Project Director, Houston

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 based in Houston, Texas, to lead a portfolio of complex projects ranging from $100M to $500M annually across multiple strategic and key customers. This is a highly visible leadership role with broad responsibility for customer satisfaction, operational execution, financial performance, and portfolio delivery. Travel up to 20% is required to support customer engagements, project reviews, manufacturing facilities, supplier visits, and other business needs.

The Project Director will be accountable for ensuring projects are executed on time, on budget, on margin, and in accordance with all quality, safety, and contractual requirements. This role serves as the senior leader responsible for coordinating the efforts of Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, Production, Quality, Safety, Finance, Estimating, Testing, and Sales to achieve successful customer outcomes.

This position is designed for a senior leader who combines executive presence, strong commercial judgment, and a hands-on operating style. The successful candidate will have the ability to lead strategically while remaining closely engaged in day-to-day execution, proactively identifying risks, removing barriers, and driving accountability across the organization.

You will serve as the central integrator for the full customer portfolio, with direct leadership over the Project Management organization and strong matrix influence across Engineering, Procurement, Production, Quality, Safety, Finance, Estimating, Materials Management, Testing, and Sales. You will be expected to know the projects in detail, anticipate issues before they escalate, communicate effectively with executive leadership and customers, and maintain an active presence in the business, including time on the shop floor, in design reviews, and in execution-focused operating rhythms.

This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in complex, high-accountability environments where customer success, operational excellence, project execution, and financial performance are equally important.

The Project Director will oversee multiple concurrent projects and customer programs, ensuring all functional teams remain aligned to common priorities, schedules, milestones, and delivery commitments. The successful candidate will play a critical role in shaping execution strategy, improving project performance, protecting margin, influencing leadership decisions, and strengthening long-term customer relationships.

You will work closely with senior internal leadership and partner directly with Sales leadership to strengthen customer relationships, provide transparency, and ensure a coordinated, high-confidence experience across the entire portfolio.

The ideal candidate is more than a traditional project leader. This individual takes full ownership of customer outcomes, portfolio performance, and project execution. They establish credibility through deep operational understanding, strong leadership presence, and disciplined execution.

They are proactive rather than reactive, comfortable challenging teams when needed, and effective at bringing diverse functional groups into alignment around a shared objective. They know how to ask the right questions, identify risks early, remove obstacles, and ensure execution remains disciplined from engineering through manufacturing, testing, and delivery.

They are equally comfortable leading executive reviews, customer discussions, strategic planning sessions, project operating reviews, and shop floor engagement. Most importantly, they possess the leadership presence and influence necessary to align diverse functional organizations around a common objective and consistently deliver projects safely, on time, on margin, and to the highest quality standards.