Project Manager - Engineering

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. 

Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Project Manager - Engineering – Pico Rivera, CA (Hybrid)

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

At Allegion, we are driven by a bold vision: redefining safety while empowering our employees to thrive. When you join our team, you become part of a culture that values innovation, purpose, and excellence. This role offers the benefits of our dynamic hybrid work model—combining in-person collaboration for meaningful moments with the flexibility of remote work. Since hybrid arrangements can vary based on the needs of the individual, team and business, your talent acquisition partner will provide specific hybrid details about this role.

We are committed to fostering a healthy work-life balance and building meaningful connections, ensuring you have the tools, resources, and support needed to excel in any environment. Together, we’ll unlock your potential and create a lasting impact.

While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the hybrid schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion.

Job Summary:

Project Manager - Engineering

As the Project Manager, you will utilize your excellent communication skills to manage custom steel door assembly jobs, serving as the customer’s primary point of contact throughout the project execution phase. You will oversee a wide range of highly specialized products, including acoustic, RF, bullet, blast, forced entry, and hurricane doors. While primarily responsible for a specific territory or region, you will also act as a collaborative team player, backing up peers and assisting in the training of Assistant Project Managers. You will work closely with CAD design engineers to deliver submittals, revisions, and manufacturing releases that exceed customer expectations.

What You Will Do:

• End-to-End Project Control: Manage the entire lifecycle of each project once the contract is awarded.

• Engineering Coordination: Direct engineering schedules and prioritize projects for the resubmittal of customer-facing documents. Collaborate with and direct CAD design engineers to deliver required engineering documentation.

• Customer Relationship Management: Respond to customer requests for changes and information in a timely manner. Coordinate cross-functional resolution calls and escalate issues when necessary to maintain excellent relationships.

• Revenue & Change Management: Receive, interpret, and communicate revisions or requests for change with internal teams and the client. Control potential change orders to capture maximum revenue and generate additional revenue by identifying expedite opportunities.

• Communication & Logistics: Notify customers of any schedule impacts (both in and out of our control), coordinate shipment releases with customers and the logistics group, and lead large-scale kick-off meetings with key stakeholders to ensure the smooth execution of highly complex jobs.

• Financial Tracking: Collect and reconcile any prepayments and deposits required up to the time of the final invoice.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Experience: A minimum of three (3) years of project management experience in a related steel door/frame, manufacturing, construction, or similar environment.

• High School or GED Diploma required

• Project Management Skills: Proven track record in scheduling and managing multiple competing projects/jobs with lifecycles ranging from several weeks to several months.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to work seamlessly across departments to deliver projects on time and to the customers' exact expectations.

• Attention to Detail: Carefully monitors processes, organizes systems of records, and ensures accuracy in documentation and data.

• Communication and Influence: Listens with objectivity, checks for understanding, and effectively transfers thoughts and ideas to influence others or gain their support.

• Conflict Management: Uses active listening techniques to reduce conflict. Stays objective and fair in assessing different points of view.

• Interpersonal Skills: Builds and maintains trusting relationships with associates and customers. Demonstrates a direct and diplomatic approach in dealing with others.

• Adaptability / Flexibility: Quickly adjusts to new, different, or changing requirements and maintains composure under pressure.

• Analytical Skills: Identifies and defines problems, determines probable causes, suggests solutions, and is skilled at recognizing connections and links.

• Decisiveness / Judgment: Demonstrates logic, rationality, and objectivity in decision-making. Analyzes alternate solutions and potential outcomes.

• Accountability: Holds self, others, and other departments accountable for results. Is persistent and follows through on commitments.

• Negotiating / Selling: Accurately and effectively identifies customer needs; displays knowledge of relevant products, services, and processes to develop solutions.

• Ownership: Takes ownership of work and responsibility for results, whether positive or negative.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: 

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.

• · You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.

• · You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!

• · You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the second year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.

What You’ll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”

• Competitive Paid Time Off

• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, which currently offers a 6% company match and no vesting period

• Health Savings Accounts – Tax-advantaged savings account used for healthcare expenses

• Flexible Spending Accounts – Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare and/or dependent daycare expenses

• Disability Insurance –Short-Term and Long-Term coverage, paid for by Allegion, provides income replacement for illness or injury

• Life Insurance – Term life coverage with the option to purchase supplemental coverage

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Voluntary Wellness Program – Simply complete wellness activities and earn monetary rewards

• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work

• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself”

• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths assessment & coaching

Compensation: This range is provided by Allegion. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

• The expected Base Salary Range: $65,000 - $80,000.  The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.

• This is a salaried, non‑exempt position and is eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable federal and state law.

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Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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