Project Manager - Brainerd, MN
Interstates
| Company | Interstates |
| Category | Operations & Admin |
| Location | Brainerd |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
Take Charge of Your Career at Interstates
At Interstates, we don’t just show up to work, we show up for each other. From our headquarters in Iowa to job sites across the country, we’re doing award-winning electrical, controls, automation, and OT work that powers industrial facilities for clients here in the U.S. and around the world. Whether you’re bending conduit, wiring panels, writing code, supporting projects, or helping things run behind the scenes, you’ll be part of a crew that works hard, shares laughs, and takes pride in doing quality work. We believe in building strong teams, doing the right thing, and making a difference in the communities where we live. If you want to grow and do meaningful work, you’ll feel at home here.
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with our Brainerd, MN Office to lead and coordinate client-facing project delivery activities. This role will oversee project execution to ensure alignment with company objectives related to cost control, safety, quality, client satisfaction, and timely delivery. The ideal candidate will be a strategic leader who can organize and supervise teams to meet project goals efficiently.
At Interstates, our success starts with yours.
Interstates Describes Its Culture as Family-Like
Caring co-workers treat each other like family
Be treated like an individual, not just a number
Flexible schedules allow you to focus on your personal life as well as work life
Lunch gatherings and social activities promotes fun and camaraderie
Support charities and your community through events sponsored and hosted by Interstates
Our Why:
Providing opportunities for our people
Making a difference with our clients
Pursuing a better way
Sound to good to be true? Put in your application today, and allow Interstates to prove to you why we are an Industry Leader in more ways than one.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Review and fully understand the project’s agreement/contract, specifications, clarification and exceptions, scope of work, budgets, and allowances prior to commencement
Monitors project progress information and cost of labor, cost of material, and productivity for project control and analyze each week
Analyze and investigate new techniques for fabrication and installation of work and possibilities for value engineering and determine the most efficient and effective project delivery methods and procedures and assist project/site leader in ensuring implementation
Provide project/site leader and operations manager with all required data and bid information (budgets/strategies) and back-up support to properly construct the project on time and within budget
Responsible for analysis, verification, correctness of field production reports for progress billings and monitoring of detail job cost, cost effectiveness, and profitability of job
Advise estimating department and other related departments of any discrepancies with bid/budgets and follow up with addressing the required solution.
Develop and then update at least monthly the overall schedule. Review schedules with the leader of each project including the required timetables for work performed by subcontractors
Direct the coordination of project delivery activities with the project/site leader and the subcontractor’s work crew as required
Assist project/site leader with project conflicts and situations
Responsible for discussion and resolution with project/site leader, operating manager, and estimator of potential problems, changes in the work, extra work, productivity, health and safety issues, impacts and/or revision to the project schedule as needed
Responsible for approving invoices (quantities and prices) of material, people, vendors, subcontractors, rentals, etc., for payment
Coordinate and process change orders with clients/general contractor