\nPhysical & Work Environment Requirements\nAbility to work in a manufacturing environment with exposure to machinery, tooling, fiberglass, and composite materials.\nOccasional travel to customer and supplier locations as required.\nRegular travel between company facilities to support project coordination and operational requirements. Occasional travel to OEM partner facilities in support of current and future opportunities.\nAbility to participate in customer meetings, production reviews, and project-related site visits.\nAt Patrick Industries, BETTER Together is our commitment to being our best while striving to bring out the best in one another as we join forces Individually, as Teams, with our Business Units, with our Customers, our Communities and within our entire Patrick family.\nPatrick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5793,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":10,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T14:14:55Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-13T16:30:57Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/patrickind-program-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/patrickind-program-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T16:30:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33122,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3146988},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3146988"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpatrickind-program-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpatrickind-program-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpatrickind-program-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/patrickind-program-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpatrickind-program-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4256127}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"patrickind.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4256127},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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