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Engineering Project Manager

Darling Ingredients Inc.

Cold Spring, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$7.25/hr
Location
Cold Spring, KY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Engineering Project Manager leads capital projects across company plants from concept and design through installation, collaborating with management, operations, controls, CAD, construction teams, contractors, and vendors. The role develops project scopes and cost estimates, specifies process equipment, oversees plant layouts and engineering documents, and directs CAD design. A bachelor's degree is required; mechanical engineering is strongly preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project ManagementEquipment SpecificationCost EstimationPlant LayoutsP&IDsPFDsCADAutoCADInventorChange ManagementConcrete FoundationsStructural SteelWork EthicInitiativeOrganizationTime ManagementWritten CommunicationOral CommunicationMS OfficeComputer SkillsLifting

Qualifications

5+ Years Engineering ExperienceBachelor's DegreeMechanical Engineering

Full job description

Experience Required

5 - 20 years

Minimum Education Required

Bachelor's Degree

Compensation

$7.25 / hourly

Hours Per Week

40

Number Of Positions

1

Work Schedule and Shift Requirements

First (Day)

Job Description

We're one of the world's leading practitioners of circularity, transforming materials from the animal agriculture and food industries into valuable ingredients. Ingredients that nourish people, feed animals and crops, and fuel the world with renewable energy.

This position is responsible for concept, design, and capital budget for projects across all plants in the company. This requires close collaboration with management, operations, controls, CAD, and construction teams. Projects will be followed through from planning to execution.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Drives projects independently from initial concept through to the installation phase, executing handoffs to internal construction teams.

Size, select, and specify critical process equipment including rendering machinery, pumps, fans, conveyors, air scrubbing equipment, heat exchangers, and steam boilers.

Generates comprehensive project scope documents and highly accurate cost estimates for capital expenditure submissions.

Oversees plant layouts and generate essential engineering documents, including P&IDs, PFDs, heat and mass balances, and detailed equipment, motor, and instrumentation lists.

Directs and guide the CAD design team. Build highly productive, collaborative relationships with internal controls and construction teams, as well as external contractors and vendors.

Engineers technical solutions to overcome process and installation obstacles, whether adapting a standard chemical scrubber or designing a completely novel plant workflow.

This job will not have direct supervisory responsibilities, but will work closely with corporate management and division management when performing duties.

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor of science degree from an accredited college - mechanical engineering strongly preferred.

5+ years of experience in an engineering role involving equipment, buildings, machinery, process piping, cooling systems, combustion systems, pneumatics, power distribution, PLCs, drives, and other systems in a heavy manufacturing environment, rendering, or food industry experience preferred

High proficiency in CAD software, preferably AutoCAD and Inventor.

Strong work ethic and high degree of initiative.

Highly organized with superior time management.

Exceptional written and oral communication skills to bridge the gap between engineering, construction, and management

Above average computer skills in a networked environment with knowledge of MS Office products

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in change management and in working across functional lines and organizations is ideal

Background in concrete foundations and structural steel a plus

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Position is based in an office environment

Frequently travels to off-site locations is required.

Requires prolonged sitting and movement throughout office/work locations, as well as occasional use of computers and office equipment.

Must occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and climb or balance.

Must be able to communicate effectively and identify potential workplace hazards.

Requires the ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs.

Darling Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to r ace, color, creed, r eligion, age, pregnancy, s ex, s exual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Know Your Rights: If you would like more information, please click on the link and paste into your browser: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster of this job.

Job Type

Full time

Benefits Offered

Not specified

Veteran Preference

No

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

1354

How this job compares

Set against the 23,231 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$7.25/hr
  • Kentucky median$7/hr37 hourly ranges
  • US median$46–60/hr899 hourly ranges

This rate, $7.25/hr, is close to the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Project Manager hourly ranges in Kentucky.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 261 open Project Manager jobs in Kentucky and 23,231 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Kentucky
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (20,160 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 12,899 of the 23,231 open Project Manager jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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