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• Manage low voltage projects from kickoff through closeout
• Plan and track project schedules, budgets, and resources
• Coordinate design, engineering, procurement, and field installation teams
• Serve as primary point of contact for clients, general contractors, and vendors
• Review contracts, drawings, submittals, and change orders
• Ensure compliance with NFPA, NEC, local codes, and project specifications
• Schedule inspections, testing, and system acceptance with AHJs
• Manage project documentation, reporting, and closeout packages
• Identify risks and resolve project issues proactively
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards

• 3+ years of project management experience in low voltage or life safety systems
• Strong working knowledge of Fire Alarm, CCTV, Access Control, and Burglar Alarm systems
• Ability to read and interpret construction documents and contracts
• Experience coordinating multiple trades and stakeholders
• Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills
• Proficiency with project management tools and Microsoft Office
• Valid driver's license and ability to visit job sites

• NICET certification (Fire Alarm Level II–IV)
• PMP or similar project management certification
• Experience with commercial, industrial, or multi-site projects
• Knowledge of IP networking and structured cabling
• Familiarity with platforms such as Honeywell, Lenel, Genetec, Bosch, Axis, or Avigilon

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development and certification support
• Career advancement opportunities

About Us

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $7.6 billion in revenue for 2024, Clayco specializes in the \"art and science of building,\" providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential related building projects.

About LJC

LJC Design & Engineering is a full-service architecture, engineering, and design firm committed to enhancing the quality of the human experience through integrated design. We are a team of high-energy professionals who share a passion for design, a collaborative approach, and a casual culture. We solve challenges by leveraging the collective expertise and ingenuity of the best and brightest minds across development, design, and construction.

The Role We Want You For

As a Design Project Manager – Life Sciences, you will lead multidisciplinary design teams in the delivery of complex, regulated facilities for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and advanced life sciences clients. This role spans the full design lifecycle - from early planning and concept development through construction support - ensuring projects meet operational, regulatory, schedule, and budget expectations.

This is a highly visible, client-facing role within LJC/Clayco's design-build model. You will balance technical understanding, team leadership, and project management rigor while partnering closely with construction, process, and engineering leaders to deliver efficient, compliant, and buildable solutions.

While this role is ideally suited for an experienced design project manager, LJC is also open to senior technical discipline leads (architecture or engineering) who demonstrate strong leadership skills, client presence, and readiness to step into a broader project management role.

The Specifics of the Role

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary architectural and engineering design teams on life sciences projects of varying scale and complexity.
• Plan, track, and manage project scope, budget, schedule, and staffing to ensure successful delivery and profitability.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination between design teams, construction teams, and external consultants to support LJC/Clayco's integrated design-build delivery.
• Lead multidisciplinary coordination reviews to ensure cohesive, well-integrated design solutions, while confirming discipline-level quality control processes are executed.
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, scope changes, and technical challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
• Oversee the development of designs from early planning and concept through detailed design and construction documentation.
• Ensure designs align with GMP, FDA, and other applicable regulatory requirements, engaging subject matter experts as needed.
• Review design deliverables, submittals, RFIs, and change documentation to maintain alignment with design intent and project objectives.
• Participate in site visits and coordination meetings to verify design intent is being executed and constructability concerns are addressed early.
• Serve as the primary design-side contact for assigned projects, maintaining clear, consistent, and proactive communication with clients.
• Lead design presentations, technical reviews, and project update meetings with clients and internal leadership.
• Build trusted client relationships through accountability, responsiveness, and technical credibility.
• Support front-end project efforts by contributing to proposal development, interviews, pursuit strategies, and early project definition.
• Mentor engineers and designers, supporting professional growth and development of future project leaders.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment aligned with Clayco's culture and values.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of LJC's design standards, tools, workflows, and best practices for life sciences projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering or architectural design for GMP, FDA, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Prior experience as a design project manager or demonstrated leadership as a senior technical discipline lead on complex projects.
• Proven experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences facility design.
• Strong understanding of construction methods, process systems, and regulatory-driven design requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage complex coordination efforts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with confidence presenting to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit, or similar design tools preferred.
• Ability to travel to project sites and client facilities as required.
• Resilient, adaptable, and motivated by fast-paced, complex project environments.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Clayco and LJC?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Midwest – Midwest Contractor (#1).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 25 Data Center Builders – Data Center Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

We're looking for someone to join our recruiting team at Advastar—a small, experienced crew based in a sharp office on the Country Club Plaza. We support a wide range of industry leaders, place talent on major construction & engineering projects nationwide, and we are positioning ourselves for growth.

Here's what you're getting:

• $52K -$57K+ base salary + unlimited commission (BOE)
• Full-time, M-F, office-based position (Country Club Plaza)
• Vacation, paid holidays, and healthcare benefits
• Top AI-powered recruiting tech to make your job easier
• Amenities include onsite gym, common spaces, patio, covered parking/entrance, etc.

No experience? No problem—we'll teach you the ropes. What we need is someone who's eager to learn, ready to put in the work, and excited to build a career. If you've got a competitive streak or a knack for getting things done, you'll fit right in.

Responsibilities:

• Source Top Talent: Identify and attract both active and passive candidates through networking, industry-specific databases, social media, job boards, and Advastar's proprietary recruitment processes.
• Understand Client Needs: Partner with clients to gain a deep understanding of their culture, technical requirements, and staffing goals, ensuring perfect candidate matches.
• Screen & Assess: Conduct thorough candidate screenings, interviews, and evaluations to assess skills, experience, and cultural fit for niche roles in Energy, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, and Skilled Trades.
• Deliver Personalized Service: Provide individualized attention to clients and candidates through Advastar's OnePoint ConnectTM approach, acting as the main point of contact throughout the hiring process.
• Manage the Process: Coordinate interviews, facilitate offer negotiations, and handle onboarding logistics with efficiency and urgency.
• Build Networks: Leverage Advastar's deep industry networks and your own relationship-building skills to expand our talent pool and strengthen client partnerships.
• Stay Industry-Savvy: Keep up-to-date on trends, certifications (e.g., NCCCO, NCCER, OSHA), and workforce challenges in our core industries to provide expert guidance.
• Drive Results: Meet and exceed recruitment targets by approaching every search with energy, creativity, and a focus on quality outcomes.

Skills:

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to connect with clients and candidates.
• Strong organizational abilities and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, curious, and team-oriented

EEO

Midland Industries seeks a Vice President of Transformation to drive strategic initiatives at the company partnering with the CEO, leadership team, and Gemspring Capital to support and facilitate execution of the Value Creation Plan. The VPT will report directly to the CEO and will help support and influence organic growth, M&A integration, organizational, technological, and operational excellence initiatives to facilitate successful value creation across the company. This includes strategic, commercial, M&A integration, operational, organization, technology, and financial initiatives. The VPT will partner closely with the Finance organization to ensure all critical financial plan parameters are made transparent, and with Gemspring to ensure key milestones are tracked and completed. He or she will also work closely with business leaders and functional experts within the organization to create transparency and visibility, drive accountability, and deliver results that facilitate better and faster decision-making.

Description

• Spearhead management, setting of milestones and KPIs and partner with senior leadership to support the execution of the value creation plan
• Alternate between being a supportive team player and an individual contributor; partner with initiative owners to track results and accountability while also maintaining workstreams directly and functioning as a team of one
• Support CEO and commercial leadership with strategic planning and development / alignment of functional strategies, goals, and objectives
• Alongside the CRO, support GTM execution by operationalizing revenue tools, ensuring data integrity, system alignment and consistent adoption across sales, marketing, and customer success.
• Maintain KPI framework, dashboards and analytics that provide clear visibility into productivity and GTM effectiveness.
• Support M&A efforts by standing up and leading the Integration Management Office; coordinate cross-functional efforts to meet deal-specific strategic goals and project-manage key integration workstreams with functional leaders in the organization. Align processes, systems and workstreams, while establishing measurement frameworks around business integration.
• Maintain and update the strategic plan for Board-level reporting and progress tracking; incorporate market and org insights into materials
• Prepare updates and insights for board meetings, monthly SteerCo presentations, and ad-hoc touchpoints
• Orchestrate complex processes that involve a large number of discrete tasks; coordinate cross-functional initiatives
• Validate all efforts/initiatives with facts, data and independent analysis; provide valued processes and tools
• Act as the internal face of transformation, set the tone, spur enthusiasm; challenge current processes and support the team; help leaders accelerate execution; provide structure and consistency to internal discussions
• Partner cross-functionally with business leaders to provide analytical support for ad-hoc tasks and special projects across key functions and initiatives

QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Experience

• BS in Business, Engineering or similar; MBA preferred but not required
• 8+ years demonstrated leadership experience in transformation programs, project management offices, cross-functional projects, and/or value-creation initiatives
• Minimum five years management consulting, corporate strategy, or equivalent transformation leadership experience
• Experience within industrial and/or distribution businesses preferred but not required
• Track record building relationships with and receiving support from Boards, CEOs, and top management; ability to manage a broad range of stakeholders
• Demonstrated history of driving strategic initiatives across functions
• Primary areas of experience: Commercial excellence and M&A integration
• Secondary areas of experience: Operational and IT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Self-starter with active intellectual curiosity and sense of ownership; bias toward action is paramount
• Strong business and financial acumen; ability to produce clear analysis, documents, presentations, and plans
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity; org savvy; proven ability to work across a diverse and complex global company
• Ability to influence important internal and external stakeholders; ability to engage people with data (how to develop, utilize, and make decisions based on data)
• Demonstrated strategic planning process management/facilitation experience
• High emotional intelligence; strong interpersonal skills; inspire and leverage the efforts of a range of individual talents
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; highly responsive, thorough, and persistent
• Highly organized; naturally motivated and driven

Company Overview: $150 - 200M Revenue

Midland Industries is an industrial products company headquartered in Kansas City, MO. The Company is a value-added distributor and manufacturer of fittings, valves, clamps, hoses, and adjacent products into a vast array of industrial applications across various end markets including manufacturing, transportation, plumbing, HVAC, construction, utilities, fluid power, and more. More than just a parts supplier, the Company serves as a crucial supply chain partner for mission-critical and hard-to-source niche products with low cost-to-purchase but high cost-of-failure.Customers count on Midland for its SKU breadth, technical sales acumen, product innovation, and fast delivery times from one of 11 facilities nationwide.

The Company has completed eight acquisitions since 2017 and has developed a playbook that will facilitate increased pace of M&A execution with the backing of new owners and fresh capital. Additionally, the Company developed and moved into a brand new, state-of-the-art distribution facility and office space near Overland Park in August 2023 that has substantial excess capacity for incremental growth.

Midland was acquired in September 2023 by Gemspring Capital, a leading middle market private equity firm with $5 billion in assets under management. The Company is embarking on an aggressive M&A strategy to acquire other distribution and manufacturing businesses to continue driving scale and cross-sell opportunities, as well as to expand its product offering, end market exposure, and geographic footprint.

Midland Industries: Capital: Equal Opportunity Employer

We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Research Technician II — Hall Lab

Are you fascinated by the bizarre world of small, wiggly, often regenerative invertebrates?

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is seeking a Research Technician II to join the Hall Lab.

Our lab is motivated by the simple premise that we shouldn't be limited to studying biology only in established "model" organisms. We are developing a suite of molecular and imaging tools to enable genetic engineering in diverse emerging model organisms, with the goal of understanding how stem cells support regeneration across the tree of life.

Roles & Responsibilities

The selected candidate will work closely with the PI to support the lab's research efforts by:

• Developing and refining techniques to maintain and expand an array of emerging model invertebrates (with a strong emphasis on flatworms).
• Contributing to molecular cloning that support transgenesis and gene editing strategy development.
• Performing experiments to characterize regeneration, life history traits, and phenotype variation across species.
• Maintaining thorough documentation (protocols, experimental records, colony/line tracking) and contributing to lab organization and best practices.

The ideal candidate is curious, creative, and resilient in the face of experimental setbacks. They work independently when needed, communicate clearly, and consistently incorporate feedback to improve.

What You'll Be Doing

• Animal husbandry to maintain several species of emerging model flatworms and related invertebrates.
• Working with the Invertebrate Culture Facility to develop and implement more automated, standardized husbandry workflows.
• Characterizing life-cycle traits and regenerative capabilities across diverse flatworm species (including phenotyping with immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, and performing genetic perturbations with CRISPR and RNAi).
• Performing molecular cloning using techniques such as bacterial transformation, minipreps, PCR, gel electrophoresis, restriction digestion, Golden Gate assembly, and Gibson assembly.

What We Offer

• Close mentorship and support to help you meet your scientific and professional goals.
• The opportunity to work with unusual and exciting emerging model organisms in the field of regenerative biology.
• The opportunity to work closely with our fantastic technology centers while gaining important leadership skills.
• Professional development opportunities (lab meetings, institute seminars, and conference attendance as appropriate).
• Competitive compensation and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 403(b)), and relocation assistance as applicable.
• Campus perks including café access, and fitness facilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in a relevant field (e.g., Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Synthetic Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Biology, Ecology, Microbiology, or related discipline).
• 3+ years of laboratory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with molecular biology and/or genetics (cloning, PCR, gel electrophoresis, etc.).
• Comfort with careful organization and recordkeeping (tracking cloning projects, animal lines, and experimental details).
• Familiarity with sequence/plasmid design tools (e.g., Geneious, Benchling, SnapGene).
• Imaging experience (widefield fluorescence, confocal, or similar).
• Strong attention to detail and observational skill (e.g., recognizing "happy worms," regeneration phenotypes, and subtle health changes).
• A love and excitement for the organisms we work with.

How to Apply

Please compile the following materials into a single PDF and name the file using the format:

LastName_2026_HallLab_RTechII.pdf

Submit applications to:

Application materials:

• Cover letter
• Statement of career goals and research interests (1 page max)
• Summary of prior research experience
• CV
• Unofficial college transcripts
• Contact information for up to three professional references

We look forward to reviewing your application!

Lead complex construction projects from concept to completion, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contractors to drive results and deliver exceptional builds. If you're a proactive leader with a passion for construction excellence, we want to hear from you.

Company Benefits:

• 13 paid holidays
• Vacation and sick pay
• PPE provided along with annual allowance for boots and prescription safety glasses
• Work shirts provided by company
• Annual appreciation package
• Early performance evaluation opportunities
• Competitive benefits (medical/dental/vision)
• 401k + match
• Company paid life insurance and disability
• Employee assistance program
• Career development opportunities

Responsibilities:

• Planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and evaluating construction projects (HVAC/Refrigeration & Mechanical projects) from start to finish according to schedule, specifications, and budget.
• Preparing and submitting construction project budget estimates, critical path schedules, and quality control programs.
• Planning and preparing construction schedules and milestones, and monitoring progress against established schedules.
• Preparing contracts and negotiating revisions, changes, and additions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Planning, coordinating, and managing effectively all Foremen, material, and equipment to meet the established budget, schedule, and scope of the projects.
• Preparing progress reports and issuing reports to clients as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to develop and maintain detailed MS Project schedules (startup-task durations, resource allocations, labor costs, etc.).
• Must be able to maintain multiple complex projects in all varying phases of construction at the same time.
• 2-5 years in industrial piping or Ammonia Refrigeration as a Project Manager.
• Successfully completed multiple large-scale industrial Piping and Ammonia Refrigeration projects for reputable contractors.
• Coaching, mentoring, and teaching project teams.
• Advanced financial management and forecasting experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; must be detail-oriented, self-sufficient, and self-motivated.
• Exceptional planning and organizing skills with the ability to manage a number of projects

Company Profile:

CIMCO specializes in the engineering, design, manufacture, installation and service of complex thermal building solutions for industrial, process cooling and recreational refrigeration and mechanical systems. For more than 100 years, CIMCO's leadership and unparalleled research, development and manufacturing programs has put us at the forefront of industry advancements and technological breakthroughs. Our professional engineers, technicians and designers apply innovative state-of-the-art equipment and refrigerants to develop systems that meet even the most complex thermal challenges.

CIMCO is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. Together, we embrace diversity of thought, experience, and perspective, as we combine our unique skills and capabilities to drive successful outcomes for all stakeholders. As an equal opportunity employer, CIMCO provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.