Ampsortation
Project Manager
Portsmouth, Virginia. Posted 3 months ago
The role
The Project Manager leads onsite installation and deployment of complex recycling systems. This hands-on role manages installation scope, field schedules, budgets, site readiness, and contractor coordination.
What you will do
- Lead multiple concurrent system deployments from planning through closeout.
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules.
- Create installation execution plans for labor, equipment, and site constraints.
- Define and verify customer and site-readiness requirements.
- Coordinate customers, engineering, supply chain, and various field resources.
- Lead project kickoffs, reviews, and coordination meetings.
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, and scope changes.
- Monitor installation progress, quality, safety, and contractor performance.
- Resolve field issues involving drawings, materials, and site conditions.
- Manage mechanical and electrical completion and turnover to commissioning.
Required qualifications
- Eight or more years of experience managing industrial equipment installation, material-handling, automation, manufacturing, recycling, or capital-equipment deployment projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing projects from installation planning through mobilization, field execution, commissioning, customer acceptance and closeout.
- Experience coordinating mechanical installation, electrical installation, controls integration, rigging, equipment vendors and commissioning resources.
- Experience managing installation contractors, field crews, suppliers and third-party execution partners.
- Strong knowledge of installation scheduling, cost forecasting, change control, contractor coordination, field reporting, risk management and project closeout.
- Ability to read and coordinate equipment layouts, installation drawings, mechanical and electrical drawings, bills of materials and contractor scopes.
- Experience identifying site-readiness requirements and resolving field constraints before they affect installation or startup.
- Ability to lead teams in active industrial environments and make timely decisions with incomplete or changing field information.
- Ability to travel regularly and support evening or weekend work when required by installation or commissioning activities.
- Ability to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, communicate effectively, and occasionally lift or move up to 45 pounds.
Nice to have
- PMP or equivalent project management certification.
- Experience delivering integrated automated equipment, recycling systems, conveyorsystems, industrial controls, or material-processing equipment.
- Experience working in a project-based manufacturing, systems-integration, EPC, orindustrial-technology environment.
Benefits
- Medical - the company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
- Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance: the company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life
- Benefits start the day you start
- HSA Eligible Health Plans, Company Monthly Contributions!
- 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
- FTO - Flexible Time Off
- 6 Accrued Sick Days
- Eight (8) paid holidays
About the company
AMP applies AI-powered sortation to modernize recycling infrastructure. Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the company has operations across North America, Asia, and Europe.