Engineering, construction, maintenance and defense manufacturing contractor
Day & Zimmermann combines plant engineering and construction with munitions production, and the current hiring tilt toward manufacturing, engineering and operations points to defense production as the active growth front. The stack mixes legacy SAP R/3 and Winshuttle with industrial SCADA/HMI and Primavera P6 scheduling, while new AI tooling like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cursor appears alongside an ongoing SAP adoption push.
Notable leadership hires: Program Director
Day & Zimmermann is a privately held company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1901. It operates across construction and engineering, operations and maintenance, staffing, and security and defense work. The company employs more than 10,001 people across the United States. Its engineering side relies on AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, ETAP and Oracle Primavera for project design and scheduling. Defense-related work includes ammunition production programs and nuclear project support.
Day & Zimmermann runs SAP ERP and SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Salesforce and Power BI, plus engineering tools like AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, ETAP and Primavera P6, and industrial SCADA/HMI systems.
Yes, hiring is accelerating in the United States, concentrated in manufacturing, engineering, operations and construction, mostly at mid and senior levels, with a Program Director leadership opening.
Job posts point to ammunition data card development, a nuclear project in New Jersey, scrap reduction through automation, production line uptime improvements and new capital projects.
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