Project Director, Multi-Site Project Management in Houston, Texas at Butcher Power Products

Butcher Power Products is a Panelmatic company.

At Panelmatic, we design and manufacture high-performance electrical and control systems that drive efficiency and reliability across the industrial, utility, renewable energy, and data center markets. With over 60 years of experience, our solutions include precision-built control panels and fully integrated control houses. These systems are trusted by customers who demand uptime, safety, and long-term performance.

Now backed by strategic investment, Panelmatic is scaling rapidly to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Our growing national footprint, advanced engineering capabilities, and commitment to quality ensure we deliver smarter, faster, and more resilient solutions at every stage of your project.

We are seeking an accomplished Project Director, Multi-Site Project Management to lead, manage, and strengthen a Project Management organization across multiple locations, supporting a portfolio of customer projects ranging from $300M to $500M annually across multiple strategic customers.

This highly visible leadership role has direct management responsibility for Project Management teams and Project Management leaders across Houston, TX; Sacramento, CA; Youngstown, OH; Brookfield, OH; and Vancouver, Canada, while providing strong matrix leadership and influence across Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Safety, Finance, Estimating, Testing, and Sales.

The Project Director will be accountable for developing Project Management talent, establishing consistent project execution standards, optimizing resource utilization, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on margin, and to the highest quality standards across the portfolio.

The successful candidate will serve as the senior functional leader for Project Management, responsible for organizational performance, staffing, talent development, workload balancing, project governance, and execution excellence. While directly managing the Project Management organization, the Project Director must effectively influence and align functional leaders across Engineering, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Finance, and Sales to achieve customer commitments and business objectives.

The Project Director will also serve as the executive point of contact for assigned strategic customers and customer portfolios, providing leadership oversight, executive communication, escalation management, and relationship development. This role is responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction, maintaining alignment between customer expectations and business objectives, and driving successful project outcomes across the portfolio.

This position may be based in Houston, Texas or Sacramento, California with travel up to 30% required to support project teams, customer engagements, and business operations across all locations.

This role is ideal for a senior leader who is passionate about building high-performing Project Management organizations and establishing consistent execution standards across multiple facilities and customer portfolios.

The Project Director will be responsible for leading Project Managers, developing talent, standardizing best practices, improving Project Management processes, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on margin, and to the highest quality standards.

Working closely with Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Safety, Finance, Estimating, and Sales leadership, you will drive organizational alignment, resource optimization, operational discipline, and execution excellence across the company.

The ideal candidate is a strong organizational leader who understands how to build, lead, and continuously improve a high-performing Project Management function.

They possess the leadership presence to influence executive leadership, the operational discipline to drive execution excellence, and the coaching mindset to develop future Project Management leaders. They understand how to manage competing priorities across multiple locations, customers, and projects while maintaining alignment around common goals, standards, and business objectives.

They are proactive, collaborative, and highly accountable, with a demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and deliver measurable business results. They establish credibility with customers, Project Managers, business leaders, and functional organizations through strong leadership, decisive action, and a relentless focus on execution and customer success.

They are equally comfortable leading executive customer reviews, portfolio reviews, project operating reviews, cross-functional leadership meetings, and organizational development discussions.

Most importantly, they are committed to creating a culture of ownership, execution excellence, customer focus, and continuous improvement throughout the Project Management organization.

The successful candidate will be viewed as a trusted business leader who can align diverse teams, develop talent, improve organizational performance, and drive successful execution across a large, complex portfolio of customer projects.