Industrial Fabrication Program Manager, Bulk Material Handling

Job Description

Job Description

Lead Complex, One‑Off Builds from PO to Payment

It’s Monday morning in Burleson. A new purchase order hits your inbox for a custom bucket elevator destined for a West Texas mine. You confirm scope and ship terms, align drawings and submittals, and set the first milestones. By the afternoon, engineering is refining GA drawings, purchasing is lining up long-lead materials, and you’ve synchronized fabrication, paint, inspection, and shipping dates in the ERP. Midweek, a scope tweak becomes a priced change order—approved—while your milestone invoice goes out on time to keep cash moving. You’re the singular voice to the client, driving RFIs, coordinating QC hold points, and keeping everyone honest on schedule and margin.

Since 1976, iSC has engineered and built heavy industrial equipment in North Texas: screw conveyors, mixers, bucket elevators, silos, chutes, and large custom weldments supporting bulk material handling. Our customers operate mines, plants, and major EPC construction programs. Every build is engineered or made-to-order—no two alike. We’re investing in a dedicated project management team, and this ground‑floor role helps define how projects are run at iSC.

• Own projects end-to-end—from purchase order through final payment—covering schedule, margin, billing, and the customer relationship.
• Launch new orders by confirming scope, drawings, submittals, milestones, and shipping terms.
• Maintain a living schedule through engineering, purchasing, fabrication, paint, inspection, and shipment.
• Monitor actuals versus estimates for hours and materials; convert scope shifts into approved change orders.
• Initiate milestone/progress invoicing on time to support cash flow.
• Act as the client’s single point of contact for status updates, RFIs, drawing approvals, and QC coordination.
• Escalate risks early and bring recovery plans that protect commitments and margin.

• 5+ years delivering projects in custom steel fabrication, heavy equipment, or industrial manufacturing.
• Fluency reading GA and fabrication drawings, BOMs, and weld symbols.
• Hands-on experience with milestone/progress billing and managing change orders.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP (Fulcrum a plus) and strong Excel and Claude (AI) skills.
• Direct, early communication with customers and leadership about schedule reality.
• Supplying EPC firms is a strong plus (submittals, ITPs, QC hold points).
• Background in bulk material handling, and/or PMP, and/or an engineering or construction management degree is a plus.

• Real ownership: manage your portfolio of jobs with direct access to the owner.
• Impactful work: large, complex equipment for major industrial projects.
• Growth: a company investing in people, systems, and capacity.
• Benefits: health, dental, and vision insurance, plus PTO/Holidays.

Full-time, on-site in Burleson, TX, with occasional customer and vendor site visits.

• Industrial construction; construction management; supplier management
• Continuous improvement, Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma; 5 Why root-cause analysis
• Troubleshooting, process engineering, budgeting and forecasting

• ERP software (Fulcrum experience is a plus)