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Project Specialist roles on OPT typically fall under business operations, program management, or consulting, and they qualify as specialty occupation positions when they require a relevant bachelor's degree. Your 12-month OPT window starts on your employment start date, so securing a role before graduation keeps your timeline intact.
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SF Job Req ID: 20264
Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job title: Project Specialist
Location: Enon, Ohio
About us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
SEEPEX is a leading global specialist in progressing cavity pump technology, control systems, and digital solutions. Operating as a premier brand within the Compression Flow Technologies segment of Ingersoll Rand Company, we deliver modular, highly engineered fluid-handling infrastructure to municipal wastewater, chemical processing, food & beverage, and energy sectors worldwide. Guided by a shared culture of innovation, operational excellence, and entrepreneurial accountability, we empower our teams to solve complex industrial fluid-handling challenges.
Job Overview:
The Project Specialist leads cross-functional teams to execute high-complexity, Engineered-to-Order (ETO) progressing cavity pump systems from contract award through final delivery and site testing. This role serves as the primary commercial and technical nexus between external corporate clients and internal design engineering, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, and quality assurance divisions. The ideal candidate will safeguard project margin, delivery velocity, specification alignment, and standard compliance across every milestone.
Responsibilities:
- Project Lifecycle Management: Direct all execution stages for custom progressive cavity pump assemblies, starting at technical handover through mechanical fabrication, testing, and ultimate customer delivery.
- Technical Specifications Review: Audit engineered Bills of Materials (BOM), system schematics, and material selections against demanding application environments and client standards.
- Testing & Compliance Validation: Coordinate Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), including hydrostatic, performance, NPSH testing, and material traceability audits, ensuring validation against API 676 or contract provisions.
- Financial Oversight: Manage dynamic cost architectures, track scope creeping variations, process precise change orders, and preserve targeted gross margins for every project package.
- Risk Mitigation Profiles: Mitigate scheduling gaps, supplier lead-time overruns, and mechanical conflicts through proactive resource forecasting and root-cause analytical strategies.
Requirements
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent technical manufacturing discipline.
- Professional Experience: 2+ years of active project management experience directly inside heavy industrial environments, specifically focused on rotating machinery, positive displacement pumps, or complex fluid systems.
- Systems Competency: Advanced proficiency deploying enterprise tracking platforms (e.g., SAP, Microsoft Project, or JIRA).
Preferences:
- Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred but not required.
- Industry Standards Literacy: Deep understanding of API 676, Hydraulic Institute standards, elastomer fluid-compatibility mechanics.
- Soft Skills: Exceptional command-oriented communication, professional negotiating capabilities, and an ability to navigate matrixed multinational corporate structures successfully.
Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements:
- Fully site based in Enon, OH with minimal travel expected.
Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is $87,000-$105,000. The pay range considers a wide range of factors that include a candidate’s skills; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and geographic location.
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
At SEEPEX, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
BH Job ID: 5080
SF Job Req ID: 20264
Ingersoll Rand is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Job title: Project Specialist
Location: Enon, Ohio
About us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
SEEPEX is a leading global specialist in progressing cavity pump technology, control systems, and digital solutions. Operating as a premier brand within the Compression Flow Technologies segment of Ingersoll Rand Company, we deliver modular, highly engineered fluid-handling infrastructure to municipal wastewater, chemical processing, food & beverage, and energy sectors worldwide. Guided by a shared culture of innovation, operational excellence, and entrepreneurial accountability, we empower our teams to solve complex industrial fluid-handling challenges.
Job Overview:
The Project Specialist leads cross-functional teams to execute high-complexity, Engineered-to-Order (ETO) progressing cavity pump systems from contract award through final delivery and site testing. This role serves as the primary commercial and technical nexus between external corporate clients and internal design engineering, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, and quality assurance divisions. The ideal candidate will safeguard project margin, delivery velocity, specification alignment, and standard compliance across every milestone.
Responsibilities:
- Project Lifecycle Management: Direct all execution stages for custom progressive cavity pump assemblies, starting at technical handover through mechanical fabrication, testing, and ultimate customer delivery.
- Technical Specifications Review: Audit engineered Bills of Materials (BOM), system schematics, and material selections against demanding application environments and client standards.
- Testing & Compliance Validation: Coordinate Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), including hydrostatic, performance, NPSH testing, and material traceability audits, ensuring validation against API 676 or contract provisions.
- Financial Oversight: Manage dynamic cost architectures, track scope creeping variations, process precise change orders, and preserve targeted gross margins for every project package.
- Risk Mitigation Profiles: Mitigate scheduling gaps, supplier lead-time overruns, and mechanical conflicts through proactive resource forecasting and root-cause analytical strategies.
Requirements
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent technical manufacturing discipline.
- Professional Experience: 2+ years of active project management experience directly inside heavy industrial environments, specifically focused on rotating machinery, positive displacement pumps, or complex fluid systems.
- Systems Competency: Advanced proficiency deploying enterprise tracking platforms (e.g., SAP, Microsoft Project, or JIRA).
Preferences:
- Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred but not required.
- Industry Standards Literacy: Deep understanding of API 676, Hydraulic Institute standards, elastomer fluid-compatibility mechanics.
- Soft Skills: Exceptional command-oriented communication, professional negotiating capabilities, and an ability to navigate matrixed multinational corporate structures successfully.
Travel & Work Arrangements/Requirements:
- Fully site based in Enon, OH with minimal travel expected.
Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is $87,000-$105,000. The pay range considers a wide range of factors that include a candidate’s skills; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and geographic location.
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
At SEEPEX, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Project Specialist
Target employers with active H-1B sponsorship history
Companies that have sponsored H-1B workers before are far more likely to do it again. Prioritizing these employers from the start means your OPT role is more likely to convert into long-term sponsorship before your 12 months expire.
Clarify your OPT authorization timeline upfront
Bring up your OPT status early in the interview process, not at the offer stage. Most hiring managers appreciate transparency, and it filters out employers who won't sponsor before you invest time in multi-round interviews.
Quantify project outcomes on your resume
Project Specialists are evaluated on delivery. Showing measurable results, like reduced timelines, cost savings, or stakeholder satisfaction rates, makes your application stand out and demonstrates the kind of value employers find worth sponsoring long-term.
Pursue PMP or CAPM certification if you're pre-graduation
Holding or actively pursuing a recognized project management credential signals professional seriousness. Many employers equate certification with reduced onboarding costs, which strengthens the business case for sponsoring you after OPT.
Negotiate a start date that aligns with your EAD card
You cannot legally begin work until your Employment Authorization Document is in hand and your start date matches or follows the date printed on it. Confirm the exact date with your DSO before accepting any offer.
Project Specialist OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Project Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for OPT and H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the role is defined. A Project Specialist position qualifies as a specialty occupation when the employer requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field, such as business administration, engineering, or information systems. Generic job postings that say 'any degree' or list no degree requirement can create problems during H-1B adjudication. Review the job description carefully before applying.
Can I work as a Project Specialist on OPT while my H-1B is pending?
Yes, if your employer files an H-1B petition before your OPT expires and you receive a timely filed receipt notice, cap-gap protection extends your OPT work authorization automatically through September 30 of that year. If your H-1B is selected in the lottery and approved, your status changes on October 1. Confirm your specific dates with your designated school official.
What should I report to my DSO when I start a Project Specialist job on OPT?
You must report your employer name, employer address, job title, and start date to your DSO within 10 days of starting work. The DSO then updates your SEVIS record. Failing to report on time is a common compliance mistake that can jeopardize your status. Keep a copy of your employment offer letter to reference when submitting this information.
Where can I find Project Specialist jobs that are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students, so every job listed is relevant to your work authorization status. Searching there filters out the noise of general job boards where OPT eligibility is rarely stated clearly. You can browse Project Specialist openings by industry, location, and employer sponsorship history in one place.
Does Project Specialist work on OPT count toward STEM OPT extension eligibility?
Only if your degree is on the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List and the employer is enrolled in E-Verify. Project management and operations roles can qualify under STEM OPT when the underlying degree is in a qualifying field like information technology, industrial engineering, or management information systems. Confirm your degree's CIP code with your international student office before applying for the extension.