Senior Project Manager - Mechanical

Looking to lead high-impact projects with a top-tier Mechanical team? We're hiring a Senior Project Manager to drive complex mechanical builds from concept to completion. If you're a proven leader with strong field experience, budget savvy, and a passion for collaboration, this is your chance to shape the future of construction. Join a team that values innovation, safety, and growth.

RK Industries is a second-generation family-owned company led by brothers Rick and Jon Kinning. With seven specialized business units working together, we deliver construction, fabrication, manufacturing, and building services with a focus on safety, quality, and craftsmanship.

People join RK for the craftsmanship, complexity, and the ability to make a real impact. With so much work designed and fabricated in-house, ideas move quickly from concept to shop floor to job site. Teams collaborate across disciplines, solve real-world challenges, and grow through hands-on work that truly matters.

With RK University, accredited apprenticeships, competitive benefits, and deep community investment, RK offers the stability of a family-owned company with the opportunity and momentum of an industry leader.

• Manage and supervise day-to-day operations of staff teams on assigned projects.
• Initiate, review and oversee required project administration and documentation to avoid claims and protect the best interest of RK Mechanical, Inc. and our client.
• Ensure contract agreements are expeditiously secured, reviewed, processed and executed.
• Review, edit, finalize and distribute project budget.
• Conduct pre-construction turnover meetings for all assigned projects.
• Ensure required permits and/or licenses are obtained and posted.
• Initiate setup, monitoring and updating of project scheduling.
• Coordinate required procurement of materials and equipment with purchasing agent, with emphasis on buyout plan to meet, or improve on, established schedule dates and budget cost.
• Subcontract agreement negotiation, preparation, processing and execution.
• Ensure required submittal review, processing and approvals, and submittal logs are set-up and maintained.
• Develop, submit and obtain approval of billing schedule of values.
• Maintain an over billed cash position, and request retention release bill-down/payments.

• Train and develop a high-performance Operations team.
• Provide leadership for safety and team culture of operations team.
• Provide the direction to create operations processes and procedures.
• Implement project management programs including policies, practices, procedures, systems, and documentation.
• Provide management of project accounting, project cost and trend reports, work-in-progress, productivity reporting, and monthly forecasts in conjunction with the business unit leadership.
• Review and monitor the project management team preparation and setup of budgets, billings and change orders.
• Manage and coordinate with subcontractors and suppliers.
• Coordinate timely completion of procurement procedures in conjunction with the purchasing team.
• Coordinate ordering, processing, and delivery of materials and equipment with vendors and central procurement personnel.
• Responsible for initiating, overseeing, and verifying billings to maintain over-billed and over-cash positions.
• Ensure turnover and pre-production planning meetings are conducted.
• Ensure prompt review and processing of purchase orders, contracts and subcontract agreements.
• Maintain exceptional owner, customer, engineer and vendor relationships.
• Continuously improve procedures, productivity and efficiency utilizing input from the team members.
• Support Account Executives with technical support and budget review.
• Work with CAD/VDC personnel for project needs.
• Manage projects through multi-discipline shop fabrication process.
• Coordinate production strategies with operations management and production teams.
• Has deep multi-discipline experience in Project Management, Product Management, and Integration.
• Leader with exceptional attention to detail, communication, administrative skills and work ethic.
• Results oriented with ability to plan and deliver against deadlines.
• Experience in a fast‑paced hands‑on business environment with responsibility for a team.
• Ability to negotiate critical and controversial issues with Company leadership.
• Ability to make authoritative decisions and recommendations having significant impact on the Company.
• Demonstrates a high degree of creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing and guiding extensive programs and activities of importance.
• Experience with ERP and project management systems; including Viewpoint, Bluebeam and CAD/VDC systems.

• Responsible for one or more programs/functions of such diversity and scope to be of critical importance to overall company objectives.
• Negotiates critical and controversial issues with top-level employees and officers.
• Plays a role in company business strategy development and execution.
• Makes…