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Our client is a North American service hub for one of the world's top steel equipment manufacturers -- they repair, refurbish, and re-manufacture heavy steel mill components for major steel producers across the country. Their Project Managers are on the shop floor daily, managing 40 to 60 active repair and refurbishment jobs at once for external customers.\nThis is a direct hire opportunity with full benefits at a stable, globally backed company.\nWhat you will be doing\nYou will own the full project lifecycle for incoming repair and refurbishment work -- from scoping and procurement through production coordination, schedule management, cost control, and customer delivery.\nDevelop project scopes of work and translate customer needs into production work orders\n\nIdentify parts to be procured or refurbished; coordinate purchasing with the Proposal Engineer and Production team\n\nMonitor job schedules and control costs across 40 to 60 active projects at a time\n\nServe as the primary customer contact from job intake through completion -- providing consistent, proactive updates\n\nConduct risk assessments and flag potential delays or cost overruns before they happen\n\nLead project kick-off meetings and keep Sales and Production aligned throughout\n\nInterpret engineering drawings and coordinate machining and fabrication activities accordingly\n\nWrite technical reports for customers and internal record keeping\n\nMaintain organized electronic documentation for every active job\n\nDomestic and international travel: 10 to 15 percent\n\nThe right background\nOur client's best Project Managers came up from the manufacturing and trades side -- machinists, millwrights, maintenance technicians -- because they understand what the work actually requires. You do not need to have \"Project Manager\" on your resume to be the right fit. You do need to be comfortable on an active industrial shop floor (steel-toed boots and hard hat are part of the routine), mechanically inclined enough to read drawings and understand machining and fabrication operations, and organized enough to keep dozens of concurrent jobs moving without dropping the ball.\nManufacturing, trades, or industrial shop experience strongly preferred\n\nAbility to manage 20 or more concurrent projects without losing track of any of them\n\nStrong customer communication -- you will be the voice of the company throughout every job\n\nProficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project or equivalent\n\nMechanical aptitude: reading technical drawings, understanding production operations\n\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field preferred but not required -- the right background matters more than the degree\n\nWhat the client offers\nDirect hire -- no temp period, no conversion\n\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage\n\nLife and disability insurance\n\n401(k) with employer match\n\nPaid time off accrual\n\nCareer growth within a global industrial organization","description_format":"text","description_chars":3246,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T02:24:24Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":19,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.339,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":26,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:2","agency","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-mural-group-manufacturing-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-mural-group-manufacturing-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-03T04:26:38Z","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":6065,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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":4418118},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4418118"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthe-mural-group-manufacturing-project-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Fthe-mural-group-manufacturing-project-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Fthe-mural-group-manufacturing-project-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/the-mural-group-manufacturing-project-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthe-mural-group-manufacturing-project-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2582550}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"themuralgroup.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2582550},"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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