Project Engineer
About the role
The Project Engineer (PE) serves as the technical lead and subject matter expert, supporting multiple accounts with high-level engineering oversight. This position enhances the traditional Project Engineer role by incorporating leadership, presales collaboration, and ownership across the full project lifecycle—design, implementation, and closeout. The PE plays a key role in both engineering execution and customer engagement. They guide technical decisions, ensure quality and consistency, assist with project scoping and quoting, and manage escalations throughout the delivery process. By bridging engineering, project management, and sales teams, the PE helps drive successful outcomes for both the company and its clients.
About us: Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 21,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical authority within the assigned project; provide mentorship and direction while working alongside Project Engineers, Project Coordinators and Implementation Specialists ensuring standardization, quality, and efficiency; act as the senior escalation point for complex design or implementation challenges (3rd‑level escalations).
- Project Lifecycle Ownership:
- Design Phase: Lead the development of Level of Effort (LOE) program designs; review