Mechanical Project Manager

Mechanical Project Manager

Location: Central Virginia

Base salary: $100,000–$130,000, depending on experience

Sign-on bonus: Up to $15,000, plus eligibility for the bonus program

Lead hands-on mechanical construction projects and see your team’s work take shape. This role offers technical and leadership training, mentorship, and opportunities to advance.

About the company

Our client is a mechanical, electrical, and service contractor that designs, builds, maintains, and supports building systems. Its teams serve commercial, industrial, and mission-critical facilities through construction, service, repair, industrial refrigeration, special projects, and in-house fabrication.

About the role

As Mechanical Project Manager, you’ll manage complex construction projects across Central Virginia, coordinating equipment, materials, subcontractors, schedules, and project teams from planning through closeout.

What you’ll do

• Manage estimates for equipment, materials, and subcontractors.
• Purchase and release non-commodity items.
• Oversee submittals, operations and maintenance documentation, and project closeout.
• Negotiate and price change orders.
• Develop initial project schedules.
• Submit RFIs and review responses for scope and cost impacts.
• Provide project information to Construction Managers, Superintendents, Fabrication, and Start-up teams.
• Coordinate detailing information with the Virtual Construction team.

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on project management experience in commercial, heavy industrial, or mission-critical construction.
• Experience managing projects lasting a year or longer.
• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering—preferably Mechanical—or in Building Construction or Construction Engineering Management.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and project management software.
• Knowledge of strategic planning, accounting, cost forecasting, and resource coordination.
• Diplomatic communication skills when working with owners, general contractors, subcontractors, engineers, Superintendents, and design teams.
• Knowledge of construction equipment and techniques, drawings, specifications, materials, engineering standards, and codes.