Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Meadville, PA
Employment Type: Direct Placement
Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
Compensation: Up to $110K/yr.
Schedule: M-F Business Hours **Onsite + up to 20% Travel within North America
About the Opportunity:
- Manage the capital projects, and monitor the manufacturing, delivery, and commissioning of new furnace or activities to ensure the delivery of high-quality furnaces, parts, and service on time and within budget by completion of tasks such as: review of furnace specifications and design drawings, management of project milestones to maintain project schedule, internal and external issue resolution, purchasing of accessory equipment, coordination of delivery, and trace the cash flow.
- Review each project scope of work to identify key milestones, ensure completeness of documentation, ensure compliance with relevant regulations, and to identify any potential risks related to the project execution.
- Conduct kickoff and regular project review meetings with both internal clients and external customers.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Review customer utility and facility drawings (if available) to assess and ensure the customer's preparation for furnace installation or rebuild.
- Complete detailed specification of accessory equipment and procure as necessary to fulfill the project specifications.
- Identify and secure the necessary contracting services to perform the installation activities as needed on a given project.
- Coordinate with engineering, project management, and field service departments at client as needed to ensure timely and efficient furnace/rebuild commissioning.
- Maintain clear communication with customers to ensure a positive experience through regular communications using both written (email, memos, SMS, etc.) and verbal (phone and conference calls, video conferencing, in person meetings, etc.).
- Maintain project budget through careful management of project expenditures.
- Identify opportunities for project execution process improvement across teams and client companies and report to them to responsible stakeholders.
- Manage project scope by Identifying change orders and coordinating a response with client sales staff.
- The client works with an informal management structure, this needs that all staff must take personal responsibility for their own work, provide assistance to other personal when necessary and notify appropriate staff of any concerns they have in areas that are not their primary responsibility.
- The client operates in a truly international environment, with staff and customers from many different countries; all staff are needed to be respectful of any cultural, religious, or political differences that may exist.
- Completes furnace related projects with a focus on customer satisfaction.
- Quickly responds to customer's needs.
- Facilitates clear and efficient communication between customer and client sister companies
- Helps to expand client's market share through suggestions for strategic market planning, product improvement and cost control.
- Practice self-education to stay abreast of latest management and sales techniques, and of political and industry affairs that could impact on our market.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 4+ years of project management experience within the industrial or manufacturing industry.
What Sets You Apart:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering.
- Furnace/heat treatment experience.
- Must have a high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must have superior customer-oriented attitude, verbal and written skills.
- Must possess knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems.
- Must have a high level of proficiency with Microsoft software and minimum proficiency in AutoCAD and SolidWorks.
- Must be able to prioritize and handle many tasks simultaneously and work with minimal supervision.
- Must be team-oriented, possess a positive attitude, and work well with others.
- Must be flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be detail-oriented.
- Independent problem solving and analysis skills from a technical and team related perspective through a sound engineering background.
- Well established written and verbal communications skills.
- Manage time through careful prioritization of tasks
- Willingness to learn and work in a cross functional technical environment.
- Basic project management skills pertaining to quality, cost, and schedule management.
- Ability to read and understand mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering drawings.
- Basic understanding of the thermal sciences, mechanical sciences, materials, electricity, and industrial controls.
- Ability to manage challenges in a customer focused environment in a cross functional, multi-national team.
- Exercise good management, people and presentation skills.
- Exercise good Microsoft Office software skills.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
- Ability and willingness to travel both domestically and internationally (20% of the time).
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
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Oct 30, 2026