Manufacturing Project Manager
The Mural Group
Manufacturing Project Manager
The Mural Group
Interim leadership, direct hire, consulting
Location: Ashland, KY (onsite)
Type: Permanent · Full time · Daily shop-floor presence, 10–15% travel
An industrial equipment and service company is hiring a Manufacturing Project Manager for its heavy repair center, which rebuilds and remanufactures steel mill components for producers around the country. You'll run dozens of customer repair jobs at once from the shop floor. Many of the best people in this seat came up through the trades.
What you'll do
Scope incoming repair jobs and turn customer needs into production work orders
Decide what gets bought versus refurbished, and coordinate purchasing with engineering and production
Track schedules and control costs on every active job, raising delay or overrun risk early
Be the customer's main contact from intake to delivery, with regular updates
Run kickoffs and coordinate machining and fabrication from drawings
Write technical reports, keep clean job files, and travel 10–15% (domestic and international)
What you bring
Manufacturing, trades or industrial shop background (a PM title isn't required)
Ability to keep 20+ jobs moving at once without dropping any
Clear, steady customer communication
Mechanical aptitude: reading drawings and understanding machining and fabrication
Excel and MS Project or similar, and comfort in boots and a hard hat every day
Nice to have: Mechanical engineering or related degree.
Benefits: medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, paid time off.
Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.
Interim leadership, direct hire, consulting
The Mural Group provides on-demand senior talent and consulting services to mid-market, private equity–backed portfolio companies. It offers three pillars: interim and fractional leadership (such as CFO or Controller), direct hire and executive search for permanent senior roles, and project-based consulting for initiatives like system implementations, financial reporting improvements, and merger integration. It matches experienced professionals to client assignments on a flexible, as-needed basis so clients can address leadership gaps without full-time commitments. With founders and partners from Big Four accounting and executive search, the firm focuses on the private equity ecosystem and aims to support portfolio companies through growth, transformation, and transaction work like due diligence, integration, and carve-outs.
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