Highlights
The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background and experience managing capital projects from initial scope and budgeting through construction, commissioning, and final handoff. Sterling Engineering is partnering with a leading heavy industrial manufacturer to hire an Engineering Project Manager II in Gary, IN.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Gary, IN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
Description
Sterling Engineering is partnering with a leading heavy industrial manufacturer to hire an Engineering Project Manager II in Gary, IN. This position will lead complex capital improvement projects within a large, active manufacturing facility. The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background and experience managing capital projects from initial scope and budgeting through construction, commissioning, and final handoff.
Location: Gary, IN 46320
Salary: $100,000–$125,000 + annual bonus
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Relocation: Relocation assistance available
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), and annual bonus incentive.
Responsibilities
- Lead capital engineering projects from concept and business case development through construction, commissioning, and closeout.
- Manage project scope, budgets, schedules, risks, and change management activities.
- Develop scopes of work, cost estimates, feasibility studies, and capital funding requests.
- Manage projects typically up to $5M, with potential responsibility for projects valued up to $25M.
- Review engineering drawings, P&IDs, specifications, and equipment designs.
- Coordinate outside engineering firms, contractors, equipment suppliers, and internal project teams.
- Partner with operations, maintenance, procurement, finance, and EHS throughout project execution.
- Oversee equipment installation, construction activities, testing, startup, and commissioning.
- Ensure projects meet safety, environmental, technical, schedule, and budget requirements.
- Support the use of modern project management, automation, and AI-based tools to improve project planning and execution.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 5–7+ years of project management experience within heavy industrial or manufacturing environments.
- Proven experience managing capital projects from scope development through commissioning.
- Experience managing multimillion-dollar capital projects.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, P&IDs, and technical specifications.
- Strong project scheduling, budgeting, contractor management, and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Experience working within an active manufacturing or industrial facility.
- Steel, metals, mining, petrochemical, or similar heavy industrial experience is highly preferred.
- PMP, OSHA 10/30, Primavera P6, EPCM, Lean, or Six Sigma experience is a plus.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.