Project Engineer

About the role

The Project Engineer is the engineering team leader managing all technical activities on assigned projects while following company procedures. Work closely with project manager, project planner, sub-contract manager, project design lead, and functional department engineers to ensure a project is engineered to building codes, industry codes & standards, and contract specifications.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and monitor projects; develop scope of work; partner with departments and sub-contractors; facilitate construction plans and documents with constructors.
• Ensure technical accuracy and on-time completion of project technical documents, RFQ's for material and equipment, conformed contract purchase documents, commissioning procedures, O&M Manuals, acceptance test procedures, and reports.
• Initiate and monitor the DMS system including the RFI's, NCR's, etc.
• Coordinate project's engineering effort ensuring technical compliance with project specifications and codes.
• Serve as primary company engineering representative to clients on technical issues.
• Conduct and participate in meetings with clients, consulting engineers, sub-contract engineers, and major equipment & fabricator suppliers to provide technical leadership.
• Secure adequate technical resources to execute a project's engineering requirements.
• Partner with project team and engineering department to develop the project schedule / design plan.
• Work with the project team to execute the contract in accordance with the schedule, budget, scope, engineering design plans, and engineering resources.
• Manage the engineering project hours and scheduled activities, and report progress and problems.
• Manage and coordinate engineering subcontractors, including the development of the project schedule, time receipt of deliverables.
• Prepare reports, correspondence, agreements, graphs, tables, and presentations, as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Experience working in an engineering lead design position on fossil fuel utility power plants / power projects.
• Experience in an engineering manager's role or a design/build project coordination environment with background in large power projects preferred.
• Proficiency in use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and knowledge of Primavera (P6v7).

Skills

• Leadership Skills: An individual with leadership presence who works well in a team environment. The successful candidate must be assertive, self-confident, and lead projects by example.
• Performance Driven: Is a self-motivated leader, energetic, creative, resourceful, and a hands-on individual with a service orientation and a bias for action. Someone who can commit himself/herself fully to the job.
• Functional Skills: Has a confident breadth of experience with the ability to manage multiple engineering disciplines and resources in a matrix organization. Effective communicator who can concisely state a point of view.

Pay

The range for this role is: 80,000 - 180,000