Job Description

Job Summary

CECO Environmental is a global leader in providing sustainable solutions for industrial air, water, and energy transition. Since 1966, we’ve been addressing the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our mission is to protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment, making a tangible impact across industries like renewable energy, semiconductor manufacturing, power generation, and water treatment. As a purpose-driven company, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity, ensuring that every project we undertake creates lasting positive change. At CECO, you’ll be part of a growing, dynamic team committed to a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable future.

We are proud to share that CECO was named one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Companies for 2025 and that Forbes recognized CECO as one of America’s Most Successful Small‑Cap Companies for 2026, marking our third consecutive year on the Forbes list. CECO Environmental is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ under the ticker CECO, reflecting our strong growth, financial performance, and commitment to delivering value to shareholders.

As part of the CECO Environmental family of brands, Peerless Separation & Filtration plays a critical role in delivering specialized water solutions that protect both people and the environment. By joining our team, you’ll contribute to our shared mission of protecting global industrial operations and shaping the future of environmental stewardship.

The Sr Manager, ASW Projects is responsible for leading the execution of customer projects across the North American Separation Filtration platform. This role provides leadership for Project Management, Engineering, and Procurement resources to ensure projects are executed safely, efficiently, profitably, and in accordance with customer, quality, and technical requirements.

The Sr Manager, ASW Projects works closely with customers, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and global engineering teams to successfully convert project backlog into revenue while meeting delivery commitments. This role drives project execution excellence through effective resource planning, schedule management, risk mitigation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.

The position provides leadership, coaching, and development for a team comprised primarily of project managers, engineers, procurement professionals, and other individual contributors. The Sr Manager leads by example, promotes accountability, and fosters a culture focused on customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Your Responsibilities Will Be:

Project Leadership & Execution

• Leads execution of customer projects from order release through final delivery, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, budget, quality, and customer requirements.• Establishes priorities, workflows, and performance expectations across Project Management, Engineering, and Procurement functions.• Effectively allocates resources across multiple projects within a matrixed organization.• Identifies and mitigates project risks to support successful project outcomes and customer satisfaction.• Drives accountability for project milestones, deliverables, financial performance, and operational metrics.• Monitors project status and provides regular updates to leadership regarding schedule, cost, resource requirements, risks, and opportunities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partners with Manufacturing, Fabrication, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain teams to ensure alignment of project requirements, schedules, and customer commitments.• Serves as a key liaison between project teams and manufacturing operations to support successful execution and delivery.• Collaborates with global engineering teams to optimize resource utilization and execution effectiveness.• Supports coordination between Sales, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, and Customers to facilitate successful project delivery.• Engages directly with customers to address project requirements, schedules, issue resolution, and overall project performance.

Operational Excellence

• Establishes and maintains project management processes, standards, and best practices that support consistency and operational excellence.• Leads continuous improvement initiatives that improve project execution, communication, efficiency, quality, and profitability.• Ensures compliance with company policies, customer requirements, ISO-9001 quality standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.• Develops and maintains operational processes to support risk mitigation and improved execution performance.• Brings practical leadership and best practices that strengthen organizational capability and project performance.

Team Leadership

• Leads, coaches, mentors, and develops project management, engineering, procurement, and related project personnel.• Conducts workforce planning activities in partnership with leadership to support resource needs and business growth.• Fosters a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused work environment.• Supports employee engagement, professional development, performance management, and succession planning activities.• Promotes teamwork and collaboration across functions and geographic locations.

Financial & Business Performance

• Oversees project-related expenditures including external contractors, fabricators, major components, engineering support, and procurement activities to support project profitability.• Supports achievement of revenue, margin, and backlog conversion objectives.• Provides leadership with project execution insights, operational recommendations, and business performance indicators.• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations Management, or a related discipline and ten (10) or more years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ten (10+) years of experience within industrial, manufacturing, engineered-to-order, or project-based business environments.• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional project teams and executing complex customer projects.• Experience managing project schedules, resource planning, budgets, customer deliverables, and project profitability.• Strong customer relationship management and stakeholder engagement experience.• Demonstrated success driving continuous improvement and organizational change initiatives.• Experience working with globally distributed teams and resources preferred.• Experience within manufacturing, engineering design, ASME Pressure Vessel Code, ISO-9001 quality systems, welding standards, and/or the oil & gas, energy, industrial, or process equipment industries preferred.

Licensing/Certifications:

• None required.• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.• Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) certification preferred.

Travel Requirements:

• Travel is required as business needs dictate, including the ability to travel domestically and internationally, and across borders as required.

ADA Requirements:

Positions in this function typically require typing, sitting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

• Concentrated mental and/or visual attention is required.• Work involves performing complex tasks requiring accuracy, judgment, and sustained attention.• Work is generally performed under normal office conditions.• Visits to manufacturing facilities, suppliers, customers, and project sites may be required to support project execution activities.• Compliance with company attendance standards is required.

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects. Work primarily involves sitting, with occasional standing and walking.

ABOUT US CECO’s Commitment to Our People 

At CECO, our people are at the center of everything we do. Whether you’re a professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring opportunities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with CECO.  ABOUT CECO CECO Environmental is a leading environmentally focused, diversified industrial company whose solutions protect people, the environment, and industrial equipment across the globe, serving a broad landscape of industrial air, industrial water and energy transition markets. 

We serve these markets and our global customers through our key business segments: Engineered Systems and Industrial Process Solutions. Learn more about CECO by visiting About Us. 

Equal Opportunity Employer CECO is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.  Accessibility Assistance or Accommodation If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, please contact: hr@OneCeco.com.  

Note:The above job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Specific responsibilities may change to meet business needs.This job description represents only the primary areas of responsibility; specific assignments will vary based on business needs.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.