Technical Project Manager

Job Title: CWP Technical Project Manager.

Department: CWP Engineering.

Reports to: Welded Products Manager.

Location: Metal Business Unit.

Pay Rule: Salary.

Job Summary:
This position supports the Welded Products Manager by leading engineering project planning, technical coordination, execution, tracking, and closeout for Custom Welded Products projects. The role works with engineering, production, quality, purchasing, suppliers, and customers to complete project milestones, technical deliverables, validation activities, and controlled documentation effectively and on time.

Final technical approval remains with the appropriate engineering, quality, or functional authority, while this role coordinates inputs, tracks decisions, and ensures required approvals are completed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Welded Products Manager to define project priorities, scope, deliverables, timelines, resource needs, and execution plans that support production readiness, customer requirements, and business unit priorities.
• Lead cross-functional engineering project execution for custom welded assemblies, burst plugs, and related pressure relief products from concept review through design release, validation, production readiness, and documentation completion.
• Maintain project plans, milestone schedules, action item trackers, risk analyses, meeting notes, and decision logs to support accountability, visibility, and timely follow-up.
• Coordinate technical inputs, drawing reviews, test requirements, supplier information, customer feedback, and internal approvals with the appropriate technical or functional owners.
• Facilitate completion and controlled release of APQP, validation, manufacturing, and customer-required project documentation.
• Coordinate welding-related project activities, including qualification timing, test scheduling, certification scope, and customer or standard-specific requirements, with qualified technical personnel.
• Lead project review meetings, communicate status, document decisions, follow up on actions, identify barriers, and escalate unresolved issues as appropriate.
• Identify and escalate quality, safety, customer impact, schedule, supplier capability, requirement clarity, and workload risks with objective evidence, recommended next steps, clear ownership, and appropriate urgency.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Project Management, Manufacturing, Operations, or a closely related discipline.
• Project management training, PMP, CAPM, or equivalent certification is preferred. Equivalent experience leading cross-functional engineering, product development, or manufacturing projects will also be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to manage engineering project scope, schedules, priorities, risks, stakeholder communication, follow-up, decision support, and closeout activities in a technical manufacturing environment.
• Ability to understand and coordinate technical information, including engineering drawings, customer specifications, manufacturing requirements, inspection records, test results, and controlled documentation.
• Knowledge of pressure relief products, rupture disks, pressure boundary components, custom welded assemblies, and manufacturing processes is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with welding processes, welding qualifications, or applicable pressure equipment standards is considered an asset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications is required; experience with Microsoft Planner, Excel-based tracking tools, CAD systems, APQP, engineering change control, or ERP systems is considered an asset.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in engineering project coordination, engineering project management, product development, manufacturing, pressure equipment, or a technical industrial environment is preferred.

About ZOOK:

ZOOK is committed to finding pressure relief solutions for our customers that maximize our customers’ productivity and performance while keeping their people safe. ZOOK is a global market leader with over 90 years of manufacturing expertise of high quality metal & graphite rupture disks and other pressure relief products. ZOOK has global locations in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada and Malaysia, with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada and the USA.We are dedicated to investing heavily in the latest technology and production to stay competitive in the marketplace, and are able to offer comprehensive solutions to the selection and sizing of products best suited for each customer application.